http://www.shineglobal.org Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:08:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shine Global is very happy to announce that we are re-teaming with the directors of War/Dance, Sean and Andrea Fine, in our upcoming project INOCENTE.  We will also be working with Emanuel Michael of Unison Films and Yael Melemede of Salty Features. In San Diego, a young teenage girl’s eyes ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/shine-global-is-re-teaming-with-sean-and-andrea-fine-on-our-new-project-inocente/ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 31 August 2010 – Christine, 14, lives in a camp for displaced people near the international airport here in the Haitian capital. “The only thing I know is that I know nothing,” says this energetic girl, who cites Socrates as her motivation for going to ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/christine%e2%80%99s-story-escaping-poverty-through-education-in-post-earthquake-haiti/ “People see clowns and perceive that they are happy, but after the makeup comes off, it is revealed that clowns are people and they have lives and struggles, too” says Julie Florio of her short documentary Patchwork. Florio, along with Kim Plummer and Tevita Toutaiolepo, were recently awarded the ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/julie-florio-shine-intern-and-award-winning-filmmaker/ “We envision a country that treats all people within its borders with the same standards of respect and social justice. We work to see that all people living in Uganda, as specified under national and international law, are treated with the fairness and consideration due fellow human beings.” – The ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/refugee-law-project-helping-uganda/ Don't miss out on the opportunity for you and a guest to attend the 31st Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards in New York City at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center. Visit CharityFolks.com to bid on this ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/attend-the-emmy-awards-with-us/ Siem Reap, Cambodia (CNN) — Maneuvering slowly through grassy Cambodian terrain, a caravan of 20 men and women is on a search-and-rescue mission. Dressed in military fatigues, they are guided by a fearless leader who calculates every step and ensures the safest path for his comrades. It takes just minutes ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/a-former-cambodian-child-soldier-now-making-life-safer-for-others/ [caption id="attachment_1160" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="This 10-year-old boy was abducted by the LRA in northern DRC"][/caption] HRW August 11, 2010 (Washington, DC) - The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted more than 697 adults and children in a largely unreported campaign in the Central African Republic and the neighboring Bas Uele district ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/lra-conducts-massive-abduction-campaign/ By James C. Mckinley Jr. Published: July 27, 2010 SAN CARLOS, Ariz. — He cuts a tiny figure in the vastness of the upland desert, the expanse of scrub and brush and saguaro cactuses and red ragged mountains. He is a red-headed boy with a sunburned nose and sunglasses, and he moves ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/founding-a-charity-at-6-and-walking-across-the-country-for-it-at-12/ BY JORDAN LEVIN jlevin@MiamiHerald.com On his latest album, Seu Jorge and Almaz, 40-year-old Brazilian singer Seu Jorge dares to cover Michael Jackson's Rock With You, and turns the King of Pop's sunny disco celebration into a sultry, enigmatic statement so much his own that it's almost unrecognizable. "When we decided to make this ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/seu-jorge-brings-universal-change-to-brazil-from-homeless-in-a-favela-to-international-music-star/ El Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA- The Farmworkers Support Committee) is a migrant farmworker organization that is governed by and comprised of farmworkers who are actively engaged in the struggle for better working and living conditions in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Delmarva Peninsula founded in 1979. CATA ... http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/cata-and-farmworkers-rights/