Volunteering
How to spend your spring break volunteering with your kids
Here are a couple of ways that you can get creative, spend some quality time with your family and help others during this time of need. With many long-term care facilities and nursing homes no longer allowing visitors, this can be a lonely and stressful time for those most vulnerable to the coronavirus. One way …
How technology is helping employee volunteering drive more change
More than any other industrial revolution that has come before, the fourth industrial revolution has humanity at its core. Ours is a world in crisis and the potential solutions that technology offers to its myriad problems is fuelling creativity and innovation in virtually every sector. The corporate social investment (CSI) space is no different, and …
‘A tidal wave of problems’: texting on the mental health frontline | Society
The computer dashboard at Shout, a suicide prevention text service, flashes up with a new cry for help every minute or two. The really worrying ones are highlighted in yellow by software that attempts to detect if a texter is about to try to kill themselves. Words and phrases such as “overdose” or “I can’t …
Erdogan and Macron clash over Turkish leader’s comments on Muslims in France