This World Mental Health Day, Zoie Carroll shares the story behind Zottie Dottie, an online community focused on reducing mental health stigma. Hi there fellow Blessed to Give readers! My name is Zoie and I launched Zottie Dottie on the 21st of December 2015. The name...
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...
In honour of today's UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants, Steve Owen writes about how he was welcomed by locals when he cycled from Alaska to Chile, and how differently refugees are treated in the UK. Borderlands Bristol works with refugees, asylum seekers and trafficking...
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...
My Experiences as an International Citizen Service Volunteer in Burkina Faso During the summer of 2015 I spent 3 months volunteering for “Kabeela”, a non-profit organization based in Burkina Faso, West Africa. My volunteering placement was facilitated by ICS (International Citizen Service), a UK government funded...
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...
Lessons from my Internship at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh Grameen Bank was founded in 1983. However, its story began seven years earlier in 1976. Muhammad Yunus, then an economics Professor at the University of Chittagong, decided to experiment with the notion of extending small amounts...
My Experiences as an International Citizen Service Volunteer in Nigeria In 2014 I took part in International Citizen Service, a development programme that brings together young people from the UK and developing countries, to volunteer in some of the poorest communities in Africa, Asia and Latin...