Although I thoroughly enjoy my fair trade coffee, the real day I’m waiting for is when I can fill up with fair trade gasoline. Oxfam and other humanitarian organizations are receiving a lot of glitter over the Haiti crisis, but I think it’s important to recognize some of the other campaigns they have been [...]
The social entrepreneurship crew generally likes to poo poo traditional development.
And why not? It is an easy target given the widely held belief that aid doesn’t work and evidence showing the wholesale ineffectiveness of many development projects. We are increasingly convinced that aid donors – institutional and individual – have dumped incalculable sums down [...]
The fact that I’m finding it difficult to begin this post pales in comparison to the difficulty aid workers are facing on how to begin the relief effort in Haiti. As we all know by now, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, just south of the nation’s capital, Port au Prince. It [...]
Kenyan social entrepreneur Teddy Warria, founder of Common Vocabulary and New Horizons Initiative, visits the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday (Dec. 3) to share his vision for addressing two critical challenges facing Africa on its path to sustainable development – improving public health and expanding access to private capital markets.
The [...]
Hundreds of thousands of concerned global citizens will join the call to fight AIDS on December 1, World AIDS Day, as Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education) hosts an interactive discussion following the premiere of an award-winning documentary that unveils the effects of AIDS on African women and girls. Where the Water [...]
About three weeks ago, I was flipping through the channels and landed on PBS. If you know me, I spend about an average of 1 hour per week by the television, and it’s usually to catch the most recent episode of The Office. However, this particular night, PBS caught my attention. What I saw [...]
It is hard to remember the sharper edge of reality when wrapped in the warm cocoon of living abroad. For the better part of each day, I am granted reprieve from having to think about anything except “what shall I have for lunch today?” and “what concerts are on tonight?” The weekends are reserved [...]
If you’ve listened to the news in any capacity over the previous few months, you’ve probably heard something about healthcare. In fact, you’re probably becoming a bit tired of these monotone healthcare debates which seem to produce no useful outcomes whatsoever. Well perhaps a new and upcoming conference may help change our iterative healthcare [...]
Introducing NextAid
Imagine taking the power of music, the conviction of environmentally sustainable process, and the commitment to the children of Africa and combining them all to reach those infected with and orphaned by the HIV/AIDS virus. If you throw in strong local non-profit organization partnerships and a small team of passionate people, you’ve got [...]
Since this is my first official article for SocialEarth, I wanted to set the premise for what I hope most of my writings will feature: community development efforts done with excellence. My hope is to contribute to the discussion on how to effectively impact lives of people who need help through analyzing organizational [...]
Did you know that half of the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day, and have you ever wondered what living on just $2 would be like? This was a challenge that several interns from Opportunity International decided to understand and experience.
So what was the outcome of [...]
Former president Bill Clinton has made headlines lately for his world famous negotiation skills, coordinating everything from for the release of two American journalists in South Korea to cutting a deal with pharmaceutical companies to reduce HIV/AIDS drugs to $1 a dose. In fact it is hard to keep up with all the developments [...]
