Our 2025 Annual Report Is Here
There's a version of an annual report that's full of numbers, charts, and carefully worded summaries. And then there's the kind that stops you mid-scroll because you're reading about a family in Ethiopia who now sends their kids to school, or a community in Birmingham that's raised over $100,000 for communities most of them have never visited — and can't stop going back to.
Our 2025 Annual Report is the second kind. And today, it's here.
A Year of Going Back to Our Roots
In 2024, our CEO Chris Marlow was asked a simple question at a board retreat in the Dominican Republic: What is your vision for Help One Now moving forward?
His answer came quickly: It's time to go back to our roots.
That conviction shaped everything about 2025. It's the throughline of this report — a year marked not just by programs and partnerships, but by rediscovering what makes this community distinctly us: local leaders, deep friendships, a shared belief that the church is the primary source of transformation in the world.
We know data matters. Here's what 2025 looked like on paper:
1,447,650 meals served at schools and in communities across our partner countries
4,424 students enrolled, including 392 in post-secondary education, supported by 215 teachers across 149 classrooms
148 families empowered through the Family Business Program, bringing our cumulative total to 1,806 families
88,795 individuals with ongoing access to clean water
17,828 people received spiritual care and counseling
685 full and part-time jobs sustained in local economies
256 children received 24/7 care, leading to 34 adoptions and family reunifications this year alone
239 new donors joined the Help One Now family
Our total impact revenue for 2025 was $2.68M, with 74.3% going directly to programs — because every dollar is maximized to deliver on our core mission.
The Stories Behind the Stats
Numbers are meaningful. But the report is really a collection of people.
Aschalew Abebe, our local leader in Ethiopia, has been doing this work for 17 years. He started by caring for orphans abandoned during the AIDS epidemic — his center once held 45 children at a time. Over time, his team built a local adoption program from scratch, working with government officials and local churches to change national policy. Today, more than 50 agencies are working on local adoption across Ethiopia. Even the Prime Minister adopted a child through the program.
"This global community is a picture of Heaven," he told us. "We share what we have, our burdens, our vision, and our hope."
Then there's the Casey family from Birmingham — on their second trip with Help One Now, this time to the Dominican Republic with their kids in tow. What they came home with wasn't a souvenir. It was perspective. Their children watched classrooms without air conditioning or elective classes. They helped carry 20-pound bags of food into a Haitian church. "If we were to describe the trip in one word," Maddox Casey said, "we would use the word perspective."
And Jared Clary, a pastor from Shreveport, Louisiana, who summed up why he keeps coming back: "You don't get better. The planning, the preparation, the care that goes into every trip — it's exceptional. You can trust them with your people."
Read the Full Report
The 2025 Annual Report is more than a year-in-review. It's a reminder of why we do this — and who we do it for.
Read the full 2025 Annual Report
If you're not already part of the Help One Now community, there's never been a better moment to step in. Whether that means giving, traveling, hosting a dinner, or simply subscribing to The Upstream — our monthly newsletter — there's a place for you here.
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