Jaye Starr discusses how she combines her Muslim faith with social justice, humanitarian work, theater and the circus. Tell me how you got started. I don’t recall a point when I “got started,” but there I was greatly influenced by three books I read as a child: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Alicia: My …
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What do a talking dove, a grumpy seagull and a stray kitten have to do with world peace? Plenty. The talking dove is the central character in The World of Ambassador Bird, a children’s media brand that invites peace-loving companies to partner with them in empowering families and children around the world. The multi-national main …
A Brazilian educator shares how he works with the capital’s marginalized people to raise awareness about the environment. What interests you most about what you’re doing now? Currently, my greatest interest is to empower the youth of the Itapoã community (an extremely poor area near Brazil’s capital city) to create an Ecological Park and to …
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