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By Woody Collins, Congo Helping Hands TODAY, I am supposed to be traveling to Taipei, Taiwan for Rotary International’s 2026 Convention. But I could not get to the visa application. Why? My association to the Democratic Republic of the Congo presented two hurdles. First, it was the EBOLA Virus Outbreak. Taiwan cancelled or disapproved all visas to citizens of the Democratic R...

Gene Morita, Trish Morita’s father, is seated on the far right looking at the camera President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared war on December 8, 1941, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942 after the declaration of war, 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to detention camps for the remainder of World War II. This action followed a long history of racist and ...

Chronic pain is more than just physical. It also deeply affects our emotional and psychological well-being. This article will explore in more depth the impact of chronic pain on mental wellness. According to TMS Mental Wellness, millions suffer with ongoing pain caused by injury and nerve damage, as well as conditions such as arthritis or fibromyalgia. Mental Health America s...

By Woody Collins, Congo Helping Hands I still remember leaving Kinshasa, Congo on my first trip in August 1998. It was the first (and only) time in my life that I have faced and heard jeering crowds of people on the streets to the airport. Our mission team was being evacuated out of Congo. It was not an Ebola Virus outbreak! The cause was a potential civil war and fighting he...

See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As the Civil War broke out and White southern men left for the front lines, many enslaved people saw their chance for freedom and fled north. The laws of the time considered them property, and one Union general began to refer to them as contraband of war. This designation, intentionally or not, allowed the Union army t...