Global Hand stories

Fair Trade with Yunnan, Haiti and Mongolia
Fair Trade Buys Goats Yunnan, South-Western China When is a goat worth more than a goat? An odd question, perhaps, but...

Global Hand helps UN fight Ebola crisis
The statistics on the West African Ebola outbreak have been terrifying: more than 10,000 people dead and thousands more currently infected. The...

Hero of Hope: Haiti Earthquake Victim Becomes Olympic Athlete
He had to be one of the least likely candidates in London’s 2012 Paralympics. In 2010, Haiti’s massive earthquake had...

‘Confidence to face the future’ UN chief
The United Nations’ Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, tells a poignant story of his childhood. “I grew up in a...

Global Hand Match Helps Fight Human Trafficking
When we think of ‘slavery’, we easily picture 18th century shiploads of people in appalling conditions, or Roman captives...

RWANDA: Still battling a deadly legacy
When Rwanda suffered its inimitable ethnic fighting, the result was not simply war. It was genocide. In 100 days,...

UN-business partnership: Empowering women in Sudan
Recent years have seen intolerable suffering for women in the conflict-ridden country of Sudan where they have, systematically, been...

Global Hand Chinese Translation Team Receive Online Volunteering Award
To mark International Volunteers Day on 4th December, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme announced the winners of the...

Sierra Leone: Aftermath of the Blood Bath
When the wounding is done, and you are left alone and bleeding, where can you turn in a war...