If you keep your eyes open, you’ll notice many opportunities to help children. Those that are quietly standing by, with their innocence, sometimes not realizing that they are missing out. Last week it was as simple as a conference I had with my daughter’s teacher. She had asked earlier for donations of $2.50 for a…
I, and all the other writers here, typically write about children. We are “Mothers Fighting for Others,” and that usually means that, as mothers, we are fighting for children all over the world. Today, however, I’d like to be a mother fighting for other mothers – for other women. On Friday, September 25, I spent…
Stepwise, a not for profit organization working to provide basic needs for East Africa’s youth, is throwing a fund raiser at the Daniel Cooney Fine Art gallery in Manhattan to raise funds for Universal Children’s Centre in Mombasa, Kenya. WHY?? Conditions at Universal are par for the course in East Africa: no running water, no…
I tend to make a lot of the gifts we give at the holidays, so it’s already time for me to prepare. I wanted a unique gift for someone I taught to knit, and while searching online I stumbled across Napalese silk yarn. This yarn is made by a co-op of women in Nepal who…
Imagine what it would be like to live on less than $2 per day. That is what 40% of the people in the world do. “Among these 2.7 billion, the poorest 1.1 billion were scraping by on less than one dollar per day” according to” Portfolios of the Poor…How the World’s Poor Live on 2$…