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Ruth E. Skovron

Ruth E. Skovron

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When Ruth Skovron retired to rural Connecticut in 1995 after running a community newspaper in New Jersey, she floundered. “Without the newspaper, and my children now far away, my moorings were gone,” she says. She threw herself into the local government of Falls...
Stephen Shames

Stephen Shames

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

The life of a child in Uganda can be bleak: More than a million orphans are living with AIDS; millions have been affected by a 20-year war, including tens of thousands of child soldiers; and many live in extreme poverty, with one-third of Ugandans living on $1 a day....
Toni Maloney

Toni Maloney

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When Toni Maloney first visited the Kabul Women’s Garden, a shopping center in Afghanistan’s capital city where only women can work or shop, it had no electricity. Kerosene stoves provided the heat for the 5-by-10-foot retail spaces. The marketing executive watched as...
Jerry Moles

Jerry Moles

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

A native son of rural Virginia, Jerry Moles spent decades as a college professor and consultant helping rural communities cultivate productive, income-generating and environmentally friendly agricultural businesses. He worked mostly on the West Coast and in Sri Lanka....
Irene Pritzker

Irene Pritzker

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Visiting Africa, IDP Foundation president Irene Pritzker witnessed firsthand the deplorable conditions of Ghana’s poor, low-cost private schools – no books, no ventilation, open sewage. When she learned they rarely qualified for government funding or...