Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), is a student led non-profit organization that is rapidly gaining attention with their world-wide program, impacting nearly 1,300 different universities. SIFE makes it possible for university students to make a difference in their communities while developing their business skills. One particular university, the Shri Ram College of Commerce, has excelled [...]
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Students in Free Enterprise: Making a Difference World-Wide
Posted by Casey on August 10th, 2011
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Strategizing Advocacy to Fight Human Trafficking
Posted by Casey on July 11th, 2011
As the worldwide issue of human trafficking trickles into our everyday vocabulary, organizations grapple with how to spread the word. Indeed, now more than ever, major NGO’s and non-profits are asking the question, “how do we bring this to light?” Erin Murphy from Seattle Against Slavery, an organization committed to the advocacy of domestic trafficking, [...]
breakthroughNEWS -April 2011
Posted by Alicia on April 25th, 2011
Happy Easter!! We hope you had a fantastic day hanging out with family and friends. This has been a very exciting month for the Global Breakthrough family, we’ve had teams in India and Ethiopia teaching at several leadership conferences and have seen tremendous growth and opportunities for getting involved open up. The time that our [...]
Empowering Women in Developing Nations
Posted by Megan on March 8th, 2011
In the developing world, women are often the key to a community finding success in health, education and economics. Global Breakthrough is passionate about causes surrounding the rights of women, especially those that deal with the empowerment of women. In Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn’s book, Half the Sky, is the raw, detailed and [...]
Thailand trip – February 2011
Posted by Alicia on February 21st, 2011
Two weeks ago, Global Breakthrough left with a team of local people from the Seattle area for Thailand. They started in the Korat region of the North by teaching at our business seminars (to read more about these seminars click here) and were able to see the desperation that is faced daily by Northern Thais. [...]
Trafficking Close to Home
Posted by Casey on February 14th, 2011
As Global Breakthrough continues to work and research issues of sex slavery abroad, we want to also highlight parallels of the problem occurring here in the United States. The Seattle Times recently posted an article entitled, Teen Prostitutes on the Run”*. Broken into two main parts, the article explores some of the new laws set [...]
Miracle Centers
Posted by Megan on January 29th, 2011
In many regions of North Africa, the facilities in place for children living with disabilities and their families are next to none. In many cases these children are left in dark rooms and forgotten, or treated as something to be ashamed of. Due to this stigma, the government has no systems or funds in place [...]
