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The latest campaign to raise awareness about global hunger from the World Food Program announces that the global population is setting a new record:
For the first time in the history of mankind there will be more than one billion people facing chronic starvation at any given moment.
Yay us.

Becoming a part of the solution, though, [...]

This years winners of the 2010 Hunger Bites! World Food Program video contest are heading to Guatemala to raise awareness about the country’s underfed population. A recent drought has exacerbated the Guatemalan hunger crisis…
Two aspiring filmmakers from Mexico, the grand prize winners of an annual video competition held by the United Nations World Food Programme [...]

In the recesses of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Northwestern Mexico lies the Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon), a natural wonder considered to be yet more spectacular and raw than the Grand Canyon. It is in the gorges, twists and bends of the Barranca del Cobre that the Tarahumara keep their ancient customs and rituals [...]

Exciting news! The man featured in the documentary “Being the Diablo” has invited me to collaborate on another documentary film – this time, one that features the Copper Canyon Ultramarathon. I’ve been itching to get more involved in documentary and film making for too long now. Finally… I am!
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Helped film two most interesting interviews today. [...]

They observe the ceremonies.
They protect the forest.
They run.
“At the heart of who they are is running,” Will Harlan.
“Where we see giving as something extra or something that you should get praise for, to the Rarámuri, giving is just so ingrained in who they are that it’s not something that you have to go out of [...]

Bob came by for lunch. He has treated me several times so this time I cooked him a veggie stir-fry with my infamous salad. Of course, I’ve learned yet more about Bob and his most interesting life pursuits. Looking forward to kicking it with him this weekend before I go.
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Had an invigorating swim and sauna [...]

It’s been all about delving deep into the rabbit hole today. I’ve been investigating a visit to the Chihuahua region of Mexico. I knew next to nothing about Mexico’s largest state/department before this morning. Now, I am pretty darn stoked about the region’s highlights:

1. Home to Mexico’s two largest waterfalls – one of which is [...]

I stumbled upon the website of a most inspiring and spirited mom through her post about child slavery used on cacao farms. I am keeping a blog about all things chocolate as part of a bigger project I’m currently working on developing. Below is a portion of what I posted at The Cocoa Project.

Convinced that [...]

A new film about roving reporter Nicholas Kristof will be released soon. Looks exciting. This man does exactly what I aspire to do… and have already begun doing on a smaller-scale.
View the trailer: The Reporter
Learn more about Kristof by clicking here.
Visit his NYTimes blog by clicking here.

Low-income women are targets for an alarming rate of violence in Guatemala. The Interior Ministry of Guatemala reports that more than 700 women were murdered in Guatemala last year.
Below the news brief published by the Latin American Herald Tribune:
GUATEMALA CITY – Some 708 women were killed in Guatemala in 2009, based on Interior Ministry figures [...]