Aug 2, 2010 As I opened my Facebook to check messages from GWLN's Global Leaders for Justice organizers who I’ll be working with tomorrow and Thursday at SCU mentoring inspiring projects from all over the world, I scanned the 'birthdays' sidebar. Keeping with the global theme, I was alerted to change agent Dylan Mahalingam’s 15th birthday today…I KNEW I had to give a huge … [Read more...]
Happy 15th B-day: TEDxTeen & CEO of Lil’ MDGs Dylan Mahalingam!
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Saved By The Well and Dream Village: Perfect For World Water Day
Mar. 22, 2010 Awhile back I wrote about the ‘virtual walk’ for World Water Day to raise awareness of those in water-stressed regions who often walk six miles or more to bring water to their villages. When kids brush their teeth with gushing faucets on, or we wash our pets, cars, hair and dishes with ease, it’s hard to remember that over a billion people don’t have access to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Africa, Amy-Jussel, Best Buy@15 Challenge, books, clean water, CSR, Demo09, Dream Village, DreamVillage, Dylan Mahalingam, fresh water, Global Giving, Global Water, Ideablob, inspiration, Karito Kids, Kids, LilMDGs, literacy, make a difference, March 22, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, NEA, Play Pumps International, potable water, Poverty, resources, Robot Galaxy, sanitation, Saved by the Well, social enterprise, Social entrepreneurs, Suneet Bhatt, united nations, water, waterborne disease, World Water Day, worldchangers