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Global Activism: Tikondane helps communities in Zambia

Apr. 11, 2013
Coming off a successful 2013 Global Activism Expo, we visit with one of this year’s attendees. Elke Kroeger-Radcliffe, founder and director of Tikondane, a “community uplift organization” based in Katete, Zambia, tells us about her latest projects and the people involved with her work.

Film ‘The Carrier’ explores HIV/AIDS in Zambia

Mar. 6, 2012
The Carrier is a lyrical film that follows Mutinta Mweemba, a 28-year-old subsistence farmer. Mutinta fell in love with dreams of marriage, children and a better life, but her new husband came with two other wives.

Worldview 3.6.12

Mar. 6, 2012
Five months after the CIA killed American-born cleric and Al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at Northwestern University yesterday about how the U.S. can legally kill American citizens on foreign soil.

Global Activism: A community centre in Zambia helps keep a village employed

May. 19, 2011
Elke Kroeger-Radcliffe is the founder of the Tikondane Community Centre.

Global Activism: Spark Ventures works with vulnerable kids in Zambia

Nov. 4, 2010
Each Thursday we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Rich Johnson is one of the co-founders of Spark Ventures. One summer night in 2006, Rich and two of his closest friends went out to a movie.
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