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...clothing by size and type, the donations could be more efficiently distributed and provide high-quality merchandise for the agency's two thrift shops. Since the summer of 1998, some 50 people have completed a six-month training program at Pine Street's sprawling warehouse in Boston's Jamaica Plain, handling about 5,000 lbs. of clothing a day. For the first time, the operation is becoming self-sustaining, and, says Schorr, "we are now funding a training program that we might otherwise have had to close." It's a better way of doing good, and for social entrepreneurs, that...
...races, there's still segregation. You still have the African-Americans divided from the Africans divided from the Caribbeans. I assumed all the black people would be like me, it just amazed me that everyone's like, 'Yeah. My mother's from Ghana and my father's from Jamaica." I find that interesting...
Armini said the Fund has done well working its connections. For example, one student has a friend who works for a resort company, so he helped arrange a week vacation at the Enchanted Garden Resort and Spa in Jamaica...
...started with bananas in Europe. After World War II, the continent's banana market divided into two kinds. Such countries as Britain, France and Spain limited imports and gave preferential treatment to bananas grown in their former colonies. Thus Britain encouraged banana output in Jamaica, Dominica, St. Lucia; France extended special treatment to bananas grown in the Ivory Coast and the Cameroons. At the other extreme, Germany offered a free market with no import restrictions or tariffs...
...Luke P. McLoughlin'00 is not volunteering in Mission Hill or Jamaica Plains. And he is not an Institute of Politics wonk...