Felix Sacco was a 17-year-old senior at Saugus High School, Saugus Massachusetts who took his own life in late September 2010.  According to his mother, Felix had been seeing a psychiatrist (and in fact had an appointment earlier in the week) to cope... Read More

Raymond Chase was 19-years-old when he hung himself in his college dorm room on September 29, 2010 . Raymond was a student of culinary arts at Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island. Although, many have killed themselves because of anti-gay bullying... Read More

September 25, 2010, Harrison Chase Brown committed suicide in Rand, Colorado. Harrison Brown was a sophomore at Poudre High School.... Read More

In the United States there are programs within the public school systems to assist children with reduced resources to be able to have a light meal cum snack before school and a reduced price lunch during school. When the... Read More

The United States census bureau recently released the statistics on poverty.  The numbers indicated 1 in 7 Americans are living below the poverty line. When you say it that way it doesn’t sound so bad does it, just 1 in 7.  Maybe... Read More

Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River on September 22, 2010 after a recording of him with a man was broadcast online. Tyler was 18 years of age and a freshman at Rutgers University. I... Read More

Seth Walsh - On Sept. 19, his single mother Wendy found him unconscious; he had tried to hang himself from a tree in his backyard after another apparent bullying incident. He lingered on life support for more than a week... Read More

On 15 September, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security conducted a hearing on “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking” in the United States. (NB: A minor in the United States is an individual under the age of 18.) On ongoing issue in... Read More

How long would it take you to count to 925 million aloud?  More than your lifetime.  Count to 60 for me.  In the time it took you to count to 60, ten children died due to undernourishment.  I’ve written that Hunger Should... Read More

Today is the 14th, one day shy of mid-month of Hunger Action Month, where if we (that is you and I) give a little we feed a lot.  Just exactly how little. In my #VFD2010 (Virtual Food Drive 2010) your... Read More

Breakfast is the meal which energizes us for the day. Unfortunately, not all in the United States have the means to provide their families with this all important meal. One in six families are food insecure in the United States... Read More

Cody Barker, a 17-year-old who took his own life on September 13, 2010 attended Shiocton High School in Shiocton, Wisconsin.  His mother, Darla Barker says the she suspects that bullying did play a role in her son’s death.  Cody was active... Read More

Billy Lucas - His mother noted that he had told his friends that others were bothering him and harassing him. One classmate noted that "the bullies would call Billy, 'gay and tell him to go kill himself'"... Read More

This morning I read an extraordinarily uplifting piece about the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. They have declared hunger to be illegal. I shalln't recap the entire article (see link below), but allow me to highlight some... Read More

Brittany Helton was a 19-year-old who lived in Muncy, PA.  According to her obituary, Brittany ‘would have been a sophomore at Lycoming College, where she was on the Dean’s List and was a member of the Computer Club.”   On August 4, 2010... Read More

Justin Aarberg was a 15-year-old who on July 9, 2010 reached his the limit of his ability to cope, just weeks after finishing his freshman year at Anoka High School in Anoka, MN he killed himself. ... Read More

You don’t hear North Dakota associated with human trafficking often, but the reality is human trafficking touches all 50 states of the United States, and North Dakota is no exception.  Though the Attorney General of North Dakota advises that human trafficking... Read More

I recently spoke at an event in Seattle on the security aspects of Social Media, both from the business and personal perspective.  One question which I fielded surrounded whether or not there is risk to children via the various social... Read More

The United Nations Security Council met on 16 June to discuss Children and Armed Conflict and “debated” the UN Secretary-General’s ninth report published on 13 April. What’s to debate?  Children involvement in armed conflict is wrong, and unfortunately the tragedy is,... Read More

I just finished thumbing through the 373 page 10th Annual Report in the Trafficking in Persons from the US Department of State.  You owe it to yourself to garner a modicum of understanding as to how the scourge of human trafficking feeds... Read More