We help children and families build lives that last.

What we have done

Year by year, in four countries.

1. May 2008The Center for Global Change is founded after the crash.
2. June 2009Aaron's first trip. A building project in Chitwan putting tin roofs on homes, and a visit to Rainbow House, the children's home built by Daniel Nassie and Rescue Humanity, where the kids take him in.
3. December 2009Debbie's first trip. She walks through the gate at Rainbow House to a hand painted banner: Debbie ma'am, will you please be our mom? From then on we help expand and fund the home: school, food, a doctor, a roof. The same trip: a medical camp in Jiri and Those, and the trek to Everest base camp.
4. October 2010A three day medical and dental camp in Ratnapur, Syanja, with the Vanetik Foundation and Rescue Humanity.
5. April 2011The IRS recognizes the Center for Global Change as a 501(c)(3) public charity.
6. November 2011Nine days of trekking with medical camps in Thulo Syabru, Thambuchet and Tatopani, the valley the flood would hit fifteen years later.
7. April 2015After the earthquake we raised the money and funded the Unatti Foundation to feed more than 3,500 people in Bhaktapur, 3,000 pounds of rice at a time, when nobody else had come.
8. May 2015Our first medical camp outside Nepal, in Vietnam. The same work, a new country.
9. March 2018One house built by hand in an inland village in Haiti.
10. October 2023A medical camp in Costa Rica, our most recent, and the third country we have run camps in.
11. August 2026A flood on the Nepal Tibet border takes homes and family members from people we have known for years.
12. October 2026We walk 120 km each across the Sahara so the rebuild is paid for before we land.
13. March 2027Back to Nepal with volunteers to rebuild a family home. Photos, costs and the day the family moves in, posted here.

Dates come from Aaron and Debbie's records and the IRS. Patient counts by camp will be posted when they are right.