Drawn to Coffee – Monserrate, Colombia

I can’t count how many times I’ve been walking through a coffee farm, and said to my hosts, “You realize you live in an exceptionally beautiful place, right?” A while back, I was thinking about how the coffee trade often depicts these beautiful coffee communities in ads, but we rarely let the growers show us […]
A Student Helping Students in Uganda

Maile Dorland, a 6th grade student at Pioneer Montessori School in Ketchum, ID, is helping kids half way around the globe. Ask her what she thinks about this, and she’ll reply a little surprised herself. As part of a school community service project, each student at the school is required to do something to help […]
A Processing Manual in Pictograms

During my recent visit to Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Union (BJCU), located in Kasese District, Western Region of Uganda, I had the opportunity to visit Karughabira, one of BJCU’s 39 micro Washing Stations. After driving for an hour and hiking for an additional hour on a narrow, steep path, we arrived at the washing station and […]