Month: April 2017

Woman smiling with African children.

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste”

04/24/2017

I witnessed something that reminded me of the public service marketing slogan, โ€œA mind is a terrible thing to waste,โ€ which was adopted by the United Negro College Fund in 1972. The brilliance of the campaign at the time was…

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Woman and girl in African slum.

Shadia’s life changed the day her mother died.

04/06/2017

From what I can tell, Shadia grew up in a loving home; she attended school and was cared for by her mother. But when her mother passed due to complications from AIDS, everything changed. Now 17, Shadia has been on…

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