Monthly Archives: October 2010

Taking international aid into your own hands with the “D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution”

Nicholas D. Kristof’s op-ed piece “D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution” offers insight into the efforts of a few “passionate individuals with great ideas” who are working to “help the world’s most vulnerable…

Wonderful new opportunity to help children in cancer hospital in Tanzania

Hospitals are always places of hope and pain, illness and recovery, joy and sorrow. Make it a children’s hospital, and emotions run higher and deeper. Make it a children’s hospital…

Happy 50th Anniversary, Peace Corps!

by Theresa Higgs, UP Vice President of Global Operations This week kicks off a year of celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps! At 2:00am on October 14,…

The big hearts at United Planet open once again

One of the great things about being associated with UP is the chance to meet the generous and big-hearted people who hang around here. Last week, the Chair of the…

It’s all about the hug — in Chile and everywhere else…

I was crammed into a booth with my mom and my two daughters, and the restaurant suddenly hushed, and we looked over, and there it was on the TV above…