Today we have the honour to run a guest blog by Mark Laxer who visited ITFC recently. Mark is President and co-founder of Chimp-n-Sea Wildlife Conservation Fund, Mark Laxer invented virtual ecotourism–known as vEcotourism–a real-time, interactive educational system designed to mitigate ill effects of ecotourism. He is also author of The Monkey Bible.

I can still recall the day a few years ago our CEO, 3-time cancer survivor Doug Ulman, returned from Australia and told me, “Hey, I’d like you to see about us getting involved with this organization called Movember.” OK, I said, tell me about them.  He went on to say they were this enthusiastic group of guys who wanted to bring back the moustache (a Mo in Aussie slang) in November, hence: Movember. And in the process they’d spread the word about men’s health, raise some funds, have a lot of fun and a then throw big party afterwa

I’m constantly reminded how good I have it as I sift through human rights issues. It's easy to just brush off the turmoil abroad because it doesn’t make a direct impact on my daily life.

We have new evidence that BPA and methylparaben not only spur normal human breast cells to behave like cancer cells, they also resist the cancer-inhibiting effects of the drug tamoxifen.

LIVESTRONG will be posting regular videos blogs to address cancer related questions asked by our online communities. We will reference our LIVESTRONG Guidebook and www.livestrong.org/get-help in the blogs and encourage you to follow along in these resources for additional tips and advice.

Self Reliance through Microcredit and Education.

Some reach for success. 
Many of the hardworking poor, often illiterate, are entrepreneurs by default

Mentors International would like you to be a part of our 5K!

When: Saturday, September 17th