Verizon Collects 35,000 Phones For Domestic Violence Program.

by Heather Wood on January 29, 2009

Verizon released collection numbers for its HopeLine program for 2008 and the figure was an astounding 35,000.  HopeLine is a mobile phone collection program that Verizon launched as a way to provide victims of domestic violence access to a phone with wireless service.  Victims can also dial #HOPE from their phones and get instantly connected to a local domestic violence agency. (more…)

A great opportunity for artists of all kinds to use their talents to fight modern day slavery.  The NGO Giving Children Hope is hosting an art exhibit which will feature local artists’ response to human slavery around the world. (more…)

By Judith Soares on January 28, 2009

The history of women is one of repeated injuries against this social group, which has been campaigning for ages for a just social order based on the abolition of discriminatory practices against them and in favour of their male counterparts. At the first international conference on the rights of women held in July1848 in the United States of America, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, campaigner for women’s rights, presented a Declaration of Sentiments which enumerated areas of social life in which women were unjustly treated. These included legal, educational, religious, economic, political and family matters. More than 160 years later, women are still demanding their rights in a world where men continue to exercise “tyranny” over women in every aspect of life. (more…)

Whether you voted for Obama or whether you lean to the right, one thing is undeniable: There is a new sense of hope in the air that we are breathing now. Who knows what the new year will bring us. For victims of human trafficking, there is hope and it is coming in the form of two pretty remarkable change agents who have dedicated themselves to making the world a safer place.  (more…)

I remember back in 2004 the mission of the FreeGirl Foundation was pretty vague. It was a general statement that said we wanted to address health, education, and pretty much everything that affected the female community. (more…)