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Volunteering Abroad: The How-To’s

Volunteering abroad is a very rewarding way to spend your gap year or vacation, and it is not difficult to find work as a volunteer abroad and both give and receive benefits for doing so. You will not only find the experience rich and rewarding, but also help those living

7 Apps to Make the World Better

Everyone is rich in ambition and poor on time when it comes to making a difference. Being conscious about your environment and society doesn’t necessarily have to mean skipping work, making time, or being out and about getting amidst it all. In today’s day age and day, one can help make a

Help Kids with Cancer

By BC Phillips One of the darker elements of human nature is our propensity to seek out reasons to avoid helping others. It’s easy to maintain our sense that we are good and just when an external factor is present that makes the misfortunes of others due to their own faults.

The Superpowers of Trees

We've all learnt about the one superpower that all trees have - converting carbon dioxide to oxygen and helping life on earth tick along in the process. But, trees contribute to our ecosystem in far more ways. Be it climate control, providing nutrition or acting as a habitat for millions,

Virtual Volunteering: Helping Others From Your Home

Many people would love to get more involved in volunteer work, but it can be difficult, especially when you're already so busy with your own life. That's where virtual volunteering comes in. There are many ways (both large and small) to help your fellow humans right from your own computer. Being

The Human In Us [poetry]

The Human In Us

By Ishmael True story, envision it as if it is happening as I tell you now. Traffic on the freeway, a little girl is eating a chocolate mint ice cream in the back of an SUV. A business man looks over at the child in his fresh off the lot BMW. He smiles

Top Five Apps That Are Helping People Right Now

Good Guide The good guide app allows you to scan, search or browse products, brands and companies. Through it’s rating system, it will help you make better shopping decisions not only for your own health, but also for the environment, and gives you more socially responsible choices.   Share The Meal This app from

Saving the Arctic

Saving the Arctic

Tabitha Freeman The Arctic is one of the most majestic and beautiful places in the world. It houses incredible life forms such as polar bears, penguins, narwhals, and walruses and is becomes almost a kind of surreal painting to the eye. Even further, aside from the aesthetics, the Arctic is a

Help refugees thrive, not just survive [VIDEO]

Help refugees thrive, not just survive

Ted Talk by Melissa Fleming 50 million people in the world today have been forcefully displaced from their home — a level not seen since WWII. Right now, more than 3 million Syrian refugees are seeking shelter in neighboring countries. In Lebanon, half of these refugees are children; only 20% are in

Sports & Social Inclusion

By Justine Curatolo Sport is universal. “Sport speaks to people in a language they can understand.”  It transcends boundaries and provides opportunities for all human beings regardless of race, colour, religion, age, physical ability, circumstance or economic background to connect with each other and the world around them. Further, sport can

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