Sarah Stuteville – Page 8 – The Seattle Globalist

Sam Hassan gathers players from all the teams competing in the upcoming All Nations Cup Tuesday at Shoreline Stadium. Based on the World Cup of soccer, the tournament brings together local athletes of different nationalities for a two-week tournament. (Photo by Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

All Nations Cup brings geopolitics to Shoreline soccer pitch

by Sarah Stuteville

Seattle’s own “mini World Cup” puts the Northwest’s global diversity on display.

Study abroad: It’s not just for rich kids anymore

by Sarah Stuteville

International travel can be a defining moment in a young person’s life. But without help, financial and cultural barriers will keep a lot of young Americans from ever getting outside our borders.

Journalist flees Sri Lanka media crackdown, seeks safety in Northwest

by Sarah Stuteville

Death threats, arson and political attacks came with the job for Frederica Jansz, a Sri Lankan journalist seeking asylum in the Northwest.

Bob Dempster pushes over the rudder of The Seattle II, a Douglas World Cruiser replica built nearly from scratch that he and his wife, Diane, intend to fly around the world. (Photo by Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Local couple’s around-the-world flight plan for peace

by Sarah Stuteville

Bob and Diane Dempster are flying a replica 1920’s era open-cockpit plane around the world to commemorate a milestone in aviation history.

Abraham Tesfelaise, with his painting "Seattle" at the Downtown YMCA. (Photo by Coleen McDevitt)

Here to escape war, award-winning artist works to smile

by Sarah Stuteville

For Eritrean refugee Abraham Tesfelaise the two things most teenagers dread, high school and going to the dentist, are the stuff of dreams.

Rob Anderson (right) senior project manager with Seattle-based EarthCorps, cuts a section of a blackberry plant for a group of international volunteers learning about invasive plants as part of a six-month program here on conservation and sustainability. (Photo by Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

EarthCorps program plants the seeds of global environmentalism

by Sarah Stuteville

Twelve volunteers from around the world are in the Northwest building environmental restoration skills they’ll use to protect ecosystems back home.

Produce business sprouts from an unlikely patch in Rainier Valley

by Sarah Stuteville

New Holly Market Garden, started 20 years ago by immigrants and refugees on an unused basketball court in Southeast Seattle, is now one of two city P-Patches selling organic produce by subscription.

A discarded can of US food aid in Ethiopia. (Photo by Alex Stonehill)

WA farmers and charities fixing to fight against food aid reform

by Sarah Stuteville

President Obama’s food-aid reform proposals sound like a common sense way to feed more of the world’s poor. But from farms, to ports, to global charities, Washington State has a lot riding on the status quo.

The power of film to unite, from Rwanda to Seattle

by Sarah Stuteville

A new film about Rwanda’s burgeoning film industry shows how the collective moviegoing experience has the power to heal the scars of genocide.

A Mother’s Day gift from Seattle to Kenya

by Sarah Stuteville

Motivated by her own complicated pregnancy, Heidi Breeze-Harris founded One by One, a Seattle-based organization working to wipe out obstetric fistula in Africa.

Indian woman’s quest to end the cycle of prostitution comes to Mercer Island

by Sarah Stuteville

Seven years after I met her in the red light district of Kolkata, the founder of New Light, a shelter for the children of prostitutes, has proven just how much one woman with a vision can achieve.

Bangladesh garment workers demand US retailers “End Death Traps”

by Sarah Stuteville

Fires at garment factories in Bangladesh have killed more than 600 workers since 2006. This week a survivor visited Seattle to confront consumers with the human cost of cheap apparel.

Your hitchhiking days are over, young lady!

by Sarah Stuteville

Technology is great. But has too much connection with home spoiled the freedom of travel?

From Iraq to Sea-Tac, refugee adjusts to new life in the Northwest

by Sarah Stuteville

Iraqi refugee Muthanna Al Nidawi has gone from protecting his family from assassins in Baghdad, to protecting fragile glass art at in Seattle.

We Day: A party with a purpose softens skeptic

by Sarah Stuteville

At first, We Day seemed like an elaborate star-studded party to entice youth to care about social causes. Which is why at 6 a.m., I rode a bus packed with cheering, youth “crowd-pumpers” to We Day to find out for myself.

Who gives a crap about World Water Day?

by Sarah Stuteville

As if high school isn’t awkward enough, I’m sitting among tittering teenagers in Chief Sealth’s auditorium listening to a man yell about poop.

Maria-Jose Soerens, a local organizer for the Evangelical Immigration Table. (Photo by Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times)

What would Jesus do with a broken immigration system?

by Sarah Stuteville

Evangelical leaders are drawing on scripture to muster conservative support for immigration reform.

Flood of health data reveals sickly similarities around the globe

by Sarah Stuteville

The same diseases that are the top killers in the US are now the leading causes of death worldwide as well. So is it a sign of progress or apocalypse?

Can the fair trade movement deliver guilt-free chocoholism?

by Sarah Stuteville

When you’re selling a global product sourced in poor countries, there’s no simple path to a clear conscience.

Immigration reform push is promising, but problematic, for local families

by Sarah Stuteville

The five paragraphs President Obama devoted to the issue of immigration in his State of the Union speech Tuesday did not impress a OneAmerica watch party in Seattle.