Charitable causes
VIDEO: CULTURScelebrates! the community kitchen, Theme – Kenya
CultursCELEBRATES! is a community kitchen and global gathering that celebrates the food and traditions of cultures around the world. We supplement our global gathering by creating an easy-to-follow kit that provides everything you need to throw your own cultural-themed celebration […]
SERIES, PART III OF III – Love & Ohana: The Story of an Unstoppable Cross-Cultured Family
Parts one and two of this family-based series explored the lives of Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile, the two daughters of Fauna Hodel. Hodel was born in 1951 to a prominent white family in California. Before birth, Hodel was bargained […]
Ruth Van Reken: The Power of Passion
Global diversity and all its surrounding divisions, classifications, misconceptions, struggles, ideas and linking factors have never been more complicated to define. However, Ruth Van Reken, co-founder of Families in Global Transition (FIGT) and co-author of “Third Culture Kids: Growing Up […]
VIDEO: Beyond Color – Fauna Hodel’s Story – “So over the race card”
Fauna Hodel has dedicated her life to overcoming color. Her mission is to share “the color of love,” as she says, she’s “so over the race card.” A caucasian-American who was raised by a black family in segregation era Reno […]
How Two Americans are Empowering Women in India to Leave the Sex Trade and Become Designers
Anchal [on-chal] – noun the edge of a sari used to provide comfort and protection to loved ones Shelter In 2012, the International Labor Organization ILO reported that almost 21 million people are victims of forced labor. Of those 20.9 […]
Human Rights Cinema Part 1: The World’s First Human Rights Festival
Envision a collection of images quickly flashing before your eyes that is emotionally riveting, tear-inducing, action-inciting, and most of all, thought-provoking. Enter the world of human rights cinema. The New York Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in 1988 […]
Italy Turns Death Into Rebirth: The Capsula Mundi Project
The Capsula Mundi Project (Capsule World Project) designed by Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel of Milan, Italy, has created a new perspective for people across the world on the topic of cemeteries. Instead of being embalmed and injected full of chemicals […]
African safari inspires change through the power of yoga
Little did Paige Elenson’s parents know that trip to Kenya, Africa would change their daughter’s life. As a teenager on safari with her father, Elenson was intrigued by young men doing handstands in the middle of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. […]
