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Visions For the Future
Non-Profit Organization building schools in Sri Lanka & Kenya.
"We envision a world where needy and disadvantaged children and adults have educational and professional opportunities to better themselves, enrich their lives and their communities, and contribute to efforts toward bringing their respective developing nations into the modern world through development and growth."



PBS: Independent Lens
"Airing weekly on PBS, the Emmy Award-winning series is like an independent film festival in your living room. Each episode introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent thinkers: filmmakers who are taking creative risks, calling their own shots and finding untold stories in unexpected places."


Idealist
The best resource if you are looking to volunteer locally or globally.. There are thousands of opportunities, just awaiting your time!


Kids with Cameras
A non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world.




Current Affairs

The Economist
Your absolute best source for accurate International News, world current affairs, business, finance, science and technology, culture, society, media and the arts.


More Intelligent Life
"Intelligent Life covers the things that the intellectually curious value in their private lives, from travel and food, to philanthropy and health and from fashion and shopping, to design and the arts. Eclectic and engaging, bursting with insights and anecdotes, packed with people and their stories and ideas, Intelligent Life ranges far, following the mantra "knowledge is pleasure".


Human Rights Watch
"Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes."


BBC World News
For the most up-to-date, accurate, unbiased International World news. Located in the UK, their views are less skewed & more centralized than US World news.


Al Jazeera TV, Al Jazeera YouTube Channel
Arabic TV World News Station based out of Qatar. It is crucial to gain different perspectives, especially in regards to news in the middle east. What US stations like CNN & MSNBC will report, will often have a different view than them. See all sides.




Films that Inspire the Imagination & Travel

Best Travel Reads

Vagabonding
by Rolf Potts

The Alchemist
by Pablo Coelho

The 100 Foot Journey
by Richard C. Morais

Gypset Style
by Julia Chaplin

The Lost Girls
by Jennifer, Holly & Amanda

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
by John Wood

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Geography of Bliss
by Eric Weiner

Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea
by Chelsea Handler

Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts

On The Road, Dharma Bums
and all books by Jack Kerouac

Lonely Planet
for Travel Guides to every country

Dispatches from the Edge
by Anderson Cooper

The Nasty Bits
by Anthony Bourdain


The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne

Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple

Bohemian Manifesto
by Laren Stover

Tales of a Female Nomad
by Rita Golden Gelman





TV Worth Watching

*Travel Channel:
-Anthony Bourdain: "No Reservations"
-Riku & Tunna "Madventures"

*National Geographics:
"Taboo"


*Discovery Channel:
Bear Grylls "Man Vs. Wild"

The Food Channel

*BBC World News (British News)

*CNN:
-Anderson Cooper "360°"
-Larry King Live

*Oprah Winfrey


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