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The Village Community Services Trust

January 4, 2011 by  
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“Focuses on Pasifika and Maori communities unique needs and issues. At the very heart of the organisation is the creed or kaupapa that ‘it takes a Village to raise a child’. Underpinning this idea is the belief that as responsible members of our community, they have a collective responsibility to play whatever part they can […]

Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity

January 3, 2011 by  
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Robert Gupta, violinist with the L.A Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician and what he learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.

Jane Goodall: Helping humans and animals live together

January 3, 2011 by  
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The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, that help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals.

Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans

January 3, 2011 by  
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Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time.

Sheryl WuDunn: Our century’s greatest injustice

January 3, 2011 by  
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Sheryl WuDunn’s book “Half the Sky” investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using all our human resources.

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