Helping

The women and children involved in the Uncommoning in the Andes make up Asociación Ñucanchic Allpa Mamamanta Warmicuna. Credit: Monica Malo, Author provided In the remote Andean community of El Cisne in Ingapirca, Ecuador, one of the first things you'll notice is children's laughter. In a courtyard, women gather with their children to trace ancestral knowledge and memories—and they do this using wool.…

Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in — and it's generating offers of help and housing worldwide.Moved by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment across the former Soviet republic, Marco Burstein, 18, of Los Angeles, and Avi Schiffman, 19, of Seattle, used their coding skills to create UkraineTakeShelter.com over three frenzied days in early March.Since then, more than 18,000…