TAKE ACTION: Combatting Modern Slavery

It doesnt matter how old or young you are, if you are a college student or a professional, penniless or a millionaire, everyone has the chance to be an abolitionist. Modern slavery is an international problem that is multi-faceted, and any social injustice with such a large scope requires equally multi-faceted solutions.  So, what can [...]

TAKE ACTION: Preventing and Ending Genocide

There are a seemingly endless number of things we as individuals can do to help eradicate eliminationism and genocide from  our world. 1. Inform Your Network, Break Your Silence This is a bold step. How do we get others to care about preventing genocide and ending current ones? How do we as individuals combat eliminationism? [...]

Iolani School in Hawaii Raises $1,000 For OBS charity:water Campaign!

April was Genocide Prevention Month. To celebrate, Operation Broken Silence launched a drive to raise $1,000 for charity:water, a small but appropriate action for genocide prevention efforts. Providing clean drinking water to defenseless people living in conflict zones such as the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo plays a vital role in [...]

Video: Another Reason OBS Supports charity:water

Donate to our charity:water campaign here.

Affleck Launches Eastern Congo Initiative

Actor Ben Affleck has launched a new initiative to help fund existing local organizations in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo:

The April Campaign Launches Today!

The month of April is Genocide Prevention Month. This is obviously one of the most important times of year for us as far as advocacy is concerned. However, this year we want to do something that also directly impacts lives in Africa, and we want to do it in honor of the 10 million people [...]

A Charity:Water Story- Rwanda

As Operation Broken Silence continues to raise money for charity:water in 2010 we want to keep the focus on two things: the people we are serving through charity:water in Africa reaching our $4,000 fundraising goal With that said, here is the story by Esther Havens and Taylor Walling about how a clean water well dug [...]

Memphis Businesses, We Need Your Help!

Greetings, Mark here from OBS! The staff had a great idea recently and we wanted to share it with our followers as well as Memphis businesses! The Mission For those who do not know, this year Operation Broken Silence has chosen charity:water as the beneficiary of our fundraising. In short, charity:water’s focus is to help [...]

Results of Operation Clean:Water

On February 20, 2010, First Evangelical Church in Memphis, TN donated their Fellowship Hall to Operation Broken Silence for a few hours. During this time, our staff talked with attendees about how digging wells in African conflict zones can improve the health of communities while simultaneously preventing atrocities against women and children. Results of Event [...]

Why You Should Donate $10 to Our charity:water Campaign

The following video explains in detail how a small $10 donation towards clean water can help change lives, as well as some of the story of the people who have made clean drinking water for over 1 million people a reality: Donate to our campaign by clicking here!

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