Charitable causes
CultursTV: Random Acts of Theatre produces “Annie Jr.”
“It’s a hard knock life for us.” That’s the famous chant as sung by Parker, Colorado’s Random Acts of Theatre Company, or RATCO, in its recent play, “Annie Jr.” This production is a special rendition of the Broadway musical “Annie,” […]
PROOF: Media for Social Justice, A Human Rights Photo Editor’s Legacy
PROOF: MEDIA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE “In a way they are activists because the work they’re doing is very dangerous. I believe they’re very brave and very courageous in the work that they do, even though their role is not to […]
International Human Rights Organization Dives Deep into Local Lives to Dig Up Injustice
PROOF: Media For Social Justice “Lots of the exhibitions we create, are real peoples voices and testimonies, and I think they’re very powerful and able to touch people in a way that anonymous articles don’t have the power to do.” – […]
International Human Trafficking Prevention Taken to a New Level
Each year, 600,000-800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders. Approximately 80 percent are women and girls. Human trafficking is the second largest source of illegal income worldwide, exceeded only by drug trafficking. International organization Stop the Traffik […]
Women’s empowerment in Pakistan: Four Lessons to Learn
“I understood then what it meant to be a woman in the harshest circumstances in the world and to have your very existence be a source of shame.” Named one of Time Magazine’s 30 under 30 world changers and Forbes 30 […]
CultursCASA: A Place for Global Gathering
This is my dream. To inhabit or restore a historic building with a lot of character. To take a building that has seen many, and bring in barreling into the 21st Century by having different Cultures, People, Food, Art and […]
Neo Liberalism Part 4: What Can We Do?
Throughout this series, we have discussed how big government structural adjustment programs and multilateral financial institutions perpetuate Neoliberalism. They use a top down approach to poverty reduction, that doesn’t really help those who are most impoverished. So, what can we […]
Africa Yoga Project: Changing lives through the practice of yoga
The Africa Yoga Project’s vision is to inspire and empower individuals through the restoring practice of yoga. The Kenyan organization’s 98 trained and dedicated yoga instructors hold 350 classes a week in prisons, schools, rural villages, HIV/AIDS support groups, special-accommodation centers […]
