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My Race is Human…and Asian

Tes Silverman — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:01:09 +0000

When you walk down the street, can you tell what nationality I am? Can you tell from the color of my skin that I’m American, besides being Asian? Or even more so, an Asian Jew? These questions may not enter one’s mind in passing, but don’t we all have preconceived ideas about anyone we see […]

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India: Voices of High School Students: Altruism from Youth #YouthDay #OmegaIntlSchool

Purnima Ramakrishnan — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:34:25 +0000

On the International Day of Youth, World Moms Network – Senior Editor, Purnima from India, met with a few young high school students. Read on to find their take on the state of affairs of the world, their life ahead in times of this pandemic, their passion, their ways of achieving their dreams and goals, […]

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World Voice: Can Meditation Impact Gun Laws?

Tes Silverman — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 02:08:32 +0000

Sandy Hook, CT, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, FL, Great Mills High School, MD school shootings should be enough to make anyone frustrated and livid about all the senseless violence, but sadly, no. Even more disheartening was the most recent shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee in which a semi-nude gunman walked in and […]

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PUERTO RICO: Preparing For Maria

World Moms Network — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:53:11 +0000

Puerto Rico is a US Territory an the Caribbean. There are 3.4 million American citizens living there and yet two months later many homes are still without electricity, and still some without running water. Maria came thirteen days after Hurricane Irma, another category 5 hurricane, passed north of us. Irma devastated some of the neighboring […]

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A Global Day of Giving! #GivingTuesday

Elizabeth Atalay — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:30:00 +0000

Giving Tuesday was created to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season. It has become an international movement around the holidays dedicated to giving, in the same way that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now synonymous with holiday shopping. After the frenzied commercialism of Black Friday sales (that now […]

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USA: Today Is World Polio Day 2017

Elizabeth Atalay — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:23:07 +0000

Last year I spoke at the United Nations Foundation Shot@Life Summit to a room of almost 200 advocates for global vaccines from all over the country. I had a story to tell, as many of us do, though you might not know it. The story of how Polio touched the lives of so many goes […]

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World Voice: From PranaPrathishta to Pranahuti – The Transformative Possibilities

Purnima Ramakrishnan — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:00:35 +0000

There was an air of pious anticipation, that one could almost hear the elephants trumpeting while carrying huge granite stones to build the temple, one could almost hear the hum of the 400 odd dancing damsels’ and their anklets tinkling, while dancing for Lord Shiva (as the lore tells), and one could almost envision the […]

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WORLD VOICE: The Convention On The Rights Of The Child

Jennifer Prestholdt (USA) — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:41:58 +0000

When we become parents, we make a promise to our children that we will do everything in our power to protect them and to help them learn, grow and thrive. But did you know that the world has made a similar promise to all children to protect and promote their rights to reach their full potential? On November […]

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WORLD VOICE: Go #Lunchless To Fight Child Hunger

Elizabeth Atalay — Wed, 10 May 2017 05:00:00 +0000

Save The Children has launched the #Lunchless campaign this month to help raise awareness of the severe growing hunger crisis in East Africa. The world needs to act now to save the nearly 20 million lives that are at risk in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda where children are suffering from extreme hunger. Families in […]

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WORLD VOICE: NovaVeil Introduces Fashion To protect Against Zika

Elizabeth Atalay — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 05:00:31 +0000

Three heartbreaking stories of families impacted by the Zika virus were highlighted this week in a Sunday New York Times article. Although last year’s Zika crisis is no longer making regular headlines, the World Health Organization now considers Zika a continuing health threat along the lines of Malaria or Yellow Fever. As the babies […]

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