In humanitarian work, it’s tempting to measure success by short-term wins: how many meals were served, how many shoes were handed out, how many tents were raised.  These are critical acts of mercy, and they meet very real needs.  But when crisis stretches into decades, as it has for refugees in the Nyarugusu camp of western Tanzania, short-term relief cannot carry the full weight of human dignity.

At Equipping Hope International, a Christian nonprofit working in Tanzania, we believe in more than relief.  We believe in restoration.  We believe in transformation that comes not only from food and shelter but from education, opportunity, and the hope of the Gospel.  That’s why our core philosophy is simple, but powerful:

We don’t just feed people. We equip them.