by Lexie Stallings | Oct 27, 2020 | Advocacy, Leprosy, service, Service Projects, Stigma, Testimonial, Volunteer
“Passion” is defined as a strong and barely controllable emotion. Have you felt that before about a cause? Whether you were marching in a rally, volunteering for an organization, working on a project or studying something you felt strongly about in school,...
by Rising Star Outreach | Sep 14, 2017 | service, Testimonial, Volunteer
Following our daily colony visits, RSO’s mobile medical clinic returned every afternoon to the Rising Star campus where their main medical office is located. The visits to the campus allowed me to experience (and fall head-over-heels for) another aspect of Rising...
by Rising Star Outreach | Sep 14, 2017 | My 100 Daughters, Testimonial, Volunteer
These last six months as I’ve been working on the coloring book My 100 Daughters, I’ve looked through many photographs of the girls of India. Eden is at the bottom there because she’s donating her dresses to the girls of India. The girls I’m drawing are growing...
by Rising Star Outreach | Feb 22, 2017 | Medical, Stigma, Testimonial, Volunteer
We are excited to repost a recent blog entry from Julia Sawatzky. Julia is currently in the midst of an incredible adventure. She is five months into a year-long expedition, exploring and serving in various cities across Asia and Africa before she begins...
by Julia DeLeeuw | Oct 4, 2014 | Padma Venkataraman, Testimonial, Volunteer
It’s our 10 year anniversary of being an NGO in India, and we wanted to take this opportunity to ask Shyam Advani, one of our first general managers, to share a bit about his time with us. His words are as follows:After my wife, Elaine, and I had retired as...
by Julia DeLeeuw | Oct 2, 2014 | Colony Development, Testimonial, Volunteer
We decided to take this #TBT to look back on session 4 with Lon Young and the Community Outreach rotation. Lon’s story goes straight to the heart, and we thought you’d love it as much as we did. We’re hot and sweaty, and we haven’t even...
