By: Aparna Ray In the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, when a group of children leave their homes every morning to go to school, another group of children come out onto the streets, to work for a livelihood. The streets to them represent an opportunity to earn a living. Some of these children collect garbage, others sell various items – tea and [...]
BY JACOB PATTERSON-STEIN More Than Me is an organization that help get girls off the street and into school in one of the poorest slums in the world in Liberia, West Africa. This is a repost from their latest blogpost. This is a guest post from Billy Vierbuchen, a More than Me volunteer that recently joined Katie on the ground [...]
Interview with co-founder Michele Torrey, Orphans Africa, a charitable non-for-profit organization working to improve the lives of orphans and widows in Tanzania, Africa. How was Orphans Africa formed and why in Tanzania? In 2007, my husband, Carl Gann, and our friend, Liza de Guzman, wanted to do some “volun-tourism” someplace in Africa. I inquired at many worthy organizations, but something always [...]
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: KATIE MEYLER About More Than Me: We get little girls off the street and into school in one of the world’s most dangerous slums in the world in Liberia, West Africa. We work with community leaders to identify the girls who are at the highest risk of being sexually exploited to ensure that education and opportunity, not exploitation and poverty, defines [...]
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 [...]
The Brilliant Club is a unique social enterprise that came up in the UK in 2011. It connects secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds with leading universities for higher education. The enterprise has recently won the first Social Innovation Award instituted by Teach First, an independent charity in the UK, working to bridge the gap between rich and poor in [...]
By: Allison Louie – Summer 2011 From April to May 2011, Freedom Stones coordinated jewelry bracelet-making production for Soul Action (on behalf of Tearfund UK). Students from Cambodian Hope Organization’s two sewing classes in the nearby villages and one sewing class for teens at the Safe Haven made the bracelets. We had 38 students in total making friendship bracelets, and [...]
-How was The Sound of Hope birthed? And what is so pleasing leading it? In 2007, I went to Africa for the first time. I spent two and a half weeks in the tiny country of Swaziland, which is located in Southern Africa. This country is only about the size of New Jersey, with a population of less than 1 [...]
30 Youths Graduate from SISHA’s 3rd Youth Legal Rights Course By: Josianne LaMothe our Program Development Assistant. July 01, 2011 The class youngest student writing this exam PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – On June 26th, 30 smiling young boys and girls graduated from SISHA’s third Youth Legal Rights Class (YLR). For the last eight weeks, the youths had been learning about important [...]
