Jo’s Blog

If you read this blog, if you receive our calendar, if you ever look at our website – you know Ken Carl. You may not realize it, but you do. He created our poster child in this now-iconic image: He is responsible for many of our calendars [...]

I spent the last three weeks living out of bags. I took this photo on the 2nd day of my trip because it amused me and because I was traveling very light that particular day and feeling just a bit smug. But by the end of the trip, when I had [...]

When Moy Moy was small, Shaila Faleiro – the first trained special educator we ever hired – used to come by our house on the odd Saturday morning to ask if she could “borrow Moy.” Borrowing Moy meant a few hours of fun [...]

I’m not a sporty person. I prefer watching the out doors from an inside window. I was a bookworm as a child and going to the library was my favorite activity. I like swimming because you can lie down to do it and you don’t work up a [...]

So how poor is poor? And what factors go into deciding who is and who isn’t? The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative – a UK based think tank dedicated to reducing poverty – recently published a study on the [...]