Vaden will be speaking on topics covered in the book and Trevor Howard will be performing. After the show, Vaden will be signing books.
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“ONE” Makes the “Movers and Shakers” list on Amazon.ca
Published by December 14th, 2007 in Front Page and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsClick the thumbnail to see more:
On the Indonesian island of Java, the tropical morning is already hot as ten-year-old Anis climbs down from a bicycle-driven rickshaw on the busy street. She joins her friends as they enter school to begin grade five. Anis’s mother had to quit school when she was ten, to help support her family by selling homemade […]
Ugandans are all too acquainted with the concept of corruption. The Lord’s Resistance Army, under the leadership of Joseph Kony, has terrorized the people of that country under the umbrella of Christianity for years. Perverting the teachings of the Bible and the Ten Commandments, Kony has abducted an estimated 25,000 children. With a trail of […]
...continue readingGrowing up in a village in Angola, Fatima had to spend up to four hours every day collecting water from the river. It was a dangerous trek. One year, seven of Fatima’s friends were attacked by crocodiles.
But the girls carried a much bigger danger back with them to the village. The water was polluted and […]
One life…one dollar!
Not a bad deal.
If you were told that you could save a child’s life for a dollar, you would do it in a heartbeat. The senseless reality is that millions of children in developing nations are dying because they cannot afford, or cannot access, an immunization that only costs one dollar.
When hundreds of […]
I believe that statelessness is one of the biggest atrocities facing the third world today!
Where are you from? What nationality are you? These are pretty common questions. Imagine not being able to give a straight answer. Imagine a life where no country will claim you as its own. This is a situation called Statelessness.
“No […]
It is ironic that I am blogging the sample of Chapter 6 (War) while in Burma… The country with the highest concentration of child soldiers on earth! Meeting these kids is very impacting. The one picture is from Chapter 6 and is indeed a Burmese Child Soldier. The other picture is a […]
...continue readingHere is a sample of Chapter 5 of ONE: A Face Behind the Numbers.
The sight was shocking. Peering into the medical ward of Queen Elizabeth Hospital was like peering into a corner of hell. AIDS has overtaken the hospital. Seventy percent of the medical-ward admissions are AIDS-related, but the hospital lacks the proper medications […]
A sample from chapter 4 - Orphans.
Enkhbold, now 10, lived on the streets for more than three years. Enkhbold’s mother left when the children were young. His father was imprisoned for theft. Enkhbold, aged 6, and his sister, aged 13, ended up running away. He was wandering alone on the city streets, cold and bored, […]
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