Michelle Brock is a blogger and co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an organization that fights human trafficking and exploitation. Describe the process of how Hope For the Sold was birthed? In October of 2006, my husband Jay and I attended a leadership conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Gary Haugen from International Justice Mission was one of the speakers, and it was the first [...]
By: Ben Gleason Doi Chaang Coffee is a unique partnership between Canadian businessmen and the chief of the Doi Chaang village of North Thailand. They believe strongly in sustainable agriculture, organic growing methods, and fairly traded coffee. I encourage you to look at their website, you will be shocked at how much information they provide about the owners, the workers, [...]
Community living facilitates sustainability, says green architect By: James Wilt From the snow-blanketed sidewalk of Edmonton Trail, the community of Prairie Sky Cohousing looks like any other collection of townhouses. But if dismissed with a single glance, one may miss an opportunity to bear witness to a unique way of helping the environment. The hamlet, completed in 2003, enables 43 people [...]
Before the World Premiere of She Has A Name in February, we had a chance to get a little inside information from the award winning writer, Andrew Kooman. Eye See Media: When you originally wrote She Has A Name, it was just one act. What were your next steps in development? Andrew Kooman: The original one act had a similar [...]
By: Laura Good, Theresa Konrad and Edi Leung In Vancouver, Canada, a group of University students from the University of British Columbia is putting together a short film, While I Breathe, to try to raise awareness about modern day slavery. “I first became aware of the issue on an exchange program to Xi’an, China,” says writer/director Laura Good. “I was [...]
Bringing Justice to the Victims of Violent Crime By: Darcie Nolan F.A.C.T. (Families Against Crime & Trauma) was started after a boy, Matthew, only 16-years-old, was killed violently at a Sky Train Station in British Columbia. His mother and family sat through the months of trial only to be exposed to the trauma again as his killer appealed the judge’s [...]
