By: Laura Stump This is Part II of a two-part article. To read Part I, click here. Amidst the overwhelming challenge of addressing sensitive issues like Female Genital Cutting, the organization Tostan works with villages instead of against them. To learn more, Tatiana and I headed back to Dakar to join up with Tostan employees. Before long, we hopped in the Tostan vehicle with Kalidou, the Tostan [...]
By: Laura Stump I looked at Tatiana across our dinner bowl, scanned the face of her host mom next to us, then turned back to Kali, the ancient, sickly man asleep on the ground. Kali no longer works and is without family or means to care for himself, so he wanders the village. He frequents the compound of Tatiana’s host family, curls up [...]
By: Morgana Wingard Life happens here. Babies trade a death sentence for life. Mothers transform their sickly skeleton figures to healthy able bodies. Tema offers hope in a place that was once hopeless — ravaged by AIDS. Funded by The Global Fund through financial support from Product (RED) Tema Hospital cares for 2,200 people living with HIV. We recently visited their [...]
Making sure everyone has a seat at the table There is one question that repeatedly pops up when talking about More than Me with parents in West Point: “what about my son?” Many of the girls in More than Me’s program have male siblings, and for a lot of parents this creates an obvious dilemma. We have written about why we have [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra Video journalist Maggie Padlewska will travel alone for one year, visiting a country each week for a total of 52 countries. During her journey she’ll be recording, editing and producing videos of her interactions with communities, organizations and people under-represented by mass media and uploading them to the web, so that the stories of these people in lesser known [...]
By:Barry Rodriguez This article comes via World Next Door Haiti has always had a big place in my heart. After the January 2010 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation, I had the incredible privilege to live inside an internally displaced people camp and write about what life is really like for families there (click here to read those articles). That is why [...]
By Antonio Pasolini, Justmeans A new socially responsible campaign aims at advancing literacy in Latin American countries. The initiative is by Grupo Nelson, the Spanish division of Thomas Nelson, to celebrate International World Book Day on April 23, 2012. The name of the campaign is “Dona un Libro”, or “Donate a Book” and it will encourage readers to donate new or [...]
The violence and impunity Mexico has been facing these past years have prompted artists, creators and media to join forces and launch a campaign to change statistics into names and stories. Through a collaborative project they are asking viewers to research other casualties and give voices to the victims of violence. Artists have recorded several videos telling some of the [...]
By: Laura Stump Last week, I hopped a bus out of Amman to the town of Salt in search of the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf. All I knew about the school fit into a few email exchanges between myself and a volunteer teacher from the U.S. named Brent, but it was enough to make me curious. Upon arriving in [...]
“I’d love for viewers to have an emotional investment in Rico and Starr’s story. It’s easy to pass by youths like Rico and Starr on the street. And it’s easy to not watch a film like this…but I feel their story is incredibly compelling and potent.” -Goro Toshima Broken Doors follows a young, homeless couple (Rico and Starr) struggling to [...]
