I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh earlier this month meeting with US military and civilian personnel to discuss how Spirit of America's assistance could help improve stability in the country. During one of my meetings I heard about a great organization called Thrive. They...
Imagine more than 200 armed fighters marching into your town, taking hostages and using your friends, family and neighbors as human shields. Then imagine this lasting for 19 days, over the course of which 10,000 homes in your city are burned. Some 120,000 Filipinos...
As you know, the intentions of most international aid organizations are pure, but as an aid worker, I can tell you that many organizations’ methods of helping are not always as effective or beneficial as they could be because they lack the proper procedures for...
Today I'd like to provide an update regarding a project we first told you about here. The US Army civil affairs team in the small-yet-important Eastern European country of Georgia is working with their local military partners to improve care for critically wounded...
Over the summer I was contacted by a Civil Affairs officer from the 84th Civil Affairs Battalion who had recently returned from Vietnam. While there, she met an ex-patriot, J.T., who was working with the US Embassy to address the...
Greetings, I recently returned from ten days in Niger, the culmination of a project Spirit of America has been working on since the beginning of the year. Niger, just to the north of Nigeria, with Mali to its west, Chad to its east, and northern borders with Libya and...
At a critical time, when the government and citizens of Afghanistan are determining the future of the country, the questions have to be asked: Why do Afghan women still face the barriers they do? Why is it that women are still part of the worldwide struggle for...
Today, we’d like to update you on our work helping a democracy stand tall in the face of relentless threats against its way of life. That democracy is Taiwan, a close friend of the United States in the Asia-Pacific. The Taiwanese people believe that the best way to...
Taiwan, like all global democracies, is facing unprecedented external threats to its freedoms and way of life. Spirit of America is working to help protect Taiwan’s democracy and to help Taiwanese citizens increase their resiliency in the event of an emergency. You...
