After many years of working in what I've come to call ‘the orphan industry’, one gets a gut feeling about requests for help. As anyone reading the comments on a...
The only way to truly know another culture is to get off the tourist bus and be a part of the lives of the citizens. I’ve volunteered abroad in several coun...
December. That month when people invade shopping malls looking for the perfect gifts for the people they care about. Even young children know that after all tha...
October 23, 2008
Somewhere in Zambia
Standing in front of a human being shedding a single tear that barely has the strength to roll down is numbing. The sensa...
My life was a hard life. Who I was wasn’t the norm and feeling different from others I never felt like I fit in. Often times, I would look up at the sky and wonder where my place was in the vastness of it all...
Climate change. Genetically-Modified Food. Cancer. Poverty. War. Sometimes it's hard to get up in the morning and be fearless, to have courage and to care. That's why I started interviewing...
Caring for children as a way to make money is a profession as old as prostitution. The hands that grab the cash are usually not the hands that so desperately need...