Author Archives: admin

Numbers don’t always tell the entire story. For instance, today, December 1, is World AIDS Day. If you look at the statistics, 30.8 million adults were living infected with HIV/AIDS worldwide the end of 2009. There were also 2.5 million … Continue reading →

Late last night, I was catching up with a renowned technology blogger and entrepreneur and I showed him what we are beginning to do on Twitter and on the blog. He asked me quite bluntly, “will anyone actually click a link … Continue reading →

I began a conversation with a friend the other day and mentioned that I was reading up on orphanages. His face went pale for a second, and his visceral reaction was of disgust.“Orphanages are horrible places,” he remarked, “terrible things … Continue reading →

Upon starting to research orphanages, every book I read quickly qualified that many of the inhabitants of orphanages throughout the ages, were not in fact full orphans. Many were half-orphans, for instance. Or my aunt told me about how many … Continue reading →

Upon deciding to blog about the plight of orphans and the state of orphanages around the world, I quickly found that I had writer’s block. In the past, I’ve spoken with many people who work with underprivileged children, I’ve read … Continue reading →