Stories
GoodCity: Multiplying kindness
“I don’t want to throw this stuff out. I want it to go to someone who needs it. If...
Battling Covid-19 together
COVID: SAME STORM, DIFFERENT BOATS “This pandemic has magnified every existing inequality in our society,” Melinda Gates said of...
Helping the Covid battle in Sri Lanka
For homeless children in Kandy, Sri Lanka’s second largest city, life is one serious risk after another. “Many live...
No Man’s Land: Do refugees face a ‘never-ending story’?
When our world was summoning its resources to battle Covid-19, it was easy to lose sight of people displaced...
FROM OREGON TO IRAQ: Support for refugees
SHIPMENT FEEDBACK “ISIS came,” tells, Basema, aged approx 11. “We went to one farm, then another, and then to the mountains. We left...
FROM THE NETHERLANDS TO ROMANIA: Medical care for Holocaust survivors
Her face has been protected, but, pictured below, is a 94-year-old Holocaust resident at a Romanian hospice, in the...
ACROSS THE ASIA-PACIFIC: Walking in someone else’s shoes
At Crossroads, we love the old saying that we should walk a mile ‘in the shoes’ of people in need. In much...
Kazakhstan: Fair trade insights for teachers
Can students be taught the global inequalities of trade? Can they learn to understand how rural or urban producers often receive far less than their fair...
Tanzania: Education and job training
SHIPMENT FEEDBACK Youth unemployment is a serious problem in the Northern region of Tanzania where much of the population...
