Corene Israel talks with Daren Wendell about his motivation to do the Earth Expedition. Read More

Every 12.6 seconds, someone is infected with HIV (www.worldvision.ca). By 2010, it is predicted that as many as 40 million children in developing countries will have lost either one or both parents to the disease (www.undp.org).

We've heard the facts, but do we know their stories?

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Every 12.6 seconds, someone is infected with HIV (www.worldvision.ca). By 2010, it is predicted that as many as 40 million children in developing countries will have lost either one or both parents to the disease (www.undp.org).

We've heard the facts, but do we know their stories?

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Our minds are such an intricate part of our bodies aren’t they? One minute we can be thinking about a memory that takes us back to a certain place in time instantaneously and the next minute we can be thinking about “So do you pronounce it Care-e-mel or Car-e-mel?” As we go through life we often find ourselves in this tension in our minds. We wrestle with the tension between truly logical and intellectual thoughts and with thoughts that just simply leave us questioning. If there is one thought pattern that I find myself in most days it is a thought pattern that I like to call “The world within the world.” It is a place that I find myself armed for battle with what is truly real and what is simply imagination. Usually I camp out at this tension driven thought pattern when I am thinking about my relationships with people.

The World Food Day sounds like a celebration of deliciousness, conjuring images of feasts from cultures all over the globe; however, Oct. 16 represents a day of concern for more than 850 million people who are suffering. More than 150 countries participated on this day of awareness for the world’s hungry and malnourished. The theme this year was The Right to Food, but even though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes the right to food, unfortunately not everyone has access to safe, nutritious food, or enough of it. Read More