The AJWS community has a lot to say about what's happening in the world. Read our insights about the struggle for justice and human rights around the globe — and meet the activists on the frontlines of the fight to build a better world.
I am both deeply saddened and shaken by the powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday afternoon. Three million people — about a third of Haiti’s population — have been affected by the quake. Hundreds of thousands of people are without food, water and other basic needs, and casualties have been estimated in the tens of …
With 2010 under way, Nicholas Kristof is filling us in on “the world’s most scrumptious, healthful, gratifying food” – micronutrients such as folic acid and iodine. They’re a lot cheaper than the ingredients that comprise our daily diets—a year’s supply of micronutrients costs less than the cheapest hamburger—and yet their absence from the diets of …
Back in October, I attended a permaculture workshop at a retreat center in upstate New York. I learned all about food forests, grafting, sheet mulching and many other agro-ecological farming techniques about which I knew little. I was surprised—and delighted!—to learn that many of these techniques are being implemented in the developing world, too. Hundreds …
“Kitchen gardens in Kenya” is not a phrase we hear often, but for many people, that phrase is the key to survival. In a country of nearly 35 million people, malnutrition and hunger are staggering problems, particularly for Kenyan children, orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS. In the rural, western regions of Kenya, sustaining basic …
We’re still savoring the success of AJWS’s first benefit event for Global Circle—a new program for young professionals committed to global justice—that took place in New York City about two weeks ago. The room was bursting with the energy of more than 350 people gathered together to support AJWS’s work in the fight against hunger. …
