Archive for the 'E-chievement Award' Category

Child Rights Advocate Kimmie Weeks Receives E-Chievement Award

Friday, October 30th, 2009

In this week’s broadcast, eTown presents the E-Chievement Award to Kimmie Weeks, founder of Youth Action International (YAI). Kimmie is an acclaimed youth activist, motivational speaker, and a survivor of the Liberian Civil War. As a boy, he endured unspeakable horrors in an overcrowded refugee camp in Liberia. This led him to his life’s work: [...]

A Note From Helen … Etown taping with Bruce Cockburn and Brett Dennen

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I hope you are all enjoying these lazy, hazy days of summer. I wanted to let you know about this week’s broadcast, which is an encore airing of a show we did originally in Vermont a year or two ago. It ended up being so good that we decided to treat you to it again. [...]