In 1983, Vivian Stromberg traveled with a women’s delegation to Nicaragua in the midst of a brutal civil war. There, she witnessed day care centers, schools and clinics that had been bombed by the U.S.-backed Contra armies. Stromberg and her American colleagues wanted ...
We all know that that time of the month is a pain, but who knew that it causes millions of women to lose up to 45 days of work and school every year? And for something as basic as a lack of sanitary ...
After being solicited for sex by a barrage of very young girls while traveling through Cambodia, Guy Jacobson learned two things: First, child sexploitation was not something many people talked about, or even knew about. Second, the solution was not just to remove ...
Remember how dull (and awkward!) your high school sex ed and life skills classes were? Maura Minsky, co-Founder and Executive Director of Scenarios USA, has a different approach: let young people do the teaching - through film. Scenarios USA solicits screenplays from youth, ...
Bill Abram’s jokes that when he was hired as president of Trickle Up the staff "thought the board had lost its mind.” He'd spent 30 years in the media industry, where the goal is to maximize profits not to pursue social impact. Nonetheless, ...