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IMPACT serves to raise money for small non-profits in developing countries that benefit children. Remaining apolitical has allowed us to focus on immediate relief and serving basic needs, such as food, shelter and clothing, and promoting literacy and education in places where children wouldn’t normally have access to these simple resources. Being apolitial, however, does limit us. It means that we’ll take great pains to not objectify women, but also not to slam the “beauty pageant regime”—this is neither our focus nor our place...
Elsewhere in Ahmadabad, Congress Party politician Ahsan Jafri gave shelter to fellow Muslims in his home, part of a 16-house Muslim colony. When the mob came, Jafri fired his revolver, injuring a few attackers. Furious, the crowd tore into the colony, dragging out the residents and setting them ablaze. Jafri and his family died. In the Hindu mob was a schoolboy, Roshan, 12. From a safe distance, he claimed, he saw Jafri's daughters being stripped and raped. He sounded frightened but admiring. When he grew up, would he do that? "Maybe not rape," he said thoughtfully...
...still in Tachileik, where they have taken shelter with an older friend. It is not a happy ending. And many could argue that we did the wrong thing, that by paying money for the girls, we were only perpetuating the trade, that helping them take only one step toward freedom was not enough. But at least Lek and Tip have some choices this time...
...wine. No sooner do we sit down than Zhao Wei offers us a glass, then waits five minutes before prising the cigarettes from our hand. She talks casually about weight problems, paying tax bills and Pen?lope Cruz. It's like being down the pub with your best mate seeking shelter from a storm?in this case the wild winds of Zhao's cinematic success...
...weapons and tactics used by the guerrillas in Mangalsen have fueled suspicions that they have received training and aid from India's equally brutal communist rebels. Most of the Maoists' political leaders, including the group's founder, former agricultural student Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda, have found shelter across the border in the northern jungles of Bihar State. The emboldened rebels are also striking isolated army posts to seize automatic weapons. The arms used with such devastation at Mangalsen?5-cm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and Indian self-loading rifles, according to Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times...