Bjorn Steinz
March 21, 2012 – 10:38 am | Comments Off

 

Björn Steinz began his photographic career at a local newspaper close to Frankfurt. Having worked as a volunteer in refugee camps during the war in the former Yugoslavia and traveled in Latin America, he decided …

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Kandahar Treasure
December 8, 2010 – 3:00 pm | One Comment
Kandahar Treasure

Rangina Hamidi founded Kandahar Treasure in 2003 with a group of 25 women from the Kandahar area. It started out as a non -profit project of the Afghans for Civil Society and has expanded to over …

Harris Polls: Americans Donating Less, Volunteering More
November 9, 2010 – 12:01 pm | One Comment
Harris Polls: Americans Donating Less, Volunteering More

Last week, Harris Polls published their most recent survey of American donations and volunteer work. They surveyed 2,620 adults across the country and asked questions about what causes are most important to them personally, their …

CHF International
November 5, 2010 – 7:29 am | No Comment
CHF International

CHF International was started in 1952 to provide low-income housing in the United States, but its mission and influence has long since moved past strictly housing in the United States to encompass health care, emergency …

AIDG
October 25, 2010 – 10:07 am | No Comment
AIDG

Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group, or AIDG, is a different kind of NGO. AIDG understands that not every community is created the same way. Many communities are facing similar problems like access to electricity, clean water, …

Caleb’s Hope
October 20, 2010 – 12:47 pm | No Comment
Caleb’s Hope

In Northern Uganda, women and children are ostracized and left to die by their communities because they carry the stigma of being a former child soldier and being HIV-positive. Caleb’s Hope has made it their …

JoVE
October 15, 2010 – 4:06 pm | No Comment
JoVE

The Journal of Visualized Experiments, or JoVE, is an online peer reviewed medical journal that allows medical professionals around the world to share their research through video. By recording and sharing medical research by video, …