Happy 4th Birthday to charity:water and Some Words of Encouragement

Today, our friends at charity:water turned 4 years old. Every year to celebrate their anniversary, charity:water drills a clean water well and broadcasts it live to the world. This year, things are not going quite as planned: So, the bad news is that the drill today did not work. As charity:water founder Scott Harrison says [...]

Meet the New OBS Event Recap

On August 16, 2010 we met with our community here in Memphis TN to discuss genocide, the World Water Crisis, modern slavery, and how we can help. Over 50 people turned out to hear what we had to say and to see how we can all get involved together! After three brief presentations on our [...]

Sudanese Regime Committing Genocide At Kalma Camp in Darfur

There is a common misunderstanding in our world that genocide means using guns to kill a targeted group. However, from a legal standpoint, genocide is much more than that. The U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide: any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in [...]

Central African Republic: U.N. Outlines Options to Combat Security Threats

From the UN News Centre: The United Nations has proposed strengthening the capacities of the Central African Republic (CAR) to enable it to effectively tackle security and humanitarian challenges when the world body’s peacekeepers withdraw from the country at the end of this year. The UN Mission in the CAR and Chad (MINURCAT) was set [...]

FP: The Fastest to Die

You Can Help the People of Central African Republic by donating to our charity:water campaign here. From Foreign Policy: A study reveals how deeply the wounds of conflict have cut the Central African Republic — and not where you would expect. On July 30, the president of the Central African Republic, an eccentric army chief [...]

Human Toll of Violence in Central African Republic Documented

You can help people in the Central African Republic by donating here. From Science Daily: Using a combination of scientific methodology and old-fashioned legwork, human rights researchers based at the University of California, Berkeley, have systematically canvassed nearly 2,000 households in the Central African Republic, carefully documenting the devastating human impact of violence in the [...]

Charity:water Launches September Campaign 2010

Donate to our charity:water campaign here!

Modern Slavery Follow Up Meeting

On August 2, we will be at First Evangelical Church for the follow-up meeting from the July 19th DEMAND Screening Event. There will be a brief recap on the current issue of modern slavery and human trafficking, and then we will introduce our guests to the new department being added into Operation Broken Silence. Afterwords, [...]

TAKE ACTION: Combatting the World Water Crisis

Water can change everything when it comes to rebuilding communities and providing clean drinking water. We’ll let charity:water explain that part from the community standpoint: 1. The walk for water that used to take everyone here three hours, now takes 15 minutes. And the water is safe to drink. 2. A hygiene worker teaches your village [...]