In the country of Bangladesh amongst its hills known as the Chitagong Hill Tracts are a people who are in danger of losing their languages. With no written alphabet and no way to preserve their languages they begin to lose their culture. Tim Brookes creator of the kickstarter Endangered Alphabets Project is on a mission to see that the people [...]
No one should be hungry, unclothed or uneducated Erin Danae Fowler “The American materialistic young girl [inside] that went over to change India…she died. What was born was an empathy and a passion for the overlooked, the forgotten and the impoverished people here in my city.” -Denise Currie, Director/CEO of The Giving Closet, Vancouver, WA. Denise Currie sat across from me [...]
By: Laura Stump Today, before the older kids got home from school, I had a moment to spend time with Makaphutu’s three youngest residents. Nothing out of the ordinary—some jumping around in the grass, kicking around a ball and (of course) some hugs. It started with Mpho, famous for throwing her arms up with abandon at any passerby. I scooped her [...]
This week we are showing the unexpected beauty through photos from a few selected countries. Enjoy these beautiful photos taken by Savannah Chastain during her trip to India. Photos by Savannah Chastain A Gujar man and his daughter have an intimate moment in their summer dwelling in the mountains of Kashmir. The Gujar people are a nomadic people group [...]
After watching a video of African children suffering from parasites in their feet, Asher Collie couldn’t just just sit and watch this continuing, she instant knew that she could help African men and women by teaching them a simple trade—how to make shoes. You did your first trip to Uganda and Zambia in spring 2010, what was it that sparked the idea to start Sole [...]
By: Kelly Voight The moment is finally here! Our pilot episode of “In Motion” is LIVE, and we can’t wait for you to see it! (Heck, if you are as pumped as we are, feel free to scroll down to watch it now and skip all the chit-chat…) We hope this episode is the first of many this season to share with you, [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra It hasn’t been easy to try and stop child labor in Nicaragua, and the following videos provide a look into the reasons why many children are still working despite the new laws. While some families are seeing value in getting their children educated and are responding to awareness campaigns, for others child labor is the way they [...]
Lisa Borden, Owner of Borden Communications + Founder of the TakeOut WithOut Campaign knew action could be taken to make a big difference. She and her team were committed to creating an outlet to educate others and share information, volunteering their full scope of services to branding and driving this non-profit campaign. Below is an interview with Lisa. How did TakeOut [...]
By: Akhila Vijayaraghavan Chocolate like coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is also provides some very important CSR and sustainability issues for companies that deal with chocolate. Chocolate has its origins with the cacao tree, native to Central and South America. Today however, about 70% of the world’s cacao is grown in Africa. The history of chocolate goes back to the [...]
By: Leslie Berliant I have been cooking, baking and candy making for as long as I can remember. From the time I started kindergarten, sometime around the middle of November, my mother would come in my room in the morning, feel my forehead, proclaim that I was too sick to go to school and for the next week I [...]
