Valli Keller

Hungry For Change

I’m a life-long carb-o-holic. As a child, our house usually had home-baked cakes, cookies or pies hanging around. Homemade ice cream was a summer staple. I have always measured the holidays by what candy was my favorite for that [...]

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CNN Spotlights The Not For Sale Campaign

by Valli Keller

The Not For Sale Campaign uses a variety of tools to end slavery in our lifetime. They have a variety of programs in countries where slavery victims are all too common. However, they have also created technology tools like the Free2Work application for iPhones and Androids to help you know which companies work hard to [...]

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Kangaroo Cuddle

by Valli Keller

What can kangaroos teach us about neonatal care? David and Kate Ogg found out when their baby, Jamie, was born barely clinging to life at 26 weeks and was declared dead shortly after birth. Well, Jamie is very much alive, thanks to some very good instincts on Kate’s part. It’s called the Kangaroo Cuddle and [...]

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Messages From Beyond? 9/11 Families Say They’re Touched by Loved Ones Lost

by Moments Count

by GEOFF MARTZ and LAUREN PUTRINO The first time Lisa O’Brien knew something bizarre was happening was when she found her 4-year-old daughter Jacie having a conversation in an empty room. “I’d say, ‘Jacie, who are you talking to?’ ‘My dad! Talking to daddy,’” O’Brien recalled. “She would tell me she could see him.” Jacie’s father [...]

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CNN Freedom Project: Turning the lens on a hidden modern-day problem

by Valli Keller

For photographer Kay Chernush, a passion for shedding light on human trafficking began with a plane ride across the Atlantic Ocean. “I was going overseas, and sat next to somebody who, it turned out, worked at the TIP (Trafficking in Persons) office at the State Department. We talked all the way across the Atlantic, and [...]

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Sex Trafficking Survivor, Tina Frundt, Works to Help Other Victims

by Valli Keller

From CNN’s Freedom Project: This is part of CNN’s year-long effort to shed a light on, and perhaps help stop, human trafficking. In the video below, 2007 CNN Hero, Tina Frundt works to save victims of child sex trafficking. She herself was a victim at the age of 14. Tina Frundt, 2010 Fredrick Douglass Award [...]

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CNN: The Freedom Project

by Valli Keller

From The CNN Freedom Project: Many Forms of Slavery Exist: Slavery still exists. Of that there isn’t much dispute, if any. But how widespread is what many experts call modern-day slavery? Estimates range from about 10 million to 30 million, according to policymakers, activists, journalists and scholars. This year CNN will join the fight to [...]

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Jeremy Rifkin – RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilization

by Valli Keller

Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases. No matter how much we put our minds to the task of meeting the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world, the human [...]

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REX – Enter walking

by Valli Keller

A few weeks ago we ran an article about an exoskeleton product to help paraplegics stand and walk. Now, through the magic of our Facebook friend community we have found another, even more impressive, exoskeleton from Rex Bionics in New Zealand and launched in July of this year. Enter Rex, appropriately given a human name [...]

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