Container Ship: Aid in a Box
The vision is simple. The vision is BIG. Deliver modular aid using ships, like the YWAM Liberty in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to otherwise isolated communities on islands in the South Pacific. It’s a radical idea – and it’s working! The Liberty is a 1700-tonne supply ship, redesigned to handle full-size shipping containers pre-assembled as […]
Spoonful of Sugar
“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” ~ Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964) Oddly enough, the opposite is true in Marikina, Philippines. There, medicine is being delivered to help children regain health and appetite, thanks to the work of small, non-profit agencies, like Action International . Typhoon Ondoy hit the Philippines in September, […]
Can you dig it?
Had the chance to join writer Mike Gingrich on assignment for Jeepney magazine… a fledgling street mag geared to help the urban poor get a leg up on life. The Pinoy term Mangangalakal can mean entrepreneur, but in the relocated squatter community of Tansa 1, it refers to individuals with a salvage lisence for the […]
