From my friend Mohammed working in Palestine: As a Kiva Fellow currently working with two microfinance organizations in the West Bank (Palestinian Territories), I am embarking on a goal to stre...
https://nickysmith.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/kivapalestine-lending-team-goal/
In Bangalore, the city I am working in and the third largest city in India, there has been no local government for three years! With the upcoming local elections, I am sitting in a meeting wi...
I’ll be writing more on this soon, but please read the below petition and click on the link to sign PETITION Dear Mr. Chidambaram, Hon’ble Home Minister of India cc. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime...
https://nickysmith.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/petition-against-military-offensive-in-central-india/
“If you can not express yourself you are already behind bars” Mbana Kaitako
https://nickysmith.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/great-quote-from-friend/
South Korea: Woman passes driver’s licence exam on 950th attempt * Associated Press in Seoul (from my friend Becca) “A woman in South Korea who had tried to pass the written exam for her driv...
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Nationally, only 10 percent of the more than 23 million people who need addiction treatment actually receive it. –The Milwaukee Addiction Treatment Initiative (MATI) As the health care debate p...
Let me remind you all of one thing: this is not a game we are playing for fun and entertainment – this is a fight we must win. – Bhuvan I first read about this film in my friend Marcos’...
Putting the Y in Bollywood I am bringing Bollywood back to Wisconsin (although Wollywood sounds too much like Dollywood or Wally World so yea we’ll have to bring in the ad wizards on this one (...
April Eats Fizzinoodle is Finnish for “My friend in Bangalore April has an awesome blog”. I wanted to share the link and the quote she uses from Freire (April is working on teachers and stude...
https://nickysmith.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/freire-food-and-fizzinoodle-aprils-awesome-blog/