Archive for October, 2009

Uganda Nice Stache

{Jeff Steinberg}
Mustaches and generosity. There can be a connection.
It’s not any more far fetched than using one’s feet to play a guitar.
Convincing people to support a cause doesn’t always have to involve a guilt-laced stab at the heart. It doesn’t always need weighty retellings of tragic, random circumstances and despondent imagery of poverty and violence. [...]

The Art of Improvisation

Meet John.  John is Blake’s roommate, the Country Coordinator for Restore International, and a POH board member.  Here, John is proudly displaying his newly attained Ugandan Driver’s License.  Way to go John.  That same day, he swiped a gate tearing off the tire well molding.  As it turned out, it was nothing a little scotch tape couldn’t fix.  Way to go tape.

 
 
 
 
 

Hyde Park Jazz Fest 2009

It could have gone a lot of different ways.
It’s a safe guess that people attending an outdoor jazz festival would certainly be sympathetic to helping women start their lives anew after great mistreatment, but how willing would they be to actually help? Would people really be inclined to spend money in support of women they [...]

Florence

Searching for the right tailors proved to be more challenging than expected.  We spent an entire day popping in and out of the shops that made up the marketplace labyrinth.  Row after row, kids played and women chatted over the tickering hum of their dilapidated machines.  I appointed myself the official headhunter and quality control [...]

A Powerful Observation

This is the library in my daughter’s elementary school.

This sign hangs outside one of her classrooms.

This is Robinah’s classroom across from the Brothel.