Category Archives: South America

Child Slavery…Did You Get Your Chocolate Bar For Free?

I’m a recovering chocoholic.  I broke my one chocolate bar a day habit while I was pregnant for my 2nd child.  By a strange course of mercy, I developed a strong dislike for chocolate while carrying that baby.  In fact, chocolate tasted like quinine.  I call it mercy, because aside from that change in my culinary…

Trickle UP: Empowering the poorest corners of the world

Trickle UP is an organization aimed at leading the poorest people in world toward a life of empowerment, and helping them make their way out of poverty. Trickle UP supports the poor in Latin America and the Carribean, Asia, Africa, and the United States. Once an entrepreneur has been indentified, Trickle UP extends the seed…

April 5th, 2008: World Swim Against Malaria

World Swim Against Malaria is aimed at ending the cycle of death and poverty that is associated with Malaria. Every year there are about 400 million cases of Malaria in the world. Between 1 and 3 million of those cases end in death, mostly among children. Malaria parasites are transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito….

TOMS Shoes

I love, love, love this idea. What a wonderful way to give back to the world. Want another pair of shoes for yourself? Cool, it might be your 1st pair of TOMS, but it might be the 1st pair of shoes ever for the children in Argentina. Blake… I wish there were more people like…