Creating Opportunity and Restoring Freedom from Guinea-Bissau to Sri Lanka I was 14 years old when I took a week off from school to join my church on a mission trip to Guinea-Bissau. Filled with excitement and hope for adventure, I boarded a plane that would...
Transformation in Svay Pak, the Epicentre of Child Sex Slavery It once was a dark hall, lined with stalls, each with a nervous young girl sitting on a stiff bed awaiting the introduction of another foreign man. Now, it is a bright room lined with bunk...
Empowering Young Kenyans to Understand Disasters, Assess Risks and Develop Resilience to Droughts, Floods, Fires, Famines and Attacks As I write this, it's in the news - five counties in the Coast region of my country, Kenya, are facing starvation. According to Kenya's National Drought Management...
The Story of How I became a Young Leader in Preventing Infant and Maternal Deaths in My Community. Curious Minds envisions a world where all children and youth are empowered to freely and actively contribute to issues concerning them, in an environment that ensures that their...
A book review of one family's story of doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan in the years following 9/11. Going for a gap year or short-term service abroad can be a life-enriching, mutually beneficial experience. We survey the needs and sign up for risky ventures, savoring the opportunity to...
This International Literacy Day, Dan Winch shares his experience volunteering at a school that ensures poverty does not prevent children from receiving a quality education. Johannesburg. For many Westerners, the name is synonymous with danger. This is a justly deserved reputation, and not one that many South...
Researching International Expansion of Transit Monitoring to Intercept Victims and Traffickers Tiny Hands International (THI) is a Christian NGO in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and South Africa, where we do anti-trafficking work and care for abandoned or orphaned children. THI fights human trafficking by transit monitoring— monitoring public...
Unlocking Cognitive Empathy, Compassion, Acceptance and Tolerance Among Youth: Music and the Young Heart A couple of years ago, my work with students across 15 schools in New Delhi to implement the Right to Education Act, which protects the right to quality education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds,...
Serving at Uzima Mission Clinic Where Fifty to Sixty Babies are Delivered Monthly, & A Hundred+ People Visit Daily During the summer of 2013, I had the privilege of going to Tanzania to partner with a Youth With A Mission base in a village just an hour south...
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." Mother Theresa In the summer of 2012, I spent nearly two months working as a volunteer teacher in a school in northern Tanzania. When I decided to go I...