Twenty-two years ago, Barbara Sarbin of Cortlandt Manor founded the organization “Something Good in the World,” with the intention of providing a safe environment for children to achieve their highest possible potential, ready to take on life’s challenges. A lofty goal, a lofty name. But how to achieve these goals?
Source: Nonprofit helps children find ‘Something Good’ in nature – Westfair Communications By Aleesia Forni. With chalkboards and erasers seemingly a distant memory, many educators dream of classrooms stocked with touch screens, laptops for each student and an array of the latest high-tech equipment. But for Barbara Sarbin, the best educational space can be […]
Unaccompanied children from Central America are seeking asylum in the United States and have nowhere to go. What can we do? Perhaps it is not about what we do, but what we don’t do. I have the honor of working with the ‘other’ refugees – the ones we haven’t been hearing about in the news recently.The […]