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While the specific environmental concerns change based on geography, one of the issues of broadest concern across our global network is the lack of access to safe drinking water. Today 1.1 billion people live without access to safe drinking water. Eighty percent of illnesses and deaths in the developing world are attributable to water-borne diseases.… Continue reading Solving the Water Crisis in the Philippines

The Goldin Institute is honored to work with a wide range of community leaders and partners from a broad range of civil society experts to promote reconciliation and peace building around the world. Of particular concern is the use of child soldiers in conflicts throughout our network. In places like Colombia, Uganda and the Philippines,… Continue reading Child Soldier Reintegration in Uganda

The Goldin Institute believes in the power of communities coming together to build their own solutions and determine their own futures. Key to our achieving our mission is ensuring that voices and perspectives that are often excluded from the discussion—often women—are heard and included. From combatting gender-based violence in Haiti to improving microcredit in Bangladesh,… Continue reading Ending Gender-Based Violence in Haiti

In the discussions about disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of children used as soldiers in the conflict in Northern Uganda, the voices and perspectives of former child soldiers themselves have too often and too long been ignored. To restore these voices to the discussion and to improve the services for former combatants, the Goldin Institute and… Continue reading Alone and Frightened: A Summary of our Report

Over the past few months we’ve seen a healthy mix of strategic and organic progress at the Goldin Institute as new ideas are emerging into extraordinary initiatives and projects we’ve participated in for years are expanding into greater opportunities for community transformation. In this edition of the newsletter, you can read about the solidarity that… Continue reading November 2015 Newsletter

Our Leadership Team Makes New Alliances and Reaffirms Existing Ones in our Work to End the Use of Child Soldiers in East Africa This Fall provided ideal timing for our co-founders to shore-up important project work in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. In late September, Travis and Diane journeyed to East Africa for several important regional… Continue reading East Africa Update

Goldin Institute Associate Srishtee Dear on her Recent Trip to Colombia to Attend the Foundation for Reconcilation Conference Ten thousand feet in the sky, rocking back and forth in a cable car to our accent, we reached Monserrat, a tourist destination and holy site for Christians. Houses speckled the mass of incredible and incredibly populated… Continue reading A View From Afar: My Trip to Colombia

Perhaps we like this story so much about one woman making a difference by bringing fresh water to her extended community, because it reminds us of our own global associate working in similar ways for her own people. Both Darlene Adviso and Dr. Susana Anayatin share the common goal of ensuring that those in their… Continue reading The Water Ladies of Navajo and Mindanao

This week we mark the anniversary of one of the Institute’s defining events: the 2003 Building Social Cohesion in the Midst of Diversity and Migration conference held in Manresa, Spain.   At that Event, community leaders from over 20 cities gathered to explore best practices from their practical experiences building social cohesion. The Conference came… Continue reading This Week in GI History and Building on a Key Past Event

The director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University’s McKinney School of Law, makes a sharp criticism of both the U.S. and U.N policy in Haiti. In this recent piece at the Nation, attorney Fran Quigley also reminds us that the future of human rights is threatened by the U.N.’s “craven abdication… Continue reading Cholera Epidemic in Haiti is Clearly a Human Rights Issue