A Mother’s Day gift from Seattle to Kenya
Motivated by her own complicated pregnancy, Heidi Breeze-Harris founded One by One, a Seattle-based organization working to wipe out obstetric fistula in Africa.
Tagged: Kenya
03 Apr
Seattle, you have had your share!
A former slum-resident from Kenya thinks his hometown can teach Seattle a thing or two about consumption and green-living.
11 Mar
Slum Rising: Life in Kenya slum sheds light on growing global reality
Slum Rising is our new three-part series exploring the economically complex and culturally rich life in the world’s urban slums.
13 Feb
Slum Rising explores innovations in tomorrow’s megacities
One sixth of the world’s population lives in slums, but there’s a lot more going on there than poverty. You can support Slum Rising, a new series by The Seattle Globalist uncovering what’s really going on in the world’s slums, today on Kickstarter.
17 Dec
Kenya offers cautionary tale on abortion
Although the November elections yielded women-friendly returns, the War on Women continues, both in the US and around the world. In the last week alone the Michigan Congress pass a bill limiting abortions and Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his goal to eventually make “abortion, at any stage, a thing of the past.” In the [...]
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