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Written by Ashley Emert
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 02:00 |
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Author Kent Annan has been working the past several years to help change Haiti through education with the nonprofit organization Haiti Partners. Having split his time between Florida and Haiti for the past few years, he, like millions around the world, was heartbroken at the devastation caused by the earthquake. We talked to him between trips to Haiti about the people there, the media coverage and the next steps necessary for recovery.
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Written by Rachel Boettner
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:00 |
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I stepped on African soil and fell in love. Love like this: cool water on hot skin. Love like this: quick flames on dry grass. Love cool and peaceful, love overwhelming and chaotic. Mountains explode from the grass like a volcano’s eruption frozen in time. The air is vanilla and wood smoke, a byproduct of the fields they burn every winter to cut their losses when it’s time for wildfires.
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Written by Alyce Gilligan
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 10:33 |
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Social consciousness is the latest successful sales pitch, prompting a number of companies to create products or alter business plans to appeal to the consumer’s inner humanitarian. Sometimes, it’s just business as usual. But other times, there is someone like Tyler Merrick behind a company with heart like Project 7.
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Written by Ashley Emert
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 02:00 |
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Jeremy Cowart is a photographer based out of Nashville, Tenn., who has worked with everyone from Switchfoot to Imogen Heap, and even done promo shots for TV shows like Ruby and editorial spots for charity: water. After seeing images coming out of Haiti after the earthquake, he felt compelled to travel to the devastated country and take photos of the people. Over the course of the next several weeks, he'll be releasing a photo a day that people can buy, with all proceeds going to A Home in Haiti. Here, he talks to us about what he saw, his hope for the photos and what surprised him most about the people in the earthquake-ravaged country.
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Written by Morgan Hansow
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 02:00 |
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The other night as we were discussing the potential funding for a documentary we’re beginning to work on, it was suggested (by someone outside of LGH) that we make our situation as an organization look more desperate, more needy and more vocal regarding our “desperateness.” That unless we begin to communicate how needy our organization is for donations or specific donors, we cannot expect people to get behind our organization or cause. Needless to say, I was a little disheartened and here’s the weird thing: It wasn’t for Light Gives Heat (LGH), or myself but for the very limited and boxed-in view of nonprofit work that most people tend to have.
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