Today is ‘Giving Tuesday’. It seems only fair that organisations working to redress the economic, environmental, social and spiritual impacts of rampant consumerism would get their turn in the spotlight, right? The first thing I want to say is that more often than not, the most efficient and effective way to take action on issues [...]
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Give a little Tuesday
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Posted in Changemakers, Doing good, Ways to help | 2 Comments »
A few good things (my weekly round-up of links from across the interwebs)
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
I started out calling these posts ‘A few good things’ And then I realised the links I’m drawn to, the things I want to share, are often a little bit intense (see today’s poem). They might not seem like ‘good things’ to everyone else. But I do believe they are good. They may not be [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Being the change, Development, Doing good, Good things, Story-telling, Ways to help | 2 Comments »
Three reasons Karma yoga may not be right for you.
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Registrations for my annual Karma edition of 30 Days of Yoga close this coming Saturday (midnight GMT, which means 5pm PST) and I know some of you are wondering if this is right for you. So I’ve been giving some thought to how I can help you decide whether or not this is right for you [...]
Posted in 30 days of yoga, Ways to help, Yoga | No Comments »
Be Well. Do Good. The Girl Effect and You.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by all there is to do in the world? I know I do. When I wrote my Girl Effect post yesterday I wanted to remind you that the world can be made fairer, that girls everywhere can have more opportunities and greater freedom, that unjust global systems can be changed. [...]
Posted in Being the change, Development, Doing good, self care, Service, Ways to help | 4 Comments »
The Girl Effect
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Remember the Girl Effect? Last year I took part in the Girl Effect blogging campaign led by Tara Mohr. I got so excited by the conversation, I wrote four posts. First I wrote about Faezeh. If you haven’t yet, take five minutes and watch this video Faezeh and I made to see the Girl Effect in [...]
Posted in Being the change, Development, Doing good, Ways to help | 7 Comments »
Write a new chapter in the story of poverty
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Depending how long you’ve been reading along here, you may or may not know that I used to work for Oxfam. And that I think Oxfam does great work – not just great development work, but really great advocacy and policy work. I went to work for Oxfam when I left the UN because I [...]
Posted in Development, Doing good, Good things, Service, Story-telling, Ways to help, Writing | 3 Comments »
UPDATE: If we raise $5000 by tomorrow, Suraya could get an extra $5000
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
It’s already Mothers Day here in New Zealand and Australia. My mum lives too far away for anything but a phone call, but I was able celebrate mothers day today by babysitting for a friend so she could get some mama-time-out to play with her Sunday afternoon soccer team. They lost, sadly. But I had [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Ways to help | 3 Comments »
To Suraya With Love 2.0
Friday, May 6th, 2011
(As a special birthday treat for me this morning, it seems, the internet gremlins ate my post about Suraya. When I woke up it had simply disappeared, together with your comments on it and links to it. I’ve had to recreate it. Doh!) I’ve been working on this post for weeks trying to work out [...]
Tags: afghan women, Afghanistan, mothers day, suraya pakzad
Posted in Afghanistan, Development, Ways to help | 5 Comments »
It’s time to stand (and shout) with Afghan women
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I alerted you all to a concerning move by the Government of Afghanistan to take over women’s shelters in the country. Many of you responded to this issue by writing to your Ambassadors in Kabul and to other key players. Thank you! As a result of international pressure, the Government [...]
Tags: horia mosadiq, human rights
Posted in Afghanistan, Ways to help | 3 Comments »
Why I’m not going to South Africa
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Remember how I decided to try to raise US$20,000 for HIV/AIDs projects in South Africa? How that was about the same amount that I earned in 2009? How the whole idea scared the sh#t out of me because I didn’t know if I could do it, and because I hate trying something, especially publicly, and [...]
Tags: seva, south africa
Posted in Being the change, Letting go, Ways to help | 22 Comments »
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Welcome! I'm Marianne. I'm a writer, human rights advocate and yoga teacher. Creator of the 30 Days of Yoga course. Author of Zen Under Fire, and a Huffington Post contributor.
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