Experience A Refugee Camp At Home, Via MSF

By Kate | July 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) is organizing a refugee camp simulation so those who haven’t had to take shelter at a real one can get some sense of what... [Read this entry]

World Refugee Day And Volunteering With Refugees

By Kate | June 23rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »

June 20 is World Refugee Day and thanks to an email sent out by the International Refugee Committee, I can link to the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner on Refugees) special... [Read this entry]

Around The Web On Volunteering: June 7

By Kate | June 7th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

The story of the founder of i-to-i volunteer placement organization, who just sold the business for £20 million.

Smiling in the same language: students volunteer with refugees in Pennsylvania.

A Stanford... [Read this entry]

Help Publicize A Women’s Cause For Mother’s Day

By Kate | May 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Do something special for your mom on Mother’s Day (especially relevant if you’re in the US or one of the other countries celebrating mothers on Sunday, but certainly possible elsewhere)... [Read this entry]

Reporters (And Others) Without Borders

By Kate | April 21st, 2007 | Add a Comment »

According to Reporters Without Borders, “Today, more than 130 journalists around the world are in prison simply for doing their job. In Nepal, Eritrea and China, they can spend years... [Read this entry]

Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

By Kate | February 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders is definitely one of the best-known non-profits and it’s not surprising why: it’s easy to see the good in providing free or... [Read this entry]