HAITI | FALL 2008
Since 1804, when it became the world’s first black republic after a successful slave revolt, Haiti has seen few periods of stability. Today the small Caribbean nation faces the most significant challenges of any country in the Western Hemisphere. In this failed state severe poverty, endemic corruption, high unemployment, pervasive hunger, and [...]

Under the streets of Ulaan Baatar, the coldest capital city in the world, many children struggle to survive the bitter winter. Munkhbat & Altangeret are both 15 and have lived in a manhole together for over 3 years.
A tough, lonely existence, violence from drunken adults and other street children is ever present and their [...]

We came to this world from the sea .
There will be a day, when the River of Time will take us back to the sea…

In autumn 2008 our son Ivan was born. We wanted him to hear the voice of the sea in his first winter. So, we went to the Crimea.
Traveling on a train [...]

I consider it hell on earth. Literally. The smell, the smoke, the heat, the conditions. No human should have to live here, work here, grow up here, exist here, yet thousands do.

For almost a century now Jharia coal mines have been burning in the state of Jharkhand, India. It’s one of the largest coal mines [...]

“Do you know where the Habibia college is?”
“Yes of course,” he said, lowering the taxi’s window and shaking my hand
“Can you take me there for 100 Afghani?”
“I am sorry, I can’t but what about 120?”
“Ok,then no problem.”

This was typical of the conversations I would have with taxi drivers as I tried to make [...]

 
The Canadian Family Farm has been a way of life for as long as Canada has been a nation.  It has fed a country and the world through a variety of international relief agencies.  Yet this longstanding noble profession is too facing an uncertain future.
Rising input costs, in seed, fuel, fertilzer and declining prices for [...]