Shanley Knox decided last summer she wanted to help the women of Eastern Uganda create sustainable businesses.
Auburn resident Knox, 22, made her second trip to Uganda over the su ...
Following are my choices for the top 10 local stories of 2010. They are in reverse order, saving the most prominent for last. Reader interest, and reader feedback, played a large ...
Almost a year after she arrived in Auburn, a rescued orphan from Haiti became an official citizen of the United States.
Last Friday, Marie Guerline Clerge Bryditzki, who is known ...
Auburn Soccer Academy’s Under-18 Blaze competitive soccer team will coach a camp Saturday, May 8, at Placer High to help raise money for orphans in Haiti Saturday at Placer High. ...
Three months after being rescued from the earthquake, Haitian orphan Claire adores being in the United States. And she’s picking up her new language like a magnet.
“She loves ...
I read with great interest the recent Auburn Journal article (April 15) about Jim Wesley’s experience in Haiti attempting to mitigate the disaster stress of orphans.
It remin ...
Children at the Auburn Recreation District’s Discovery Club after-school program recently held a drive to collect personal hygiene items to send to orphanages in Haiti.
More t ...
Weimar College students gathered during their lunch break Tuesday afternoon to sort through donated blankets, sheets and medical supplies.
The students, along with two Weimar Inst ...
The unfortunate crisis in Haiti has made me think of all of the efforts Americans have made to help those less fortunate that us. Temporary shelters, (mostly tents), clean water an ...
Foreign exchange students with Cultural Homestay International have partnered with the Granite Bay Safeway to raise $400 for the Red Cross and UNICEF Haiti relief efforts.
The for ...