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...After Khan’s speech, Heather Danton, food security and livelihoods advisor for Save the Children, talked about the organization’s efforts to fight hunger around the world. Danton said the money raised from the Fast-A-Thon would go to the Horn of Africa and Pastoralist Initiative. Danton also said she appreciated the size, diversity, and energy of the crowd. “I really applaud this effort [to raise] awareness about Islam in such a positive way and [think] that it is wonderful that you link to the issue of hunger...
Wright is a case in point. Look into the face of this Aboriginal advocate and mother of two, and an even more fascinating story unfolds. Wright's great-grandfather was a Chinese market gardener who was introduced to her great-grandmother by the pastoralist Frank Hann. "The story goes that she and another little girl were found up a tree," says Wright, who has long speculated on how she came to be there and on the family's Chinese ancestry: "How do the spirits connect when people come from other countries?" It's a question she'll explore...
...ongoing Darfur genocide is a terrible humanitarian crisis. The “Janjawid,” armed men on horses, sponsored by the Sudanese government, have targeted mainly members of the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa ethnic groups and other agro-pastoralist groups living in Darfur. The crimes done to humanity are enormous—roughly 1.2 million people have been displaced, women’s rights are being severely violated, and estimates for the death toll are over...
...frustrations were increased by his career. He was not an intellectual at all. He had none of the instincts of an administrator or clerical politician. By nature he was a pastoralist -- that is, he loved the care of souls. People meant everything to him. His greatest delight -- and temptation, as he freely admitted -- was to sit in the kitchen of a teeming, pulsating Italian household, chatting to the women as they went about their work, telling stories to the children, cracking jokes with the men. Instead, his superiors made him spend most of his life as a diplomat, culminating...
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