Care & Share, a community based nonprofit operating in the slums of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, India, characterizes its humanitarian work as a ‘drop in the ocean’ of poverty and destitution. But, as Tammy Phan writes, students from Anglo Chinese Junior College have helped provide more than 5000 ‘drops’ of hope to Care & Share children.
Rags2Riches is a Filipino brand that turns scraps of cloth into high-end fashion accessories . . . and in the process provides jobs, dignity, decent wages and financial training to women from some of the poorest communities in the country. Michael Switow caught up with Rags2Riches founder Reese Fernandez at the Qi Global conference in Singapore. Check out this audio podcast!
No one should be subjected to the brutality of trafficking, much less because of poverty, writes ShuQi Liu. Yet states appear to give a higher priority to drugs and wildlife smuggling, not to mention media piracy, than human trafficking. And here in Singapore, trafficking victims – who often do not have access to their own passports, much less the freedom to leave their place of ‘work’ – are caned and jailed for overstaying their visas.
Nearly 180 migrant children – forced to leave their homes in Burma following political violence and climate disasters – are eating more nutritious meals thanks to support from ONE (SINGAPORE) and its partners. However funding for these programmes expires in April and May, unless new partners step forward.
Students and teachers at boarding schools for ‘unparented’ migrant children along the Thai-Burmese border talk about Room to Grow’s nutrition programme.
Happy New Year! We begin 2012 with a very important panel discussion about human trafficking and child prostitution. Also looking back at 2011, the gender ceiling has been broken in some important places.
