The Egazini Outreach Project in South Africa is is turning a community that was once filled with terror and injustice into one of possibilities through art and dance. The director of this new outreach program hopes to use this project as an outlet for adults and children to express their creativity. Since the project started, many youths have been kept from using drugs and being involved in crime. Read more...
You can develop a regular meditation practice by converting waiting time into meditating time!
The average American waits 42-60 minutes a day! Read more...
Dear EarthTalk: There are so many energy drinks on the market, but they all seem very high in sugar, coloring and preservatives. Are there any natural versions that offer a healthier kick-start? -- John Hwang, Cambridge, MA
Energy drinks constitute one of the fastest growing sectors of the soft drink market across the U.S. and around the world, with some 500 new varieties introduced in recent years. But it
Shawn Ahmed, former student of the University of Notre Dame is on a mission to end world poverty. After attending the 2006 Notre Dame Forum on Global Health and meeting Dr. Jeffery Sachs (author of the book "The End of Poverty"), he was inspired to travel to Bangladesh for a small, short-term, and self-funded project to see what difference he could make in helping some of the world's worst off. Read more...
My wife and I were out with friends last week, eating at an Indian restaurant in Toronto. Midway through our meal I noticed movement beside me and looked over to see a little girl of six or seven years old, her Dad standing with her, politely waiting for my attention. I smiled at her. She giggled and buried her face in her father's legs. He leaned over and whispered for her to
On the 22nd of March FairMail Peru organized a photoexposition called "Una Gran Excursion" (A wonderful excursion, red.) in restaurant Otra Cosa in Huanchaco, Peru. FairMail's teenage photographers chose this name to go with the pictures they took during the last FairMail photography excursion in February to the Peruvian Andes. The theme of the exposition was the Peruvian Andes. Read more...
"In my next life, I would like to be a butterfly." So begins this simple video montage depicting the paintings and dreams of young students at two informal schools in India run by the non-governmental organization Calcutta Rescue. Calcutta Rescue provides free education to nearly 300 slum children in that city and here, the impetus behind the lush series of water-color paintings on display is voiced by the artists themselves. "I imagined standing by a river like this. I have never seen a river, but I have seen pictures," says one. And another: "I live on the street with my parents, brother and one sister. I would like to have a big house so that we can all live there." Read more...
In 1996, Eve Ensler wrote the famous play titled "The Vagina Monologues" that became an international feminist phenomenon. Not only did the play bring women's issues to the forefront, it inspired Eve to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.
V-Day will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2008 with women and men from the U.S with a mega two-day anniversary celebration - V TO THE TENTH - in New Orleans Friday - Saturday, April 11-12 at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome. Read more...
What if six people emerged to achieve the "physiologically impossible"? for runners, that was running a four-minute mile. For human beings with type-II diabetes, that was reverse the disease and stop all medications by living a lifestyle that promotes life. Of course the journey will bring up all the human issues and explore the depths and triumphs of humanity's journey and healing of the spirit for all humankind in our times.
Teachers, kids, and parents, be sure to catch the TED talk entitled Once Upon A School by writer Dave Eggers and an exciting volunteer program of the same name that is growing around the US. For the talk go to: www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/233 Read more...
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