by Beyond Borders | Sep 30, 2013 | Ending Child Slavery, Our Blog, Providing Rural Education
We won’t stop doing this work until every Haitian child has the freedom to sing, dance, and play like this vibrant young girl. Every time I watch my daughter perform with her classmates – from concerts to poetry recitals — I cry. I cry...
by Beyond Borders | Sep 20, 2013 | Ending Child Slavery, Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Our Blog
Too often it seems like the idea of practicing peace is dismissed as a naive, idealistic, pie-in-the-sky concept that’s just ‘too simplistic’ for our complex and dangerous world. Assad is using chemical weapons in Syria, Egypt is in the midst of a...
by Beyond Borders | Sep 19, 2013 | Our Blog
Thursday, September 19, 2013 We believe that not just education, but girls’ education, is one of the best ways to alleviate global issues and change the course of an entire community’s future. Joining the many others who believe this, too, on Friday,...
by Beyond Borders | Sep 17, 2013 | Our Blog
Please join us at Politics & Prose TONIGHT 9/17 @ 7 pm for a book reading by Haiti’s most renowned novelist, Edwidge Danticat. Danticat’s latest novel, Claire of the Sea Light, tells the story of 7-year-old Claire and her fisherman...
by Beyond Borders | Sep 16, 2013 | Our Blog
On Saturday, Oct. 5, we have a unique opportunity to raise awareness about modern slavery around the world at the UNBOUND Stop Modern Slavery walk on the National Mall. The event, hosted by DC Stop Modern Slavery, with many local partners in the...
