Augustina Mejiasamata, a 34-year- old Quechua woman who lives in an Andes mountain village two hours outside of Cusco, Peru, had already waited in line for almost an hour...
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When one thinks of comic book superheroes, colorful characters saving the world in spandex and capes often come to mind. But one afternoon in Washington, D.C., I c...
In 2011, Sam Allen, Deere & Company’s Chairman and CEO, led a team from John Deere on a week-long corporate service experience in Rajasthan, India. Following this eng...
“This isn’t 15,000 incidents of eating bushmeat,” Paul Farmer said. “It’s weak public health systems.” Prior to his remark, I thought that contracting E...
As a year, 2015 holds great promise for the global engagement community. We can celebrate the sunset of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and also look forward to t...
This is Part II of a two-part series on Ugandan street children and the work of Good Future and Hope Foundation. Read Part I here. The drive to Kampala was slow. The mai...
This is Part I of a two-part series on Ugandan street children and the work of Good Future and Hope Foundation. “Do not bring anything valuable,” Viera said. “No money, n...
Two weeks ago, our media feeds were bombarded with an image of Bill Gates sipping from a crystal-clear glass with headlines exclaiming that he was drinking water converte...
“Go with the flow.” It’s hard to actually understand what it means until you find yourself in a foreign country surrounded by people you hardly know trying to solve a dif...
“Shut out of modernity, they have been left on their own.” Earlier this month, Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health (PIH) addressed a group of close to ...