Showing posts with label Sudan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sudan. Show all posts

Friday, January 24, 2014

Project Daniel - Not Impossible Labs

Saw this very moving story and video on Huff Post today. I'm so impressed by the vision these folks have and how they brought it to life. For me, THIS is what it's about. If you can, please donate.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Today is World Water Day

PHOTO BY ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
"A precious drink: A mother offers water to her child at the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons in El-Fasher, Sudan. Water at the camp is scarce, forcing refugees to walk miles to collect it and haul it back."

Today is World Water Day. Water is a basic human right. Every day, 800 million people around the world live without access to safe, clean drinking water. It particularly effects women and children (watch Why Water). Visit charity:water to learn more and see how you can help. It's only right.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

And People In the US Can't Be Bothered...

"A long wait for nothing: A trail of rocks, bone, boots and boxes marks residents' place in line at a polling station in Juba, Sudan. The group waited in vain for hours for the station to open, but were unable to vote due to a missing electoral materials."

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Today's Reality Check

"Manna from heaven: Girls collect sorghum grain spilled from split bags that were airdropped over the village of Pochalla, Sudan. The United Nations World Food Program has resumed food airdrops into remote southern areas for some 155,000 people cut off by poor roads or regional conflicts."

More info about the UNWFP is here.

Photo: Peter Martell / AFP / Getty Images