All Entries in the "Making A Difference" Category
PeaceJam - Brett Engle
This year on September 11-13th, we’re doing another PeaceJam International Youth Conference, this time in Los Angeles with 7 Nobel Peace Laureates. 3,000 Jammers from around the world are flying, driving, and busing in to take on The Global Call to Action, a plan to address the 10 core issues which the Nobel’s feel threaten the world over this next decade, by implementing 1 BILLION service projects.
Changing the world one pillow at a time — Danielle Sobol
While working at a pediatric cardiology clinic in Israel last year with Zanzibari children, grad student Danielle Sobol became fascinated with their culture. She went to Zanzibar and met a group of truly amazing women and discovered that while her basic computer skills were very helpful to them, they were making a difference themselves with their not-so-basic skills making pillows.