It has been six weeks since the northern Nigerian extremist group, Boko Haram, kidnapped nearly 300 school girls in broad daylight. (Boko Haram literally translates to “Western-imposed thinking is forbidden by Islam”). The sheer audacity of the abductions is perhaps...
For 100 days starting in April 1994, a darkness unfolded in Rwanda that permeated the soul of every citizen … a subjugation of human rights severe enough to earn Rwanda a front page in world history. Despite the horror of the Rwandan genocide, the country has...
For the thousands of children around the world, malaria is a very real enemy. Malaria keeps students out of the classroom, cripples health, and in far too many tragic cases, causes death. Every 60 seconds, a child dies of malaria. Although malaria is entirely...
Twenty years ago, the world watched in horror as one of the swiftest civil uprisings of our time left more than 800,000 Rwandans dead. The 1994 Rwandan genocide is now known as one of the largest preventable losses of life in recent history. Today marks the...
Can clean water be incorporated into the vision of a for-profit business? We think so. In fact, through our partnerships with local and nationwide businesses, causelife’s reach has grown exponentially over the past few years, paving the way for water projects to be...