Denver-based humanitarian organization the 1010 Project recently joined Global Giving on a challenge to raise $4000 in one month to fund a computer lab in a partner school in Kenya. The group’s supporters successfully met the challenge, raising enough money to provide computers for Candlelight School’s 307 students and securing the 1010 project a permanent [...]
Our friend MacGoddins Lushimba stopped by recently to record his story of leaving his country of DRC and the time he spent in a refugee camp in Namibia. He told us about the challenges he faced in the camp and why he became an advocate for refugee rights. Check out the video below:
Refugee Rights Activist [...]
Earlier this month we were invited to attend a reception at Gallery 910 Arts which is currently exhibiting the work of local photographer Tim Ryan. Tim Ryan and his company (Tim Ryan Pictures) partnered with non-profit organization Water for People (WFP) to produce images of the people in countries where WFP works. The exhibit now [...]
Sensai Tate co-founded the Hiphocalypse Radio Show in 2000, broadcast on Rhodes Music Radio out of Grahamstown, South Africa. A native of Zimbabwe, Tate grew the success of the radio show into the Hiphocalypse MOVEment, a movement for the advancement of sustainable youth development in Southern Africa through the use of hip hop culture.
In 2006 [...]
We had the opportunity to speak with Mangar Amerdid, the founder and Executive Director of the Leadership Institute of New Sudan (LIONS) to learn more about the program. Visit www.sudanlions.org for more information.
This interview is the first in a series we will be conducting with influential Africans in the metro Denver and Boulder areas. [...]
