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To Serve the Poor
By Ashley GreenBuckner Shoes for Orphan Souls Trip Participant(El Paso, TEXAS) — We were in border towns, known locally as colonias, meaning poor neighborhoods. Poor. A colonia...
Buckner to Start Shoe Drives in Countries Worldwide
By Analiz González SchremmerBuckner InternationalBuckner Shoes for Orphan Souls went from being a Dallas-based shoe drive in 1999, to expanding throughout the country.Now, 10 years later, Buckner...
Welcome to the new Buckner Web site!
Buckner International is happy to launch our new Web site, designed to be easy to navigate and fun to read. “Buckner has a long and storied tradition...
Buckner, Bright Hope and Ethiopian President Celebrate School Inauguration
By Analiz G. Schremmer(BANTU, Ethiopia) — Buckner International and Bright Hope celebrated the inauguration of a new school in Bantu, Ethiopia in the company of Girma Wolde...
How Last Year Led me to Today
By Suzy HemmingFor the past few years I’ve been putting together Christmas gift boxes for orphans in Peru. It’s a shoebox that I would fill with pens,...
Valero donates $25,000 to Buckner children
By Analiz González Schremmer(BEAUMONT, Texas) — Valero Energy Corporation donated $25,000 to Buckner Children and Family Services in Southeast Texas.The funds were collected at the 2008 Valero...
Out of the Ashes
By Analiz González Schremmer(SAN CARLOS, Texas) — Everything was gone. When the Longoria family came home from the flea market on January 18, all that was left...
Emmanuel’s Story
By Jenny Popewith reporting by Megan Petock, Mercy ShipsPhotography by Debra Bell, Mercy Ships (LIBERIA) – Emmanuel, 10, was used to being treated as an outcast. Born...
An Unexpected Thank You from Baghdad
By Analiz GonzálezBuckner International(DALLAS, Texas) — Ray Perkins, 92, isn’t one to get involved in a lot of activities at the Buckner Retirement Village where he lives.Alicia...
Sanctity of Life Sunday Reminds us, ‘Life is Good’
By Analiz GonzálezBuckner International(DALLAS, Texas) — Almost everyone can agree that society has an idolized group: the young, the wealthy, the powerful, and the beautiful. But God...