Who is Convoy of Hope?

Convoy of Hope is a faith-based humanitarian organization headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, working in communities across Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the United States. Their programs span children's feeding, agriculture, women's and girls' empowerment, disaster services, and U.S. community work. When the Joplin tornado hit in 2011, their trucks rolled within hours and their teams stayed for two years. When flooding swept Oahu this spring, they served more than 2,200 hot meals alongside 185 local volunteers. When hurricanes leveled communities in North Carolina, they distributed over 5 million pounds of resources and stayed long after the cameras left.

That pattern, first to arrive, last to leave, is one of the reasons we chose them.

What does the work actually look like?

Picture a classroom in rural Madagascar: more than fifty first-graders, each holding a hardboiled egg and a spoon. The egg comes first, six grams of protein, then bowls of fortified rice and vegetables. That quiet ritual repeats in 71 schools across the island, feeding 10,600 children every school day, in a country where most families work land that gives just enough to survive. Where Convoy feeds children, school enrollment climbs and absenteeism plummets, because a meal at school changes the question families have to ask each morning.

What convinced us most is the model underneath the meals. Convoy practices asset-based community development: they provide seeds, training, and equipment, and communities provide leadership, land, and work. Women in their empowerment programs launch businesses that go on to fund other women's businesses. Farmers they train have produced hundreds of tons of food and donated portions back into the children's feeding program. The goal of every project is to phase out, leaving a community that no longer needs them. That is dignity, engineered.

The Madagascar story, and the rest of Convoy's reporting from the field, is told in their own words in Hope Quarterly; the full Summer 2026 issue opens this page. Scroll back up and flip through it: the feature on the egg program alone is worth the read.

How does your order give?

Simply. Ten percent of the product price of every order on llrule.com is set aside at the moment you check out and remitted to Convoy of Hope monthly. No minimums, no seasonal windows, no asterisks. A $60 Eternal Crew sends $6.00. We publish our running total and giving receipts on The 10% Pledge page, updated quarterly, so the record is public and permanent.

We did not build this to sell more hoodies. We built it because LLRULE was founded to be a lighthouse on a hill, and a lighthouse that keeps its light to itself is just a tower. The clothes carry the values; the values have to go somewhere.

This is the first story in The Movement Stories, because this is what the movement is for. Welcome to it.