BY KIM HUGHES, www.samaritanmag.com
It is no exaggeration to say that being born "albino" in the East African nation of Tanzania is one of the unluckiest fates life can hand you. It's also fair to say that Canadian activist and philanthropist Peter Ash has done more to assist Tanzanians with albinism though advocacy, education, funding and sheer resolve than anyone else on the planet.
In most parts of the world, albinism is seen for what it is: a congenital disorder characterized by the absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to the absence or defect of an enzyme involved...
BY JORDAN ADLER, www.samaritanmag.com
When M&M Meat Shops co-founder Mac Voisin decided that his frozen foods business would start donating to a little-known cause in 1989 -- less than a decade after he started M&M Meats with Mark Nowak -- he made what he calls "the big discovery." He found that Canada had the highest incidence per capita of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the world.
"At that time, there were about 150,000 sufferers and [Canadians] raised next to nothing for research. So we said, 'Well, why don't they raise any money for research?' And [scientists] said, 'Well,...
BY JIM SLOTEK, www.samaritanmag.com
A former member of the Black Power movement, and an usher at the funeral of the slain Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., actor Samuel L. Jackson has long been involved with Los Angeles-based Artists For A New South Africa (ANSA), a non-profit organization whose original mission was to end the white apartheid regime, but now tackles AIDS/HIV and various medical and rights issues in Africa and the U.S., particularly for children.
"We have AIDS initiatives and we dig wells for kids and families who have to travel long distances to get water and we build schools,"...
BY NICK KREWEN, www.samaritanmag.com
Members of the Canadian music industry now have somewhere to turn when they experience hard times.
Operating under the slogan "Created by the music community for the music community," The Unison Benevolent Fund (UBF) will eventually provide emergency relief for the estimated 12,800-strong Canadian music industry workforce that are self-employed or contract workers and aren't eligible for the benefits usually earned by salaried workers. .
However, UBF executive director Sheila Hamilton tells Samaritanmag the fund isn't quite operational, despite the...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Guitarist-singer Brian "Head" Welch, who now fronts Love And Death, co-founded Californian nu metal band Korn in 1993, but the hard partying lifestyle left him addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs and alcohol. After getting clean and sober, he quit the multi-platinum-selling band in 2005, saying he wanted to devote his life to Christianity.
That did not mean giving up music, however, just conducting himself differently, which included wanting to give unto others.
Welch got a little carried away at first. One thing he contemplated was building...
BY KIM HUGHES, www.samaritanmag.com
If the best way to de-stigmatize something is to boldly put it under people's noses, then Frances Darwin's Henna Heals is making conditional female baldness both acceptable and, perhaps improbably, kind of chic.
The Toronto-based photographer's company provides a novel service: beautiful designs applied to the smooth skulls of cancer patients who've lost their hair due to chemotherapy using naturally sourced henna dyes.
The swirling, intricate drawings, which are safe, temporary and applied by skilled artists, command the eye to the head of the...
BY KIM HUGHES, www.samaritanmag.com
It is no exaggeration to say that being born "albino" in the East African nation of Tanzania is one of the unluckiest fates life can hand you...
BY JORDAN ADLER, www.samaritanmag.com
When M&M Meat Shops co-founder Mac Voisin decided that his frozen foods business would start donating to a little-known cause in 1989...
BY NICK KREWEN, www.samaritanmag.com
Members of the Canadian music industry now have somewhere to turn when they experience hard times.
Operating under the slogan "Created by...
BY KIM HUGHES, www.samaritanmag.com
If the best way to de-stigmatize something is to boldly put it under people's noses, then Frances Darwin's Henna Heals is making conditional...
BY JIM SLOTEK, www.samaritanmag.com
A former member of the Black Power movement, and an usher at the funeral of the slain Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., actor Samuel L. Jackson has long been involved with Los Angeles-based Artists For A New South Africa (ANSA), a non-profit organization whose original mission was to end the white apartheid regime, but now tackles AIDS/HIV and various medical and rights issues in Africa and the U.S., particularly for children.
"We have AIDS initiatives and we dig wells for kids and families who have to travel long distances to get water and we build schools,"...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Guitarist-singer Brian "Head" Welch, who now fronts Love And Death, co-founded Californian nu metal band Korn in 1993, but the hard partying lifestyle left him addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs and alcohol. After getting clean and sober, he quit the multi-platinum-selling band in 2005, saying he wanted to devote his life to Christianity.
That did not mean giving up music, however, just conducting himself differently, which included wanting to give unto others.
Welch got a little carried away at first. One thing he contemplated was building...
