Eunime Por Tijuana Provides Refuge for Orphaned Children with HIV
A handful of teenage girls share this bedroom. Posters of their favorite singers and notes from their friends paper the walls, and piles of stuffed animals populate the beds. One girl sits quietly at the vanity, brushing her hair and touching up her makeup. Juana Ortiz, her legal guardian, mentions
Moon Pads Provides Sustainable Period Products to Tibetan Nomads
Meg Ferrigno had already been living and working among nomadic Tibetans for years when she went on the service trip that would change everything. “I was translating for a midwife,” Ferrigno recalls. “We saw over 100 patients and every single one of them was reporting severe infections and horrible s
The Local Activist Caring for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence
Six days before 9/11, Dilkhwaz Ahmed arrived in the US from the Kurdistan region of Iraq to attend a conference. Ahmed, who had opened one of the first women’s domestic violence shelters in Iraq, applied for asylum after the attack, knowing she couldn’t go back. She already received threats at home
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