Category USA

Heritage seeds as a sustainable solution to water scarcity, food scarcity & global warming

As a sustainability response to climate change and global warming, one strategy that you don’t hear about a lot is farming using heritage seeds. Heritage food plants are plants native to an area and that propagate naturally (as apposed to…

Angela Kirwin
September 4, 2009

Bioethics of Poverty or “Structural Violence”

The greatest bioethics issue of today is the existence of economic and social barriers to health and adequate medical care. In the United States, with the lack of universal healthcare, these barriers are growing with the poverty rate that has…

Angela Kirwin
June 8, 2009

Field Report, USA

Field Report: DC Homeless Children: Helping the Homelss Children’s Playtime Project in Washington, DC for the National Day of Service

Four volunteers of the Kirwin International Relief Foundation (KIRF) headed to Washington, DC on January 16 to provide assistance for homeless children to heed President-Elect Obama’s request for Americans to do a community service project to honor the spirit of…

Angela Kirwin
February 13, 2009

Ventura Family Witnessed History and Helped Homeless Children in Washington, DC

Ventura, California (February 3, 2009): Ventura volunteers Mark, Angela, Kai and Makani Kirwin of Kirwin International Relief Foundation (KIRF) headed to Washington, DC on January 16 to provide assistance for homeless children to heed President-Elect Obama’s request for Americans to…

Angela Kirwin
February 5, 2009

KIRF in DC for family service project

Our family is doing a service project while in Washington, DC to attend President-Elect Obama’s inauguration. We don’t have tickets to anything other than the flights to get there and the airfare and hotel is over our budget. But that…

Angela Kirwin
January 14, 2009

Hurricane Preparedness Tips: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina in Petal, Mississippi

We learned a lot in post-hurricane Katrina Mississippi about what to expect after a major disaster hits and how to prepare for one. Our generous host, tour guide and local KIRF volunteer James Moore – alderman for the woodsy subburb…

Angela Kirwin
January 11, 2006

Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief in Mississippi

Hurricane Katrina was our next disaster relief commitment eight months after we began Kirwin International Relief Foundation (KIRF) with our first disaster relief project in response to the Andaman Sea Tsunami catastrophe in Thailand. Our inititial goal was modest due…

Angela Kirwin
January 10, 2006

Field Report, USA

Field Report: Katrina Youth Project: Ventura’s KIRF Roots & Shoots Holiday Card Exchange

Our Kirwin Family Roots & Shoots initiated a Holiday Card Exchange in December with several hundred elementary school students affected by hurricane Katrina in Picayune, MS to show to show these kids that kids outside of the hurricane disaster area…

Angela Kirwin
January 10, 2006

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