All Blog Posts Tagged 'caring' (27)

Welcome to TLC NEPAL!

The organization ‘TLC’ was set up to help match volunteers with our projects working with children in our orphanage in Pokhara, Nepal. TLC facilitates services not Picture 4041only in Pokhara and the surrounding villages but also in the Kaski, Tanahu, Baglung,and Syangja districts of Nepal. There will not be any national and international…

Here's two ideas to think about real quick. Crowdsourcing is a way of funding new business projects where the public can contribute small amounts of money in exchange for small returns, like a mention on the media or a product to keep.

Jim White likes Gravity…

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.



Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is the founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes…

Civil rights activist and author Cornel West spoke Friday at the Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville. Read more here. 

(Original art work by William Rafti of the William Rafti Institute)

Every once in a while, I see something that gets my blood curdling, my skin into goosebumps. I don't want to look. I keep looking for a while and feel a sense of revulsion, or voyeurism, of even a bit of…

I dedicate this to my dog. You can dedicate this to your present family. I dedicate this to my mom. We can all dedicate this to the future families.

Read the rest here, at Elephant…

The last shuttle launch got me thinking about how important the space program has been in my life...

My father worked for General Electric in New York state (Schenectady?  Syracuse? one of the two) but he transferred to Daytona Beach when I was three.  Daytona Beach was selected because of its relative proximity…

Playing for Change put this video together. What a great way to start the day! Enjoy...…

Wherever You Go There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn is a good book explaining one man’s view of meditation…

{Note: this article was originally published here on Elephant Journal}

 Meditation can be as simple as you like. Basically, we know meditation is all about clearing our mind for a time. It’s hard to not think about…

I met Kristian at the Hawthorne Hostel in Portland, just as he was heading out to India in July, 2009. Here's a link to his Zoobird page: http://www.zoobird.com/profile/KristianStieglelr

He's traveled around on a motorcycle. He spends some time working with an orphanage in Pokhara…

(photo by Michael Levin www.zoobird.com)

“Hope is the thing with feathers,

that perches in the soul,

and sings the song without the words,

and never stops at all.”



Emily Dickinson

HOME VAN PET CARE PROJECT NEWS – October 2010

From: Elizabeth Howard, Project Coordinator…