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The Tree of Life -- Not Just a Movie

Heather Paul | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Terrence Malick, Poverty, Entertainment, Sean Penn, Children, Heather Paul, SOS Children's Villages, Orphans, Brad Pitt, Orphaned Children, Movies, Tree of Life, Family, Impact News

There are as many different kinds of families as there are classrooms of life.

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What If There Were a Springtime for Children?

Heather Paul | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Education, Human Rights, Children, Heather Paul, SOS Children's Villages, Orphans, Non-Profits, Children's Rights, Family, Impact News

What if children of all ages rose up and marched in unison to their government capitals, demanding their rights -- human rights to a home, a family, education and a childhood?

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Looking Back and Giving Back

Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SOS Kinderdorf, SOS Children's Villages, Children, Orphan, Africa, Orphans, Ghana, Orphaned Children, Impact News

I have written a check to my high school alma mater for the repair of its watch tower. But those are small gestures of giving back to what made me who I am.

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Who are the "Lucky" Orphans?

Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, SOS Children's Villages, Haiti Earthquake, Children, Orphans, Haiti Orphans, Haiti, Impact News

How could the Haitian children shout and talk excitedly after they'd lost everything? They remained at SOS Children's Village because no family member had claimed them. How cruel and unfair that they had been dealt such a blow.

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Inside a Cab: the Goodness of Small Moments

Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SOS Children's Villages, Haiti Earthquake, Heather Paul, Tema, Lagos, Nigeria, Ghana, British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, Impact News

In the wake of a tragedy like the BP oil spill, we sometimes need to cling to small acts of kindness, small moments of hope that people are fundamentally good and that everything will "somehow work out."

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Queen Noor at Soliya on Obama, Islam and Interpersonal Global Communications

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United World Colleges, Social Justice, Charity, Leap of Faith - Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, King Hussein Foundation, Arab Royalty, Obama, 11-9 - From Hate to Hope, Tolerance, SoHo House, Peace, Global Zero, Yahoo, Queen Noor, Pluralism, Microfinance, Middle East, Princeton University, Orphans, Cross-Cultural Understanding, Noor Al Hussein Foundation, Interpersonal Communications, Soliya, Learning, United Nations Alliance of Civilization, Jordan, Bill Clinton, Conservation, Islam, SOS Children's Villages, Equity, Latin America, Hussein of Jordan, Interactive Media, King Hussein of Jordan, Liberation, Washington DC, Sustainable Development, Skype, Colombia, Facebook, New York City, Education, Human Rights, Prophet Mohammed, Health, Consensus, Poverty Eradication, Anti-Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Campaign, Daniel Pearl Foundation, Widows, Women?S Empowerment, World News

No one personifies the concept of thought leader and global citizen more than the Washington, D.C.-born, U.S.-raised, Princeton-educated regal woman w...

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Children, Soccer and a Level Playing Field

Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, SOS Children's Villages, Soccer, 2010 FIFA World Cup, Sports News

The 2010 World Cup is in full swing, and as CEO of SOS Children's Villages-USA, I've been thinking a lot about what soccer means in the lives of children around the world.

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Haiti's Squalor, Haiti's Hope

Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake Relief, Port-Au-Prince, SOS Children's Villages, Haiti Earthquake, Heather Paul, Haiti, Santo, Impact News

Words can hardly do justice to the conditions for the Haitians of Port- au-Prince. Yet, my visit to the SOS Children's Village in Santo filled me with awe and pride because of the wonderful things I saw happening in and around the village.

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Haiti's Canvas

Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, SOS Children's Villages, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Folk Art, Heather Paul, Haiti, Orphans, Impact News

Before the earthquake, the SOS Children's Village in Santo, Haiti cared for 200 children who were without parental care. That number has since swelled to over 500.

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Is PERMANENT a Useful Word in Haiti?

Heather Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SOS Children's Villages, Sos, Global Village Shelters, Ngo, Heather Paul, Haiti, Non-Profit, Orphans, Impact News

Temporary food supplies, emergency shelters, transient family situations, and short-term fixes have been a reality in Haiti since the earthquake. For children, "temporary" has become a devastating perpetual condition.

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Did U.S. Baptists Cross the Line Between "Good Intentions" and Child Kidnapping In Haiti?

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SOS Children's Villages, New-Life-Childrens-Refuge, Drew Ham, Central-Valley-Baptist-Church, Haiti Earthquake, Child Trafficking, Laura Sisby, Cnn, Southern Baptist Convention, Jean-Max Bellerive, Georg Willeit, Pat Robertson, East Side Baptist Church, Karl-Penhaul, World News

Baptist missionaries loaded 33 Haitian children without proper documentation into a bus, even as some of them were crying out for their mothers, insisting they weren't orphans and begging to be allowed to return home.

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The Healing Power of Compassion: Actress Finds Remedy For Stress With Her "Big Give"

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress, Acting, Giving, The Giving Life, Philanthropy, Generosity, SOS Children's Villages, Chirldren, Charity, Relationships, Altruism, Oprah, All My Children, Happiness, Video, Healthy Living News

"It is better to give than to receive" is a phrase that has become so commonplace, it's easy to take the meaning lightly. Many of us have felt that wo...

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