Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Some days it seems like the whole world is falling apart: greed and selfishness, our economy is in extreme turmoil, people are becoming more and more angry and scared and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Don’t turn your head from this but don’t worry your [...]

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes This Christmas Pifworld is asking special attention for the Community Midwifery Program in Afghanistan. This project supports the training of local women to provide birth delivery assistance in Afghanistan.   More midwives required In Afghanistan, only 1,500 of the 5,000 midwifes required are available to women that give birth. [...]

I love good old-fashioned snail mail donation request envelopes that come with a free page of address labels adorned with flowers or puppies, but lately giving online has become more exciting seeing than "free gift enclosed" printed on the outside of some of my envelopes. This may stem from the fact that sometimes its even FREE (for me) to give to charities.