Some results were ones that I hoped for, like seeing my community consider a way of thinking that goes beyond the kampung, or village. Since I volunteered teaching English and geography, I was proud to see that one result was that my students now knew their way around the globe and...
The people being supported are the poor and disadvantaged of Cairo, and some village districts south of the country. The recipients predominantly range from orphans, widows, divorcees, families of prisoners, and the disabled and terminally ill. We distribute food parcels and cash support to the ...
BRITAIN'S public schools have been accused of many things in their time: elitism, arrogance, giving the rich an unfair advantage. Now there is a fresh entry on the charge-sheet - that they are helping to destroy large parts of village London.Gilligan, AndrewAmerican Institute of Physics...
My task was to help take two blind women from their remote village to a hospital 60 miles away in Kano to have their cataracts removed. The older woman, Dije, was about 63 and the other lady, a beautiful, noble-looking woman called Hansatu, was probably in her late thirties. She was...