By Gary Hume | May 31, 2016
I’m a psychoanalyst and photographer. For years, I’ve advocated incorporating mental health care into humanitarian work. My nonprofit Cameras Without Borders has used photography as a therapeutic tool to help more than 500 people in northern Uganda and...
By Gary Hume | May 31, 2016
I have been a longtime volunteer for nonprofits serving the homeless. First I volunteered for a group trying to start a homeless shelter in an area that had none. When another group started an overnight shelter in a nearby city, I changed my group’s mission to...
By Gary Hume | May 31, 2016
Encore.org visited an education center run by Proyecto Pastoral, in a working-class neighborhood of Los Angeles, where a dedicated band of Senior Corps tutors work 15 to 40 hours a week with eager preschoolers – kids who could otherwise fall behind in school...
By Gary Hume | May 31, 2016
From childhood, I was always interested in art and started quilting at age 6. Allowed to watch television only if I was doing something constructive, that “something” was quilting. Even as a kid, you could say I was interested in social activism. I...
By Gary Hume | May 18, 2016
Collin Smith grew up in Asheboro, North Carolina. When he was a sophomore in high school, he was in a car accident that left him quadriplegic. Ernest Greene, who was 72 at the time of this interview, attended the same church as Collin’s family, and...
