By Kristin Coveney Eric Mulwanyi and his five siblings grew up in a rural, Ugandan village with only their mother to raise them. While some might view this as an insurmountable obstacle, Eric saw an opportunity. He now helps youths to develop their own businesses by promoting cheap, modern pig rearing techniques, and forming savings and loan associations. Eric originally set out to translate classroom ideas into tangible projects through low-cost, advanced farming. However, after the 2010 Global Engagement Summit, he refined ...

By Tadelech Mengesha In the current U.S. economy, more and more U.S. citizens are beginning to live lives that resemble that of third-world people. Luckily, the United States is fortunate enough to establish homeless shelters for people in need; but even these are sometimes not adequate enough to give these families opportunities to fully rise out of poverty. However, United States is even luckier to have people like Calla Hales. Calla is a junior at Hofstra University, who like many other college ...

By David Chase Background History When I was in Cairo studying abroad during my junior year, I ended up spending most of my time tutoring Sudanese refugees in English. The experience was on the one hand more captivating than any other sort of volunteer work I'd ever done -- these people would literally line up for hours for 15 minutes that might help them improve their lives and the lives of their families -- yet on the other, demonstrated what little capacity ...