The strongest and most recognizable voice associated with Point Hope is Delilah, an American woman currently heard on some 225 radio stations across the United States and Canada. Her nighttime radio program is a mix of loving conversation and music. She is the most listened to woman on radio in North America, and certainly the most listened to radio personality in the evenings. Years ago while broadcasting live in Philadelphia on a hot summer night; she took her audience on an imaginary adventure to the coolest part of the country, Point Hope, Alaska, where the temperatures were 50 degrees cooler. The idea of this place offered relief from a hot and sweltering night. The name of the town stuck with Delilah, and as she introduced her audience to the many homespun charitable tasks she took on during her days in Philadelphia, Point Hope was created. From the early days of making hundreds of sandwiches for hungry families, to helping thousands of children in foster programs as far away as Seattle, Delilah has consistently endured to help a child whose utterance of the word “help” is not heard by enough people.

Four years ago, a single woman in Ghana wrote an email to Delilah from an internet café located in a building that most of us would consider a shack. The letter asked Delilah to consider caring for her two severely needy children living in a remote refugee camp in West Africa. God’s inspired response led Delilah to communicate with the woman, and she learned of a United Nations’ sponsored refugee camp of Liberians, more than 60,000 in population, that needed help for not just two children, but more than 10,000. That was 2004. Since then, Point Hope has put in place many programs to aid the community and help its residents become more self-sufficient. Point Hope provided a nutrition program for under-nourished children, medical practices, elementary and secondary education as well as skills training for farming, carpentry and sewing. Residents of the camp can now grow their own produce because Point Hope designed a garden project that allows them to do so. Point Hope also succeeded in its goal to bring fresh, flowing water to the camp by purchasing large water tanks and installing an underground piping system. The refugee camp in Ghana, known as Buduburam, is still in need of resources since the United Nations and Christian charities are stretched far past this community to care for others around the world in equally dire situations. Point Hope remains dedicated to the people living in Buduburam and extends a welcoming hand to anyone who believes in its cause and would like to help further its progress.