Maggie Doyne & Nepal’s Children

Maggie Doyne is someone that I have recently come to know of.  On discovering her and her work in Nepal I knew I had to share what I found with you.  Please if you can do anything at all to help her and the children in Nepal, feel free.  Even just spreading the message about [...]

Video: The life of Kim Dae-jung

From the Al Jazeera Website:

Kim Dae-Jung’s Life Chronology

Chronology—Life of Kim Dae-jung (1924~2009) Early Years • January 6, 1924: Born in Sinan County, South Jeolla Province. • 1943: Graduated from Mokpo Commercial High School, South Jeolla Province. • 1944: Launches the Mokpo Shipping Company. • 1946: Marries Cha Yong-ae, who later gives birth to two sons Hong-il and Hong-eop • 1948-50: Serves as [...]

Kim Dae-Jung Passes Away

Former president of South Korea Kim Dae-Jung has passed away.  He was being treated for pneumonia and has reportedly died of heart failure. “His heart began failing at 1.35 pm and stopped minutes later despite our efforts to revive it,” said the spokesman.  In his career Kim Dae-Jung made it his mission to pursue democracy [...]

Kimmie Weeks: Serving the Children

Bio From IB.ORg Kimmie Weeks has worked to alleviate poverty and human suffering in Africa and around the world since he was fourteen years old. Kimmie was born in Liberia, West Africa in 1981. At the young age of nine he came face to face with civil war, human suffering, and death. Weeks can still [...]

Sofia Servando Baig…Beautiful Soul…Beautiful Words

“Being of Pakistani, Chinese and Spanish background, Montréal born Sofia Servando Baig began penning words of love and hope at an early age. Frustrated with the world’s apathy and indifference to war, pain and suffering, she took it upon herself to use her voice to express her own struggles with life. As a spoken word [...]

Asking you….

I hope you all find what you are looking for here at Hero Beauty. I also hope you can find a moment to stop and click on the Social Vibe widget in the blog’s left column. All you have to do is click the widget, type in who your hero is, and post a little [...]

Books to Consider

Dragon Fighter: One Woman’s Epic Struggle for Peace with China A remarkable autobiographical journey from humble beginnings to a position as a powerful world figure fighting for her nation’s self-determination. Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge stands the four-thousand-year-old homeland of a peaceful people, the Uyghurs. Their culture is filled [...]

Help Aung San Suu Kyi

At causecast.com I was able to find this information on a few ways you can help Aung San Suu Kyi: If you believe Aung San Suu Kyi is being wrongfully imprisoned, here is what you can do right now to help: •Go to Causecast’s FREEDOM TO LEAD page to download Shepard Fairey’s iconic image of [...]

Comfort Women’s Heroic Push for Apology

Elderly comfort women are still fighting hard for a formal apology and recognition.  Radio Australia has recently done a piece covering their struggle. “A diminutive 81-year-old Korean woman is on her third visit to Australia lobbying for increased pressure on Japan over it’s responsibility for war time sex slaves. Gil Won Ok is part of [...]