Family spends year volunteering in Ethiopia
Riverside Suburban Life - Tue Dec 8, 3:28 pm ETFor those looking for an unusual family vacation, the Kulbis family has a suggestion — volunteer in Ethiopia.
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For those looking for an unusual family vacation, the Kulbis family has a suggestion — volunteer in Ethiopia.
The 1987 Monroe-Woodbury graduate was a CIA operative killed in Ethiopia in 2003, By Bill Lemanski
A group of prominent African-Americans has challenged Cuba's race record, accusing the island nation of harassing its black citizens and cracking down on civil rights activists.
COLUMBIA — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheryl WuDunn has a lot of stories to tell. On Tuesday, she shared stories about women from around the world. She spoke about a Chinese girl who received aid and stayed in school, two Cambodian girls who were kidnapped and forced into sex slavery, and an Ethiopian woman who was married against her will at 13. And she did it without her PowerPoint ...
The fifth-graders' eyes were wide as saucers as Malakal Goak explained his barefooted escape through a jungle and the young daughters he left on another continent.
COPENHAGEN — Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, a U.N. climate conference delegate from Bangladesh, says “the world expects a lot from President [Barack ] Obama” and that he “should make sure he does not disappoint the world.”
Officials: In Ghana, cell phones reduce maternal mortality In Ghana’s Amensie village, where the Millennium Villages project made mobile phones near ubiquitous in 2006, deaths related to childbirth have fallen from 20 per year to zero in 2008, according to local health officials. Local health workers attribute the improvement in part to women’s new-found emergency access [...]
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By: Andy Song, Staff Writer In the Bucs for Books program planned by Leadership Studies 350, students had the opportunity to raise money through a hunger strike which began on Dec. 1 and lasted until Dec. 3....
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Allison Brown decided to create a business dedicated to preserving and restoring traditional Lao buildings.
As soon as Fran Poeggel of Lindenhurst learned that 400 orphans of the Rwandan Genocide were living in a youth village and that she could help them, she jumped at the chance.
On one hand, Buju Banton is a raging homophobe. On the other hand, he's the best reggae artist working today. So, should he get a Grammy? If you think not, sign GLAAD's petition. But then click...
When hundreds of millions of people tune in to watch the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and in Whistler in February, the area's many tasty enclaves will all but vanish for a few weeks.
Lothar Matthaus became the first recipient of the FIFA World Player of the Year Award when he was named the inaugural winner on this day in soccer history in 1991. The Internazionale player beat out Jean-Pierre Papin of Marseille and Tottenham’s Gary Lineker.
For those looking for an unusual family vacation, the Kulbis family has a suggestion — volunteer in Ethiopia.