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An amazing group of Buckner friends in Missouri has provided tens of thousands of pairs of new shoes for children around the world.
When it comes to organizing shoe drives for Shoes for Orphan Souls, our friends at the Missouri
Rotary perform in championship style! This amazing organization remains the single largest contributing group to the shoe [...]

A spirited company contest raised thousands of dollars and collected new shoes earlier this year.
The Austin and San Antonio branches of the Transwestern real estate company went head-to-head recently to see who could collect the most shoes for Shoes for Orphan Souls.
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By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International
Half of the population of Sierra Leone lives on less than $1 a day. In this country, people do what they can to scrape by.
Traders and vendors line the country’s roads, selling everything from produce to phone cards, drinking water and batteries. Women work as farmers, hairdressers, soap makers and traders, [...]

By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International

MEXICO — The Pan de Vida foster group home in Mexico City recently harvested more than 1,000 pounds of tomatoes, but they’re not exactly digging in or getting their hands dirty.
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By Lauren Hollon Sturdy
Buckner International
In Amherst, Texas, nearly 50 miles northwest of Lubbock, the summer is scorching hot. There hasn’t been any rain for weeks, and the dry, sunbaked landscape shows it. But way out in this dusty desert is a little oasis in the home of the Baker family.
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By Diamond Richardson
Buckner International

DALLAS – Keidra Perry knows that nothing in life is promised.
Years before Perry arrived at Buckner Family Pathways, she had the life she always wanted. She had a good job. She and her family lived in a nice house with two new cars parked in the driveway.
“I wasn’t humble enough,” Perry said. [...]

AUSTIN, Texas – Ken Hall, chief executive officer of Buckner International since 1994, announced his retirement from the Dallas-based organization during a July 22 meeting of the board of trustees. His retirement is effective April 30, 2012, when President Albert Reyes will assume the CEO title.
Hall, who was elected to the position in 1993, served [...]

By Diamond Richardson
Buckner InternationalDALLAS – Marsha Taplett leans in on a hot June day as a room filled with young girl eyes lock with hers. “Can everyone say portion control?” she says.
“Portion control!” The girls respond eagerly.
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In Proverbs 31:8, the biblical writer gives an exhortation that we have taken to heart here at Buckner.
God’s Word says: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” We are doing this in a special way through a new program called Voice Partners. These partners are [...]

DALLAS – Buckner International is collecting humanitarian aid relief kits to send to Joplin, Mo., where the deadliest single U.S. tornado in decades killed 117 people and left hundreds homeless.
Matt Asato, Buckner director of humanitarian aid, said his team is “rallying our resources to send a variety of emergency aid items to victims. We’re working [...]