A comprehensive microcredit bibliography and glossary to help students, researches, and activists to help understand micro-finance from the perspective of borrowers.

This list of online resources will serve to provide background and ongoing education on the issue of child soldiers.

Short video summary for GATHER, an online platform from grassroots leadership development built by the Goldin Institute.

Though it is impossible to obtain accurate figures, it is predicted that between 250,000-300,000 children participate in armed conflict at any one given time. Children in conflict zones are in need of protection from being recruited into armed groups, and former child soldiers who return from armed conflict are in need of concrete plans for reintegration and rehabilitation into their communities (or new communities, if they so wish).

See the progress in solving the water crisis in the Philippines in real time with this interactive map.

Huffington Post article by Travis Rejman and Bishop Ochola calling for the International Criminal Court to send former child soldier Dominic Ongwen home to face restorative justice.

Enough: by the women of Haiti is a documentary highlighting the Security and Sensitization Project in the Place Petion Camp in Port au Prince Haiti.

Video overview of the grassroots movement in the Philippines to bring safe drinking water to over 107 schools serving over 24,000 people in Mindanao.

KOFAVIV co-founder and 2012 CNN Hero of the Year Malya Villard-Appolon was in Chicago to update us on her work providing social and legal support combatting sexual violence against women and girls in Haiti. While she was here, she courageously shared her story on the nationally broadcasted show Worldview at the studios of WBEZ.