On your last trip to the grocery store you may have noticed a new name in the nutrition bar section, or a new logo on your way through the [...]
For many years our ethical fashion label, KEZA has focused on what the aid world refers to as the “poorest of the poor”. It’s become another buzz term like “sustainability” [...]
Climate change has given us plenty to gripe about during those depressing coffee table discussions about the state of the world. Personally, it has affected me in a very [...]
Leading people in trouble to believe in their own abilities is a great solution when given first hand, but an overall obstacle that needs overcome is that many people around [...]
The vulnerability of Africa and Cameroon in particular, exposes it to different adversities that affect its development. This has delimited the target and the scope of most of its communities. [...]
I moved to Rwanda in March of 2008 and started an aid organization designed to care for women wishing to leave the sex trade. They had been beaten, raped and [...]
We live in a world where shock value regularly trumps true value. Consequently international aid agencies either play ball or loose the opportunity for funding. And it’s not just the [...]
I just returned from the annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington, DC. I was happy to see that conference built off of last year’s focus on [...]
2010 Social Innovation Fellow Dr. Raj Panjabi and his colleagues are on the front lines of the unfolding crisis in Liberia as tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees pour into Liberia.
Can we take our enthusiasm for social entrepreneurship offline? Can we make problems half a world away relevant to our everyday lives? When the demonstration in Egypt began, I was [...]
There must be something inherent to the discipline of anthropology that moves us toward critique: the tendency to pick-apart any kind of human effort to do anything in the world. [...]
Liz Bassler (far right) and some of her Invisible Children SoCal Roadie team members. A wise person once told me, “It’s good to have all kinds of friends, but you [...]
The Egyptian Revolution is known for many things; the large number of protesters; largely being youth led; inclusive to all social, religious and age groups; and its people’s persistence (because [...]
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