Global/Local
Global/Local
Kids, kitchenware make a difference to poor in Philippines
After two months and thousands of miles, kitchenware from Minnesota arrived in the Philippines to change the lives of needy families. MORE »
China’s Olympics an awesome spectacle
The Olympic flame has been extinguished, marking the end of the XXIX Summer Olympic Games. For me, the glow of the flame will not soon fade. MORE »
Eritreans in Minnesota weigh a dream gone mad
The following headline popped up last week in my email alerts set for Eritrea, a tiny nation bordering the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa: “Eritrea Shuts Christian Students into Shipping Containers.”
Shipping containers? What on earth is happening in Eritrea?
I know Eritrea is small, but Georgia is small, too. In such small places we often glimpse our fates and futures. MORE »
Remembering the Sichuan earthquake: "We are not alone"
HANGZHOU, CHINA—“Our President, Hu Jintao, said little, but did a lot,” reflected a Sichuan resident on the Chinese government’s actions in response to the earthquake that occurred on May 12 in the Sichuan province, 50 miles west northwest of the capital city of Chengdu. “Anders,” who requested I not use his real name, is a 25-year-old textile industry account executive in the city of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, where people in high-rise office buildings felt the tremors of the 8.0 earthquake. Hangzhou is 960 miles to the east of Chengdu. MORE »
