The season of crazy!

I love Christmas! I love the smell of the freshly cut tree, the baking, the time with friends and family. But am I alone in thinking the whole giving thing is getting a little crazy?
Simple. Life changing.
This week has been lots of fun with calls back and forth to Fiji organizing our girls’ uniforms for the 2012 school year. Our volunteers have been working hard to get the best local prices on uniform fabric and also for the tailors who will sew them. 
Not having a uniform pretty much guarantees you […]
Why Girls?
My 12 year old son Jonah asked me recently why we work with girls in the Pacific Islands and not boys. I answered by repeating a line which came from the awareness campaign, ‘The Girl Effect’…they said, ‘we did the research into the solutions to overcoming poverty in the developing world and if we had […]