Posts by Carina Bonasera
HSI Is Proud To Support Blessed Beginnings: Helping Survivors of Abuse Find Faith and Start A New Life
The decision to start a new life after abuse is a heroic one, but unfortunately for a number of survivors, the challenges don’t stop there. Many are left with few…
Read MoreU.S. Friends of Hope Flowers School Supports Education, Healing for Children in the West Bank
For more than 300 children living in the West Bank/Palestine, the opportunity to enjoy a reprieve from the mental, emotional, and physical effects of living in an area of conflict…
Read MoreAfros in Nature: Connecting BIPOC with each other and the Earth
When Melanie Lino, co-owner of Lit (a Bethlehem coffee roastery and bakeshop beloved by locals) looked to the Lehigh Valley for a space where Black, Indigenous and people of color…
Read MoreLa Befana and Friends Shares Joy and Cookies through 12 Days of Crazy Love
In ancient Italian folklore, legend has it that an old woman called La Befana flies from house to house leaving toys for good children on the twelfth day of Christmas.…
Read MoreLehigh Valley Anti-Trafficking Week Brings Local Groups Together to Fight Human Trafficking
Humanitarian Social Innovations is thrilled to welcome Lehigh Valley Anti-Trafficking Week to our network of social entrepreneurs. Human trafficking can often seem like a tragedy that happens far from home,…
Read MoreThe Guild of Creative Citizens Aims to Unite and Diversify the Artistic Community
During years of working with nonprofit and arts organizations in the Lehigh Valley, Norberto Dominguez saw a number of flaws with the way these institutions are run — especially when…
Read MoreLove Thy Elders Provides Accessible Peer and Community Connection for Aging Adults
As a child, Amber Phillips developed a passion for working with seniors while caring for her grandparents. Today, she channels that passion into Love Thy Elders Enrichment Services, a North…
Read MoreACDA Transforms the Agoro Community
Humanitarian Social Innovations is excited to welcome Agoro Community Development Association to our community of social entrepreneurs. For the past 50 years, Northern Uganda has been ravaged by conflict and…
Read MoreAkua Career Academy: Changing the Stigma of Disabilities
In Southern Ghana, lack of understanding and acceptance of those born with disabilities creates barriers to success for individuals and families of individuals who are disabled. They are treated differently…
Read MorePillar of Health Provides Affordable Health Insurance to Youths with Type I Diabetes in Rwanda
Humanitarian Social Innovations is thrilled to welcome Pillar of Health to our network of social entrepreneurs. Reflecting on the work of his nonprofit organization, Pillar of Health, founder Laurien Sibomana…
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