I love products with a purpose! There are many out there to choose from Toms, to Panda sunglasses to fair trade bracelets. Now, there is a new watch on the block that will launch on Monday on IndieGoGo called the 1: Face watch. Each watch color corresponds to a different cause. Pink supports breast cancer, red is for HIV/AIDS, white is for hunger, yellow is for … Continue reading The 1:Face Watch Supports Global Causes
When living in tropical and subtropical regions of the world people are susceptible to all manner of diseases from malaria to hookworm. One of the seven most common neglected tropical diseases is elephantiasis, or lymphatic filariasis. To the lay person it is simply called “big foot”. Elephantiasis is caused by female mosquitos biting on its victims and releasing larvae into one’s skin. Those larvae grow … Continue reading Help Free Sierra Leone from Its Elephantiasis Epidemic
We are happy to publish the latest news from our partner Worldwide Fistula Fund. They do amazing work for women with obstetric fistulas. Please make a donation to help them continue the work they do. From the Worldwide Fistula Fund: Summer has been busy at the Danja Fistula Center. In July, a team of six people flew to Niger to assist the staff with patient … Continue reading Why One Woman Traveled from Algeria to Niger for Fistula Surgery
With so many communicable diseases plaguing the African continent we often forget about the non-communicable diseases that ravish its people as well. Did you know that cervical cancer is the number one cancer killer of women in Africa? Taking the lives of roughly 270,000 African women each year, Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, has been studying the rate of cervical cancer in women … Continue reading Why African Women Are Dying of Cervical Cancer
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