Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas. They have programs in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East and Cyprus. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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MAY 6, 2021

These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have protected hundreds of species from extinction.” A year after that, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act and soon after the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.?These Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

If you look at the history in South Africa, and the movement to end the apartheid regime, or if you look at the revolution in Cuba, where literally the island was essentially a playground for rich people from the United States.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa), talked about the opportunities in market failure. She also explained that the illiterate poor women she serves are more committed to literacy for their children than for themselves. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children. The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. They have also put together a child care center.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

We are watching from San Antonio with 2 of our children having the Swine Flu. After being recently divorced, my family, two grown beautiful children, with their wonderful mother, were in shul this evening in NYC. Lots of love from South Africa! Thank you for allowing us to participate. I was alone tonight. You saved me.

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JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. I noticed many children not in school and the large proportion of them were girls.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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