Providing poor women, including Syrian refugees, in Amman, Jordan, with volunteer opportunities helps them diversify their social networks, enhances their sense of empowerment and wellbeing, and potentially encourages social change, according to a new...
While on deployment to eastern Afghanistan in the early years of the Obama administration, Nerea M. Cal, an Army officer, found herself on an unusual non-combat mission: extracting local Afghans from raging rivers.
Heavy rains had caused flash flooding in...