Think Humanity, "a positive change for refugees in Africa"

In 2006 my daughter, Aimee Heckel, traveled to Uganda to visit a refugee camp as a journalist on assignment. She wrote a series on the life of refugees. My life changed. Education was a problem in the camp so I...

Climate Change to fuel hunger in poverty struck Southern Africa

By Miriam Mannak (story written for Inter Press Service) Climate change will have a significant impact on southern Africa’s already compromised food security, environmental experts warned. At the moment,...

Global Action Foundation Promotional Video

Witness the adventure that created the historical partnership between two young men who renewed hope for the war-wounded and hungry of Sierra Leone. Watch Dr. Mohamed Bailor Barrie travel to the remote village...

"I am just a medical student. How can I help people living in extreme poverty?"

“I am just a medical student. How can I help people living in extreme poverty?”   by John Daniel Kelly- Princeton Chemistry Department Newsletter ’07 submission For the first several weeks of my Global Health Fellowship in Sierra Leone, these thoughts...

Global Action Foundation funds National Organization for Welbody Malnutrition...

Read the letter from Dan Kelly to his Medical College Dean, Dr.Kuperman, for a sense of the reality of extreme poverty in Sierra Leone today."Tonight I boarded a plane at Freetown International Airport. Its partially lit welcome sign reminded me of the game show - wheel of...

Blood Diamonds Are Forever, Sierra Leone's Poor Must Not Be written by Joh...

Crossing the bridge to Koidu-Sefadu – home to the Sierra Leone blood diamonds – I stared at hundreds of people standing knee-deep in the river. I asked Dr. Barrie, “What are those people doing?” “Mining...

Global Action Foundation funds National Organization for Welbody Malnutrition...

Read the letter from Dan Kelly to his Medical College Dean, Dr.Kuperman, for a sense of the reality of extreme poverty in Sierra Leone today. "Tonight I boarded a plane at Freetown International Airport. Its...

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