One drop

http://www.onedrop.org

October 2009

Online and on the street

Skip Schreiber, 64, gets online in his van, which is also his home, in the Bayview district of San Francisco. For his 60th birthday, he dipped into his monthly disability check to buy a laptop, connected it to his car battery, and taught himself to use it.

Read the rest on WSJ

June 2009

Tap Project Radio

Tap Project Radio was created to help UNICEF save the millions of children around the world who don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water.

http://tapprojectradio.org

March 2009

Not addressing poverty costing Ontario $13B annually

“Not addressing the root causes of poverty is costing the Ontario economy about $13.1 billion annually, according to a study released on Thursday.

The study, entitled The Cost of Poverty, was conducted by the Ontario Association of Food Banks in collaboration with Canadian economists over a six-month period.”

Read more at cbc.ca

November 2008

AIDS children in Kenya

A fascinating, and pretty depressing glimpse into lives of AIDS children living on the streets of Kenya.

October 2008