Senegal is no stranger to the slave trade, as cities such as Saint-Louis prospered due to the sale of human lives. Gorée Island, which lies just less than 2 miles off the coast of Senegal, was one of West Africa's largest slave trading outposts during the Atlantic Slave Trade. The sale of men, women and […]
Are you a future global leader, do you want to share your ideas for change with the world, sick of people thinking you don't know what's going on in the world or your too young to make a difference? Well show the world what innovative ideas you have by putting your ideas, thoughts and youthful […]
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, poet, writer, humorist and professor at Harvard, 1809-1894 They say 'the truth will set you free’, yet so often as we grow in to adulthood we forget the simple and all encompassing power of […]
We’ve all heard of snow days, but snow school? For the children of Leipzig Germany's Wood Kindergarten, everyday is a snow day. The Wood Kindergarten is all outdoors and regardless of the temperature, even if below zero, school carries on. In a day and age where too many children have to be forced outdoors to […]
The issue of child marriage is in no way a new issue, it is one that has plagued children, especially young girls across geographical divides, while child marriage is more prevalent in some cultures, the true cause for the high levels of child marriage is more often economic than socially based. At the root of […]
With the dawning of a new year, we've moved passed our parties and our family functions and are now sitting and thinking what will I do this year to make a change in my life and make a difference for others. As you sit-down and thin of your New Year's resolutions, remember life is not […]
March 12, 2008 Nothing left to lose: A landless peasant in Brazil resists state police forcibly moving her and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a piece of private property in the Brazilian Amazon. Their bows and arrows were no match for tear gas and trained dogs. March 18, 2008 Playing amid […]
On each and every one of these 365 days, I will look at everyone and everything as if for the first time, especially at the smallest things. – Paulo Coelho, Chronicle – As If For The First Time
As you spend your last hours of 2008, one hopes you look fondly on the year and ring in the New Year with both hope and great expectations for yourself and our global community, especially our children. Wishing you and a wonderful night and please check back in the New Year when the Foreign Policy […]
Tomorrow many will sit with their family's for Christmas and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, however this is the holiday season for all and it is with that note that one must remember the true spirit of the holidays regardless of your religious beliefs. Take this time to look around at all who are […]
Today begings the first of eight nights of Hanukkah, and as you Celebrate the Festival of Lights, please remember to give thanks for the children in your life, and prayer for those who are alone this holiday season. Nes Gadol Haya Sham ("A great miracle happened there"), and let us again see great miracles for children […]
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