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I just finished a fabulously written, though gut-wrenching, memoir whose subtitle reads: Fighting for a world where girls are not for sale. Rachel Lloyd is the founder and Executive Director of GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, based in New York. I have crossed paths with her before, at the National Runaway and Homeless Youth Training Conference, but missed hearing her speak. So, I was thrilled to hear her at The Justice Conference last month, again in Portland. In her book she weaves her own story as a sexually exploited child with the stories of the girls she has known and loved,...

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Ethical Photography Considerations for Humanitarian/Missions Photography Selma is a loving Christian Turkish woman ministering to the underserved disabled population of Turkey. She works with a team of women to provide in home care to a multitude of families struggling to keep their disabled children out of institutions. Several times a year, professionals from the West come to offer trainings and to support their work. They often travel to the rough areas and sparse homes in which the families live in poverty. These volunteers are Christians, often sent by financial...

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When I was young, I used to think HIV/AIDS was a blood transfusion problem and I feared doctors and needles. When I was older, I thought HIV/AIDS was a gay-man problem and I felt safe and not very sympathetic. Later, I thought HIV/AIDS was an African problem and I felt compassion and anger at injustice. But I've never knowingly known someone with HIV/AIDS. I've only known and feared and made assumptions about the "problem" and whose fault it was. Until now. A Face to Reframe is working on a partnership with the Northern Colorado AIDS Project to facilitate two projects with the folks...

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