After a year in which people stayed apart, two Berkley communities are starting the new year growing together. Throughout the summer and autumn, Yad Ezra, a Jewish nonprofit that provides kosher food to Jewish families in need, partnered with neighboring Our Lady of La Salette Church in Berkley to expand its food-growing operation with the…
“YWCA Kalamazoo recognizes our responsibility to create equitable access not only to supportive services but also to pathways for employment,” YWCA Kalamazoo’s CEO Dr. Grace Lubwama said. “This career pathway is an example of work at the intersection of education and equity.” YWCA Childcare Center Article
As an elderly widow who lives along the riverside; Theresie is one of the poorest of the poor. But still, she continues to heed the call to serve her community. Since the war in Rwanda in 1994, she takes in orphaned children. The orphans of the genocide are grown up. But, her days as a…
For some families, the value of clean water is hard to define. For other families, the price of clean water is more straightforward. Francine and Issac are the parents of two small children, a daughter and son. They live in a rural community in Rwanda, where clean water is scarce. Because they knew that their…
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Terry Whitfiled, Program Officer, The Skillman Foundation and 100 Black Men Member Saying that 2020 has been a tough year is an understatement. COVID-19 has turned our world upside down in ways that will reverberate throughout history, changing how we interact with each other for the foreseeable future. To maintain health and safety, we have…