Posted on October 29, 2009 by 40brown
Glenn Close has won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Tony, and has been nominated for an Oscar, but she still can’t seem to get a simple PSA right. She and her sister Jessie, who has bi-polar disorder, have recently launched a new campaign to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness- but are they [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2009 by 40brown
This was one of the questions I addressed in my masters thesis this past summer. Specifically, I wanted to explore how different cultural interpretations of disability would affect communication efforts to reduce stigma in developing countries. More on that later.
As I was doing research, I came across a very interesting campaign from Scotland. The tagline [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2009 by 40brown
Last semester I took a course on children in international development. It was an amazing overview of some of the particular development issues that hit children – child labor, trafficking, education in crisis, early marriage, HIV/AIDS to name a few.
The final project for the course was a case study and we were partnered up with [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by 40brown
Cyber Monday marks the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season… something akin to Black Friday for the brick and mortar stores.
There are deals and steals and bargains galore. Free shipping, 20, 30, 40% off, buy one, get one free…. you name it, you can find it online.
But don’t forget the nonprofits! Giving online [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2008 by 40brown
Today is Blog Action Day, and I’m taking part! On this day bloggers around the world are focusing on poverty, and hopefully encouraging their readers to take action!
I’m sure there will be lots of wonderful blog posts around the causes and solutions to global poverty – debt reduction, food crisis, international [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, International Development, advocacy, social media | Tagged: Africa, blog action day, causes of poverty, Disability, disability awareness, international aid, POA, poverty | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2007 by 40brown
A few days ago I read a very disturbing article about the Taliban’s recruitment of people with disabilities. After yesterday’s suicide bombing in Kabul, I thought I would share it. The image that haunts me is of a man with obvious mental disabilities who had been recruited by the Taliban to be a suicide bomber. [...]
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