epub |eng | 2018-03-01 | Author:Helen Wilkes

IDEA: Happiness is an elusive creature that tends to vanish the moment we shine the light of consciousness upon it. If, as brain research increasingly confirms, the mere absence of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melissa Haynes

15 Tree Planting “Have you ever been tree planting before?” the Drill Sergeant asks. “No but I’m willing to give it a shot.” Sounds like a relatively clean job. It ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-02 | Author:Elisabeth Reichert

Focus on Upper-Class Women Misses the Larger Human Rights Issue “To hear the media tell the tale, the central problem facing working women today is the question of whether they ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-11 | Author:Nicole Boles

7 USE YOUR Time “God and angels don’t get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.” —Cherishe Archer “I don’t have time.” ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:Kent Annan [Annan, Kent]

practice four * * * PARTNERING With Not For I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. PHILIPPIANS 1:4-5 NIV ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:Susan Skog [Skog, Susan]

From Water Fetchers to Full-Time Students In communities with the benefit of reliable, safe water, life was so much easier. The contrast was startling. People had time for activities that ...

epub |eng, eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Aaron Barlow

After graduation from New York University, Eric Stone taught ESL/ESOL in China, Brazil and throughout New York City. He then joined the Peace Corps, launching and managing an HIV/AIDS, malaria ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Gail Gutradt [Gutradt, Gail]

22 “We Did Not Know You” Some of the most important things that happen for me at Wat Opot come from stillness. When I am not busy doing, I have ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn [Kristof, Nicholas D.]

Mullaney intrigued us because he seemed so successful at the art of emotionally connecting Americans to distant suffering—a challenge that frustrated and eluded us. During the genocide in Darfur, Nick ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Sharon Hapton [Hapton, Sharon]

Everyone knows that when you’re sick the secret to bringing you back to health is chicken soup. And the better the soup, the sooner you’ll be up and running around! ...

mobi |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Alison Thompson

CHAPTER 9 By May, life in Peraliya was beginning to feel like something out of Lord of the Flies. We had to watch our backs, as some villagers had nothing ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-19 | Author:Pam Grout

* * * ANOTHER THOUGHTFUL, COMMITTED CITIZEN: IAN MCKILLOP After reading an article about international volunteering in Canada’s Globe and Mail, Ian McKillop, a risk analyst from Halifax, Nova Scotia, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-08 | Author:Shirley Sagawa

I don’t dream anymore about coming home from school to find my house condemned, with a huge wrecking ball quivering to turn it into scraps. It’s true that I’m a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Danielle Steel

FIVE The Clients: Who Are They? Although it’s not unusual for me to forget the name or face of someone I meet at a dinner party, I rarely forgot a ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Alison Thompson [Thompson, Alison]

CHAPTER 9 By May, life in Peraliya was beginning to feel like something out of Lord of the Flies. We had to watch our backs, as some villagers had nothing ...