Haiti Update: Construction in Full Gear, Volunteers, Donations Needed
Fuller Center building permanent homes for earthquake victims
AMERICUS, Ga., Aug. 11, 2010 — Six months following the earthquake that destroyed Haiti’s capital city, The Fuller Center for Housing is raising permanent shelter to give some of the 1.6 million displaced Haitians a place to c…
MILWAUKEE, April 20, 2010 — “In keeping with Toobee’s efforts to make a difference in society, 100% of all company profits will go to support select children’s charities worldwide,” said Greg Stromberg, President of Toobee International. A recent recipient of funds…
Author Battles Severe Mental Illness to Earn Master’s Degree
RAWLINS, Wyo., March 25, 2010 — At the age of 18, Daniel Meyers was struck with a severe and persisting mental illness: schizophrenia. But instead of giving up, Meyers reached from poverty and despair to achieve an MSW and LCSW, and published his trials and discrimination due to his illness in The Sp…
Odessa’s Jewish Orphanage Expands, Thanks to U.S. Philanthropist Mouli Cohen
ODESSA, Ukraine, July 10, 2009 — Launched ten years ago by the local Jewish community, an orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine, has experienced growth and success in recent months thanks to donations by philanthropist Mouli Cohen and his wife Stacy Cohen.
The orphanage currently provides a home to 55 Sou…
Spiritual Leader Srimad Sai Rajarajeshwari – ‘Amma’ – of India Visits USA, July 2009
NEW YORK, June 17, 2009 — In this time of great upheaval and change on the planet, notably being experienced as uncertainty and insecurity in America, we are most fortunate for the opportunity to welcome the return visit of Divine Mother Srimad Sai Rajarajeshwari of Southern India, known lovingly…
Rich Southern History Comes Alive in New Novel
A Georgia Family’s Story to Beat Impossible Odds and Succeed
TAVARES, Fla., May 5, 2009 — Rich with history of those struggling to survive in the South during the 1940′s and 50′s, “The Long Desperate Road” (published by iUniverse) by Willie Cordell, chronicles t…
‘One’s Way Home’: The Tale of an Adopted Daughter and Her Quest to Find the Family Who Gave Her Up
MACHESNEY PARK, Ill., March 11, 2009 — Between 1854 and 1929 an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children were placed throughout the Midwest during what is known today as the Orphan Train Movement. R. Michael Buck’s mother was one of these children. This is the story of &…
