Do you ever get overwhelmed by all of the world’s problems? I do. And, sometimes I even get overwhelmed with the projects I need to do around the house–never mind all that noble saving the world stuff. However, I...
A newsletter about Spilled Milk in Kolkata India Kolkata! (Or Calcutta as it used to be written.) One of the serendipities of travel is that places can impact you in ways you would have never guessed. When I first...
Driving east from the city of Amman the flat stony plain of Jordan’s eastern desert extends hundreds of kilometers all the way to the border with Iraq and beyond to Baghdad. It’s the least populated region of Jordan with...
The Quintessence of Life Sometimes my daughter Emma surprises me with the videos that she likes. This week has been the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. Emma happens to have autism spectrum disorder and doesn’t talk so...
A story to warm your heart… on a cold winter’s night Over this last year I’ve written several newsletters about our work in Iraq, so I had it in my heart to write about something different at year end....
Last month we made a special appeal to help Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. Thank you to everyone who gave. Over $8500 was raised for this cause from donors here in Canada. These funds will be used to distribute...
Recently I heard about a large international aid organization that was investigated by the US government for inappropriately using relief aid funds. This is never encouraging news for donors. Most of us care about the world’s problems, whether it...
We are pleased to announce that Millennium now has a representative in Myanmar. We would look forward to being a part of the development process in this part of the world.
A Report from Lebanon Due to the prolonged military action in Syria, thousands of Syrians have become refugees in neighboring countries, including Lebanon. Among those fleeing are large numbers of Palestinians. Most of these Syrian Palestinians are unable to...
Syrian Refugees A report from Jordan Over the last couple of months we’ve heard reports of more and more refugees coming across the border from Syria into Jordan, and latest figures put the number at over a hundred thousand....