SAWA Global

A Global Voice for Local Heroes

SAWA Global is online community for sharing short videos on local heroes in the 50 poorest countries that showcase solutions to the critical global problems and to connect YOU with these projects.

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Youth Teaching Youth, Rwanda Added by SAWA Global
Kibera Integrated Project, Kenya Added by SAWA Global

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Featured SAWA Journalists

SAWA Global has 180 reporters globally.

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Denise Rauda

Denise Rauda is from El Salvador, a full time student at Kwantlen University College in Vancouver, BC. Denise knew right away she wanted to be part of SAWA. With a strong desire to help others and be a part of the bigger picture, Denise knew being a part of SAWA would be a great experience allowing her to connect with so many wonderful people from all over the world. Denise has a strong desire to make people more aware of the hardships faced by so many around the world; and to highlight that there are inspiring grassroots solutions making a difference, she is working on an inspiring story from Sierra Leone.

Denise is currently working on a story about a program in Freetown, Sierra Leone, called The Needy Today, which focuses on helping orphans and ex-child soldiers who survived the rebel war by providing food, clothing, medical care, educational support and psychosocial trauma healing. The Needy Today offers the children a protective, healing community. Unfortunately the program is suffering from a lack of funding and is looking for donors to help them continue to care for the orphans. We look forward to hearing more details about the program from Denise in the future and we are happy to have her on board as SAWA searches for inspiring stories from all over the world.
To Learn more: theneedytoday@gmail.com
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SAWA Global vision is to create the world's most impactful online community with short videos on local solutions to global problems. Submit your video clip today on this site. Review the videos and profile on the site to get an idea what we are looking for. Sign up as a member today and profile your own heroes.

We are looking for short videos on extraordinary heroes in the 50 poorest countries that are making inspiring changes in their communities. To learn more visit www.sawaglobal.com.

Blog Posts

Blog # 13: SAWA partners with Working To Empower!

SAWA is making moves! We've just partnered with Working To Empower, an international NGO working with local community leaders in refugee camps across Africa to promote HIV/AIDS education. SAWA is excited to be connected to this NGO composed of partnerships with inspiring grassroots organizations in countries like Tanzania, Benin, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.Working To Empower's core vision lies in community-based empowerment, and its focus is on ensuring co… Continue

Posted by SAWA Global on June 4th, 2008 at 4:14pm — No Comments (Add)

Blog Post #12: Promoting Peace in Sierra Leone: Peter Bangura and the Trauma Healing Centre

SAWA is highlighting some of the 180 journalists or storytellers around the world that help locate and report on the local heroes in the 50 poorest countries. After surviving the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone, which lasted from 1991 to 2002 leaving 50,000 people dead, and escaping, on 5 separate occasions, from the clutches of rebel army groups recruiting child soldiers, twenty two year old Peter A. Bangura formed The Trauma Healing Centre for youth in 2003, a local NGO providing a sense of c… Continue

Posted by SAWA Global on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Forum

Media

It has been the interest of the media to pass the information to individuals or a group of people who share the information being passed by the media. Information is power and when people get to k...

Started by John Kimutai Ngeno Jun 26.

Local solutions for global food shortages? 3 Replies

Global food shortage is one of our largest challenges due in part to unfair and inadequate food distribution and pricing (politics, socio-economics, global economics, oil crisis, etc). One SAWA Glo...

Started by Becky. Last reply by John Kimutai Ngeno Jul 1.

SAWA Forum

SAWA's Forum is for sharing ideas and comments on local projects and heroes in the 50 poorest countries that present inspiring solutions to big problems. This is not a political or religous forum.