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New DAI Study Reveals Top Leadership Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa
DAI is proud to share the results of a new research project by Dr. Kelly Kumbu, DAI International Strategy Director. Dr. Kumbu's qualitative study reveals today's most urgent leadership needs in sub-Saharan Africa, with special attention paid to women in leadership...
Homestay Turned Covid Community Kitchen
A regional shortage of oxygen, hundreds of thousands of deaths, funeral pyres burning in the streets and millions of day laborers left without work and soon without food: the Covid-19 surge in South Asia last summer was among the worst anywhere, at any time, since the...
Trauma Healing for Servant Leaders
DAI has begun to offer trauma healing workshops to local Christian leaders. The same leaders who have least access to leadership materials are often the ones who have the greatest exposure to trauma: war, natural disasters, violence, abuse and more. This has become...
Raising Up Young Leaders in Palawan
Mark James Ferrariz, DAI’s Ministry Center Director in the Philippines, has a heart for raising up Filipino youth to be leaders in their country. At a recent training, 90 students from over twenty rural and mountain churches across the island of Palawan...
The Launch of DAI Niger
In April, DAI launched its 40th ministry center in Niamey, Niger. This has long been a dream of DAI’s Francophone staff because leadership development is one of the critical needs of the country’s Christian minority (Christians number less than 1% of Niger’s...
Earth Day and Creation Care
April 22nd is Earth Day, a day when people around the world celebrate our beautiful planet and take action to “Restore Our Earth.” For the secular world, this restoration is reactionary to ailments like climate change, destruction of eco-systems, deforestation,...
Home Again, But Not Really
In much of Nigeria, acts of violence – whether by Boko Haram or local bandits – have forced over three million to abandon their villages and flee for their lives. The families living in Ungwan Iliya, a small village in Kaduna State, were forced to leave six months ago...
Poultry for Pastors
With the loan he received from DAI Lanka, Niroshana was able to expand his family's poultry farming business and also open a shop selling readymade clothing.When COVID-19 triggered nation-wide lockdowns in Sri Lanka last spring, the poor and vulnerable were left in a...
Reflections on a year of unexpected abundance along the Ucayali
RiverWind, a group of people laboring to bring the Kingdom of God to communities deep in the Peruvian Amazon. Whence the name? The Ucayali River, wending back and forth through the Peruvian Amazon. A sound like the blowing of a mighty wind coming from the dwelling...
Better Leaders = Better Ministry
The Difficult Boss Catherine is an area program manager in Uganda for a large NGO. In her position, she had struggled to delegate to those who work for her. Catherine had also thought her subordinates could not do the quality of work she wanted, which made...