Submitted by Joan Bolger on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 12:58pm
Amy Ellis Nutt is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and enterprise writer at Newark’s Star Ledger. She is the author of Shadows Bright as Glass: the Remarkable Story of One Man’s Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her in-depth investigative reporting on the still unexplained sinking of a fishing boat off the coast of Cape May in 2009, which killed six crew members. She is the recipient of the 2011 Women of Concern Leadership Award sponsored by Concern Worldwide US, the international humanitarian organization.
Submitted by Joan Bolger on Fri, 05/06/2011 - 3:35pm
Shea nuts are indigenous to southern Chad, and have been traditionally pressed into a black oil to add to foods. While nutritious, it has an odor that many find unpleasant. Processing the Shea nuts into a white butter gives it all kinds of household and commercial applications, opening up new income streams for local women. This is southern Chad’s “white gold.”
Submitted by Joan Bolger on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 4:41pm
According to estimates from the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly one million children do not reach their fifth birthday because they die from malaria each year.
Submitted by Joan Bolger on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 2:18pm
According to the World Bank, since June 2010 another 44 million people have fallen into poverty because of the spike in food costs; every minute another 170 people join the ranks of the extremely poor—those who spend on average 85 cents of their daily budget of $1.25 on food.
Submitted by Joan Bolger on Fri, 04/08/2011 - 4:06pm
The theme of the Fourth World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists was “defining the roadmap for Muslim giving into the next decade.” Philanthropy is integral in the Muslim faith, which stipulates alms giving (zakat) of 2.5 percent of income or possessions to the poor and underprivileged.
