For 22 African orphans who received the chance to climb Mount Kilimanjaro the old adage ‘aim high’ is more than just a saying. A few years back Shankles, who works out of his Oceanside garage, formed ...

Federal authorities have arrested Jason Carney, an American who ran a charity to feed African orphans and brokered adoptions in Malawi for U.S. clients. Carney was detained Friday in Arkansas in ...

Boston University researchers have found that orphans in Africa develop similarly to their peers, contradicting older reports that South African orphans perform worse in school and are more likely to ...

Imagine: It’s almost five o’clock in the morning; the sun hasn’t risen over the horizon yet. You get up, crawl out of your potato sack and fetch water from the river. You bathe, dress and have a cup ...

MUNSTER | In the small southern African kingdom of Swaziland, children struggle to feed and shelter their younger siblings after the deaths of their fathers and mothers from HIV/AIDS. Some youngsters ...

The girl was just 10, living with her five younger brothers and sisters in a small, dirt-floored hut in Zimbabwe. Her father had died of AIDS. Her mother had died of AIDS. Finally, her grandmother ...

Greatness usually arrives veiled in humility. This week, I was privileged to spend many hours with Bishop Mdimi Mhologo who leads the Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika in East Africa. He presides ...

As of press time, the first Ebola victim had been diagnosed here in the U.S.—and approximately 3,000 people have died because of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. But what has been neglected and ...

They watched Disney on Ice, shopped at a mall and rode escalators for the first time. Maryland, after all, is far away from the girls? home in Namibia, Africa the Children of Mount Zion Village, an ...

Every morning, teacher Moira Mahr began her classes at Pacific Grove Middle School by tapping with her students. Not the old school punitive ruler kind of tapping, but a positive emotional technique ...