Doubt the impact of Compassion International? Watch this
Compassion Friday from brian crow on Vimeo.
July 14, 2009
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: poverty, video · Posted in: Compassion International, Videos
Walls
Spring cleaning today. I wiped clean the walls in the family room, now free from a winter’s worth of wood stove dust. The walls, butter yellow, a color I painstakingly selected years ago. In the hallway, a dime-sized hole in that yellow Sheetrock. Each time I walk past that blip of an imperfection, my spirit [...]
April 26, 2009
· Monica Brand · 2 Comments
Tags: Compassion International, poverty · Posted in: Believing, Compassion International, Thinking
Follow Compassion Bloggers in India
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in India? What about in horrific poverty, in an Indian city famous for it’s slums and suffering? Bloggers traveling with Compassion International will describe those living conditions when they travel to Kolkata, (formally Calcutta) this week. It’s my job to tell you how you [...]
April 23, 2009
· Monica Brand · 2 Comments
Tags: Compassion International, poverty · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Compassion International
No-frills list o’ links
After a hiatus, I’m back to doing a once weekly list of links. It’s simple, I post the link, you click over or not. Read… if you dare. Warning: you may be feel emotions ranging from extreme anger to waves of sadness. Unless you’re heartless or dead. Do dead folk read blogs? Libbie Loves: Pride [...]
March 26, 2009
· Monica Brand · No Comments
Tags: domestic violence, human trafficking, poverty · Posted in: Links of interest, Women's issues
Don’t blog about Global Food Crisis Day
Don’t read the stats. Don’t look at the images of starving children. Don’t read books like this. Unless you want to mess with your head and heart and have your nice comfy worldview twisted around, shaken like a spiritual heartquake. I’m telling you – don’t get involved with Compassion International because these little ones suck [...]
March 11, 2009
· Monica Brand · 3 Comments
Tags: Compassion International, poverty · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Blogging, Compassion International
Numbers
In a country with high unemployment and over 4 million school-age children unable to go to school, it is not difficult to understand how trafficking can thrive. The latest government estimates in 2004 put the number of children trafficked for prostitution at 21,000 for Java and 70,000 for the whole of Indonesia. But the ILO [...]
March 8, 2009
· Monica Brand · One Comment
Tags: children, Indonesia, poverty · Posted in: Uncategorized
