Volunteering Stories

Dark_Apollo

28 Oct 2016

The Story of Polio

The story of polio from its earliest beginnings to its expected eradication

The story of polio probably began long ago in the cities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Northern India, where the conditions were right for transmission of the virus – chiefly high population density and rudimentary sanitation. It is a story that experts in P...

ladysharon

19 Dec 2014

The Toy Drive

A young woman gets a new lease on life and an opportunity.

For the past few years, I was a ne’er do well. I was the one kid from the Houston ghettoes that would throw illegal raves, steal cars, run a couple meth labs, run drugs to Mexico and saw the inside of a jail cell more times than dudes saw the panty line o...