Inside MAZON
MAZON Mission to South Africa, Day 3
The MAZON mission started our day visiting one of our newer grantees: African Solutions for African Problems (ASAP). ASAP works at training women in the townships to care and feed for HIV AIDS children. We were all impressed with the level of commitment that the leadership that one individual can make. ASAP has been working
MAZON Mission to South Africa, Days 1 & 2
The MAZON mission members have arrived safely in Cape Town, South Africa and we hit the road running. On our first full day we did a site visit and volunteer work for an organization called the WAREHOUSE, which is operated by the Anglican Church. The executive director, Craig Stewart, gave us an overview of their
Reflections From Israel
I have just returned from leading another MAZON mission to Israel. For the past decade, MAZON has been a leading entity in targeting strategic grants to struggling Israeli-based anti-hunger organizations from Beer Sheva up to Haifa. For the past three years, MAZON has played a central catalytic leadership role in the Forum to Address Food
A Year Later: The Food Safety Network in New Orleans
I have come to New Orleans today to bear witness to the devastation and to the early stages of renewal of this city. It’s the one-year anniversary of Katrina, and the magnitude of the destruction is still unimaginable. The bleak landscape of flood damage stretches as far as the eye can see. The statistics and
