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World Food Program’s Live Below the Line Challenge

May 2, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen in a conference call along with other social good bloggers to hear World Food Program USA Board Chair Hunter Biden and WFP USA President & CEO Rick Leach discuss the “Live Below the Line” Challenge to help solve global hunger. The fact that 1 in 8 people in the world live in constant hunger – which means 925 million people will not get enough to eat this year (more than the populations of the […]

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Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Food and Nutrition, Global Health, Live Below the Line, SOCIAL GOOD, World Food Programme • Tags: Advocacy, global poverty project, live below the line, Poverty, thirdeyemom, world food programme

The impact of the good old Sweet Potato on Global Health

February 21, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Today I am honored to be collaborating with a group of women bloggers on behalf of ONE, a non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable diseases, to increase awareness about world hunger. ONE asks: “How can it be that 40% of Africa’s children are so chronically malnourished by the age of five that they will never fully thrive, physically recover or mentally develop – and this has not improved in two decades, despite so much other development […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Food and Nutrition, ONE, SOCIAL GOOD, Sweet Potato campaign • Tags: Food, global health, nutrition, ONE, ONEMoms, Poverty, Sweet Potato, thirdeyemom

Helping Haiti: The story of how 600 volunteers built 100 homes in a week

December 10, 2012 by thirdeyemom

I am honored to be writing a two part series on behalf of Habitat for Humanity. Recently 600 volunteers from around the world set off to Haiti as part of the Carter Work Project for the second year in a row with the goal of building 100 homes in a week. Here is their story. “Men anpil, chay pa lou.“ Many hands [make] the load lighter. -Haitian proverb In 1984, President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn created the Jimmy […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Habitat for Humanity, SOCIAL GOOD • Tags: CULTURE, Habitat for Humanity, haiti, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project, Poverty, rebuilding, thirdeyemom, Volunteering

United Way’s campaign to teach children about poverty: Pass the Grade game

December 2, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This post is part of the Social Good Sunday series in which I highlight different organizations around the world making the world a better place. Poverty is a tough topic to comprehend. It is tragic, dark, unfair and cruel. A way of life that doesn’t make sense in a world that has so much for some and so little for the rest. If poverty is hard to understand as an adult, imagine how confusing it is to understand such a […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Children, HUMAN RIGHTS, poverty, SOCIAL GOOD SUNDAY • Tags: Advocacy, children, Education, Greater United Ways of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Pass the Grade, Poverty, thirdeyemom, United Way

SUNDAY SOCIAL GOOD: One Little Girl’s Trafficking Legacy

October 21, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This post is part of my Social Good Sunday series. It is a guest post from Chloe, the Founder & President of C.R.E.E.R in France & Cote d’Ivoire. C.R.E.E.R – Centre de Reinsertion et Education pour les Enfants de la Rue, or in English, a centre of reinsertion and education for street children I’ve always had a passion for Africa. I first visited east and southern Africa as a young child with my parents and my passion grew through many […]

Categories: Children, Guest Posts, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL GOOD, SOCIAL GOOD SUNDAY, Trafficking • Tags: Africa, children, Cote d'Ivoire, CREER, HUMAN RIGHTS, Ivory Coast, Poverty, Social Good, Social Good Sunday, thirdeyemom, trafficking

FRIDAY FEATURE: How Haiti Changed my Thinking about Race and Politics in America

October 19, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This Friday’s Feature is from one of my dearest blogging friends, lovely Kathryn McCullough who writes the fantastic blog “Reinventing the Event Horizon“. Kathy has become a wonderful blogging friend and I adore her creative posts. She is also in the process of writing a memoir. How Haiti Changed my Thinking about Race and the Election: “Very Close is Not There Yet”. Whether or not, as a white woman living in middle America, I am as qualified as others to address […]

Categories: FRIDAY FEATURE • Tags: CULTURE, election, haiti, HUMAN RIGHTS, Politics, Poverty, race, reinventing the event horizon, Travel

The Power of We

October 14, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Founded in 2007, Blog Action Day brings together bloggers from different countries, interests and languages to blog about one important global topic on the same day. Past topics have included water, climate change, poverty and food with thousands of blogs, big and small, taking part. This year’s Blog Action day is October 15th and the theme is “The Power of We” – a celebration of people working together to make a positive difference in the world either for their own […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, BLOGGING, Inspiration, SOCIAL GOOD • Tags: Advocacy, BAD12, Blog Action Day 2012, Blogactionday, philanthropy, Poverty, PowerofWe, The Power of We, thirdeyemom, Volunteerism

SUNDAY SOCIAL GOOD: Inspired by the slums and people of Khon Kaen, Thailand

October 14, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This post is part of my Social Good Sunday series. It is a guest post from Alicia Rice who is living in Thailand working on a documentary film about the people living in the slum communities of Khon Kaen. This is a post about her work. I came to Thailand as a study abroad student in 2008. For four months, we learned about globalization and development projects in Northeastern Thailand, the poorest region of the area. We read studies and […]

Categories: SOCIAL GOOD, SOCIAL GOOD SUNDAY • Tags: Alicia Rice, Inspiration, Khon Kaen, life, philanthropy, Poverty, slums, Social Good, Social Good Sunday, Thailand, thirdeyemom

How all moms are ONE Moms

October 13, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This week I’ve been actively following a group of amazing women who are part of the ONE Moms/ONE Mums delegation to Ethiopia. Today these women are flying home to the United States and the UK where they will continue to use their voice in sharing the stories and photographs of what they learned and saw during their week long journey in Ethiopia.

Categories: ADVOCACY, ONE • Tags: Advocacy, Ethiopia, HUMAN RIGHTS, ONE, ONE Moms, ONE Mums, Poverty, thirdeyemom

Feeding 7 billion: World Food Day October 16th, 2012

October 4, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Do you ever wonder how on earth we are going to feed the world? With a population of 7 billion and growing every day, how will the world come up with enough food to feed its population? Per a recent alarming UN report on global sustainability, the forecast is frightening: “As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly 9 billion by 2040 from 7 billion now, and the number of middle-class consumers increases by 3 billion over the next […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Team of 200, Hunger • Tags: global group of 200, hunger, oxfam america, Poverty, Social Good, thirdeyemom, world food day

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