By Comino Tamura – December 2016 So much to write about after an exhilarating and thought-provoking week meeting people from … More
Category: Project Spotlight
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Visiting the Thai-Burma border (3)
Visiting KnSDC, posted by Angie Alexander, Funding Director – The centre On 4 October we went to the Karenni Social Development … More
Visiting the Thai-Burma border (2)
With KWO, posted by Angie Alexander, Funding Director On 3 October we visited the baby kits project in the camp … More
Building the Future: Fighting the rise of drug addiction in Myanmar
This week’s edition of The Economist documents the rapidly worsening problem of drugs in Myanmar (Burma) and Laos. Drug … More
The Tohoku Project: An Agricultural Revival
This past week we visited both an existing and a future RIJ project in Minami Sanriku, a town in the … More
Protracted refugee crises: Providing support to the interminably displaced
The Economist ran a fantastic article last month called “Flight to Nowhere,” detailing several developing challenges in modern refugee crises worldwide. … More
Message from Jane Best on the Horn of Africa
In the last few months refugee populations in the Horn of Africa have grown as a result of famine and … More
Spirit of Unity Distillers’ visit to Utatsu
On October 29, 2011, representatives from distilleries that participated in the Spirit of Unity Project traveled with Jane Best, CEO … More
Education program on Thai/Burma border affected by floods
In the last few months, Thailand has faced heavy monsoon rains. The on and off flooding in different parts of … More
Tohoku: Utatsu Initiative
Utatsu cho is a part of Minami Sanriku cho. The whole area was greatly affected by the earthquake and tsunami – out of a … More
