Category Archives: Poverty

Look Out … for the Children

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 ...

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Mothers Fighting for Other Mothers

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 the ...

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In New York City Next Tuesday?

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?? ...

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So I Will Remember

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 ...

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What we can learn from the poor

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 ...

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