Posted on May 10, 2013
Motivated by her own complicated pregnancy, Heidi Breeze-Harris founded One by One, a Seattle-based organization working to wipe out obstetric fistula in Africa.
When Heidi Breeze-Harris realized she was going to be laid up for most of a very complicated pregnancy, she worried about how she would pass the time.
But the answer arrived in the first month. Breeze-Harris was in bed, watching an episode of Oprah, when she first learned about the birthing injury obstetric fistula. Read More “Seattle’s fight against fistulas around the world”
Posted on April 25, 2013
Global Washington Executive Director Bookda Gheisar was a guest on Billions Rising radio show. The subject was self reliance on a global scale and how that starts at home. Read More “Local Focus To Solve the World’s Problems”
Posted on April 15, 2013
How do you build in a place where termites are eating away existing public infrastructure? This is the challenge for James Lloyd, a carpenter from the UK, who was sent to the Solomon Islands in February to build a two-story school building for the children of Tulagi Island. James is a volunteer project manager for Construction for Change (CfC), a Seattle-based non-profit organization that provides professional construction services to organizations working to end poverty worldwide. He will stay in the Solomon Islands as long as it takes to complete the project.
Tulagi residents and the U.S. Marine Raiders Foundation (USMRF) Read More “Construction for Change: Marines to Engineer Hope in the Solomon Islands”