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Cartel-backed pot grows linked to human trafficking, inhumane working conditions
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Cartel-backed pot grows linked to human trafficking, inhumane working conditions

Editor’s note: I just returned from northern California (6/2023), speaking with experts with ties into the situation with legal growers. Human trafficking is happening in legal and illegal cannabis farms.  TRINITY COUNTY, Calif. — If you buy weed illegally, you unwittingly could be supporting Mexican cartels and other criminal syndicates that lure workers to farms…

Rotary clubs honor the late Rick Bricker with 'Service Above Self' award – Brainerd Dispatch
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Rotary clubs honor the late Rick Bricker with 'Service Above Self' award – Brainerd Dispatch

BRAINERD — The Brainerd Noon Rotary Club, in partnership with the Central Lakes Rotary Club, recently announced the annual 2022 Lakes Area “Service Above Self” award went to Rick Bricker. “Rick stood out for his extraordinary breadth and depth of service leadership over three decades,” the Rotary clubs announced in a news release. “Given his…

Exploiting Prison Workers for Cheap Sheets
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Exploiting Prison Workers for Cheap Sheets

It took Johnny Perez over four years of making hundreds of bedsheets every day at a factory to reach the top pay tier: about 32 cents an hour, nearly double his starting wage. He was one of the highest-paid workers at Coxsackie Correctional Facility—a textile manufacturer run by the New York State prison system. When…

Why one woman plants crops to fight oppression
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Why one woman plants crops to fight oppression

Eva Dickerson has spent her life thinking about food. Not just about what to eat, but more specifically what it means to have access to food, to groceries and space to grow crops. “Food access might ask why there isn’t a grocery store in someone’s neighborhood,” Dickerson, 26, said, “but food apartheid might ask who…

Maryland Attorney General-elect Anthony Brown's goals and priorities in his own words
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Maryland Attorney General-elect Anthony Brown's goals and priorities in his own words

When Anthony Brown leaves Congress to be sworn in Tuesday as Maryland’s next attorney general, he will make history. Brown, also a former Maryland lieutenant governor, will be the first Black attorney general in state history, joining a historic group of firsts across state government as Democrats look to accomplish a vast political agenda with…

Need for more child-friendly spaces in India's response efforts – Express Healthcare
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Need for more child-friendly spaces in India's response efforts – Express Healthcare

Prarthana Sen, member of the Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies (IAAPS) and former researcher at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) explains that child-friendly spaces reflect cultural sensitivity as they are built in adherence to the local norms and values of a concerned place. Its staff is also selected from amongst those affected, and…

Adventist Review: A Better World Canada is helping young people to help other students in need.
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Adventist Review: A Better World Canada is helping young people to help other students in need.

You’re never too young to give back. A Better World Canada (ABW), a lay-led Adventist supporting ministry, is witnessing firsthand the dedication that young people in Canada have toward helping others their own age. Among those who have contributed significantly are from École Lacombe Upper Elementary School in Lacombe, Alberta, and Ponoka Secondary Campus in…

Red Deer News Now: Local non-profit A Better World heads to Africa this week for first team humanitarian trip in three years
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Red Deer News Now: Local non-profit A Better World heads to Africa this week for first team humanitarian trip in three years

The local non-profit organization A Better World (ABW) will be heading to Africa this Thursday for their first team trip in almost three years. Based out of Lacombe, the international development organization has completed various humanitarian projects in over 15 countries over the past 32 years, in education, healthcare, and clean water systems, with the goal of…

Red Deer News Now: Local non-profit A Better World heads to Africa this week for first team humanitarian trip in three years
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Red Deer News Now: Local non-profit A Better World heads to Africa this week for first team humanitarian trip in three years

The local non-profit organization A Better World (ABW) will be heading to Africa this Thursday for their first team trip in almost three years. Based out of Lacombe, the international development organization has completed various humanitarian projects in over 15 countries over the past 32 years, in education, healthcare, and clean water systems, with the goal of breaking the cycle of poverty.

Why We Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children – Radical.net
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Why We Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children – Radical.net

Editor’s note: we are a non-denominational organization. Throughout Scripture, God’s heart for orphans and vulnerable children is clearly proclaimed. God declares himself to be “father of the fatherless” (Psalm 68:5), executing justice on behalf of the vulnerable (Deuteronomy 10:18). Approximately 153 million children worldwide are orphans. Many of these children are vulnerable to forced labor…