One way of helping to change the world for the better

“In honor of International Women’s Day, Kiva has a great new 30-second video worth sharing on FB, Twitter, and all social media — I think it’s really powerful, and it speaks right to Kiva’s original core wheelhouse issue of helping women in the developing world: http://www.kiva.org/videos/dreams” ~ Bob Harris, Author, TV and travel writer, voice…

WE ARE SURVIVORS

WE ARE SURVIVORS I really enjoy the World Food Programme’s (WFPs) “Stories”- not only are there some beautiful yet heart breaking images, but also real people’s stories as well as the facts about the situations that many people are currently facing across entirely different countries, for entirely different reasons, worldwide.

When girls make all the difference… for other girls

When girls make all the difference… for other girls When my younger sister, Lilly, first told me that she was going to Palestine, I thought she was nuts… all those images of dead or damaged people, with limbs blown off, and bandages all over the faces, as well as images of children and women screaming,…

REBLOG: Sharing the love… can you?

Sharing the love! View at Medium.com

My sister; making waves for women in Palestine!

Asira Al-Shamaliya: Vlog 4 Lily was one of just two girls who joined the http://www.skatepal.co.uk team of skateboarders who went to Nablus, Palestine, in August this year to build a skateboarding park for the local children.

“To be a single mother gives you more strength, you want to fight even harder.”

“To be a single mother gives you more strength, you want to fight even harder.” – Lourdes, shop owner and Kiva borrower, Paraguay This month, we’re celebrating dreams and inspiring Kiva borrowers with our Dreams are Created Equal campaign. Lourdes’s dream was to prove her worth as a woman to her family, her ex and…