November 2013
Show Your Support for The Philippines
Show Your Support for The Philippines PHOTO: Residents of Hernari, in the Philippines, rebuild their homes after Typhoon Haiyan (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) Recently, the Philippines has been battered by natural disaster after natural disaster. Just a few weeks ago, the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon was badly damaged by Typhoon Santi. Two days after the storm, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake leveled most of the province of Bohol in Central Visayas. Then came Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda)... Read more »
Global Healing Member MacDonald Sembereka’s…
Another example of Global Healing member MacDonald Sembereka's good work: LIWONDE - University of South Florida (USF) graduate students travelled from Tampa to Malawi on a mission to develop a draft master plan for sustainable tourism in the Liwonde National Park, the jewel of the national park system in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeast Africa bordered by Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique... Please click here to view the whole article Dave RandleGlobal Healing Read more »
Matriarch, Amelia Boynton Robinson…
A time to treasure. Love trumps hate -- always. The Trail of Dreams CC visits, the Voting Rights Matriarch, Amelia Boynton Robinson, 102 years young in the hospital. Click here to view the video. Audri WilliamsThe Trail of Dreams Read more »
A Force Such as the World Has Never Known: Women Creating Change
Dear URI family globally, I am one of the contributors to a book which has been published by Inanna Publications a Canadian based organization. The book is summarized at the link http://www.inanna.ca/index.php/catalog/force-such-world-has-never-known-women-creating-change/. There are also other URI contributors like Annie and Joy. My topic was on the environment in relation to women titled "Protecting Mother earth, the African Woman's Sanctuary-Stories of Support, Struggle and success. The grassroots work of URI in this regard is also mentioned... Read more »