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KIRF Field Report: Ventura Family Helped After Barely Escaping House Fire

December 30, 2021

Our neighbors became homeless during the early morning hours of December 17, 2021. A fire broke out inside their home while they were asleep. Their

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KIRF Field Report: Haiti Earthquake on August 14, 2021

August 24, 2021

August 24, 2021 Lions Club International Relief Foundation (LCIF) provides Emergency Grants for basic immediate needs, including food, water, clothing, and medicine. LCIF has learned

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KIRF Field Report: Fire Pandemonic Relief in Ventura, California

February 18, 2021

Many people lost their jobs in the initial shutdowns from the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020. KIRF assisted small restaurants in Ventura, California. We helped them

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Cambodia: Beautiful people, ancient splendar, lush forests, chronic poverty and the “NGO Economy”

February 15, 2021

Stephen Kirwin and Cambodian friends Mark Kirwin, and his brother Stephen traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia after doing tsunami relief in Thailand in May 2005.

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Observations of a Volunteer Mediator at Climate Change Talks in Bonn

February 11, 2021

31 May – Day 1 This is day one.  I am now here in Bonn after quite a journey getting here through the trains. Germany

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KIRF FIELD REPORT: Helping Make Sure No Special Needs Child is Overlooked on Koh Samui, Thailand

February 11, 2021

While traveling in southern Thailand, Kai Kirwin, son of KIRF co-founder Mark Kirwin, and his friend Kyle Crooke discovered a new but underfunded boarding and

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Preparing for a Natural Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

February 11, 2021

After last week’s minor 3.0 earthquake near our main office just off the coast of Carpinteria, I mentally reviewed if our family was prepared for

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KIRF Field Report: Thomas fire families we helped in Ventura County, California in 2017

March 5, 2018

  Original date: March 4, 2018   As the flames lit up the night sky on December 4th, we watched with horror as a massive

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KIRF Field Report: Hurricane Harvey Relief in Houston, Texas 2017

December 30, 2017

It’s always hard to make a choice of who to help when disaster strikes. While driving to work one day, I heard interviews on NPR

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FIELD REPORT: KIRF Helping Homeless Earthquake Survivors in Peru

October 17, 2017

A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake struck Peru on August 15 of this year. The earthquake flattened homes, buildings and churches in the coastal areas of Peru

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