The Needs Can Be Overwhelming

A veteran of betrayal, riots and a successful social enterprise talks about not being able to help everyone.

You Can Read to Them on Skype

Offer "longhouse" kids dignity, literacy and hope: read them a book online.

Dirty Water on My Face

When the universe tests your moral pronouncements it often uses you as the lab rat. Sometimes a soaking wet lab rat.

Standing on Strangers’ Shoulders

What it means to have someone believe in you, believe that you can run with the best.

A Place They Can Call Home

A blind boy spurs a teacher to set up a place for abandoned disabled children in Nepal.

Gangster, addict, dancing queen

She's got a secret weapon to reach troubled youth.

Better to Give Than to Go?

Are short-term overseas volunteer trips useful? Wouldn't the money be better used as direct donations?

Go Ahead, Laugh Out Loud

He laughed at himself and went from the village idiot to the loveable hero in one split second.

They Stop to Listen to Street Kids

Students shed their own sense of helplessness towards poverty.

Begging Kids Reject His Cash

What they ask for instead, transformed his life