Posted in From the Field, Organizations on Sep 30th, 2011
Editor’s Note: Remember when the Stirring the Fire team was in Liberia documenting Foundation for Women‘s “All Liberian Women’s Summit“? Phil Borges, STF founder, recaps the project for us and has the film they created with the young women leaders to share! This past August I traveled to Liberia to document a women’s leadership summit. Foundation [...]
Posted in From the Field, Organizations on Aug 9th, 2011
Phil is in Liberia documenting the work of Foundation for Women (FFW), an organization that strives to continually support and encourage impoverished women, both globally and locally, by funding and creating microcredit programs. A longtime supporter of Phil and his work, Kevin Castner is traveling with him and reporting back to us from the field. [...]
Posted in From the Field, Organizations on Aug 6th, 2011
Phil is in Liberia documenting the work of Foundation for Women (FFW), an organization that strives to continually support and encourage impoverished women, both globally and locally, by funding and creating microcredit programs. A longtime supporter of Phil and his work, Kevin Castner is traveling with him and reporting back to us from the field. [...]
Posted in From the Field, Organizations on Jul 29th, 2011
Phil is in Liberia documenting the work of Foundation for Women (FFW), an organization that strives to continually support and encourage impoverished women, both globally and locally, by funding and creating microcredit programs. A longtime supporter of Phil and his work, Kevin Castner is traveling with him and reporting back to us from the field. [...]
Posted in From the Field, Organizations on Jul 25th, 2011
Phil has already embarked on another trip! He is documenting the work of Foundation for Women (FFW) in Liberia, as well as, a women’s leadership summit that they are hosting. FFW is an organization that strives to continually support and encourage impoverished women, both globally and locally, by funding and creating microcredit programs. A longtime [...]
Posted in Organizations on Jul 12th, 2011
Stirring the Fire founder Phil Borges about his recent trip to Cambodia to document the work of CASC and Youth Star. I recently returned from Cambodia where I documented two organizations that the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women is supporting in its effort to end violence against women. Although the issues we covered were extremely [...]
Posted in Announcements on May 25th, 2011
Stirring the Fire is a co-sponsor of the Foundation for Sustainable Development’s Global Photography Competition! How do you see grassroots development? How can you reveal the individuals on the frontlines who are driving grassroots action for global peace, freedom, and sustainability? How can you show the resilient and inspirational communities that affect development efforts worldwide? [...]
Posted in Organizations on Sep 22nd, 2010
In rural Ethiopia, a young girl marries early; often by the time she is ten years old. Her pelvis is not large enough to give birth, yet she often becomes pregnant before having her first period. When her baby cannot push through her tiny birth canal, a resulting fistula can develop, where a hole is [...]
