The Green Children are Norwegian Milla Sunde and English Marlow Bevan. The duo’s ethereal electro-pop album Encounter was released to high acclaim in autumn last year. Encounter’s title song is inspired by the original green children of Woolpit, Suffolk. Taking such a mainstream pop route is unusual in ‘faerie’ music, but it’s an approach that works – Encounter is dreamy, uplifting and very listenable.
As well as being talented musicians, Milla and Marlow are also committed humanitarians. Their Green Children Foundation is a charity which aims to help the poor of the world through supporting microcredit, education and healthcare. Funds raised through sales of CD/DVD package have been used to build an eye care hospital in rural Bangladesh which opened in 2008 and serves some 60,000 patients already.

The Green Children are Norwegian Milla Sunde and English Marlow Bevan. The duo’s ethereal electro-pop album Encounter was released to high acclaim in autumn last year. Encounter’s title song is inspired by the original green children of Woolpit, Suffolk. Taking such a mainstream pop route is unusual in ‘faerie’ music, but it’s an approach that works – Encounter is dreamy, uplifting and very listenable.
As well as being talented musicians, Milla and Marlow are also committed humanitarians. Their Green Children Foundation is a charity which aims to help the poor of the world through supporting microcredit, education and healthcare. Funds raised through sales of CD/DVD package have been used to build an eye care hospital in rural Bangladesh which opened in 2008 and serves some 60,000 patients already.

In the modern world when we use the word "charity", we usually mean the giving of help to those who are in need, perhaps in the form of money, food, clothes or medicine, free services or some other kind of aid. However the word "charity" carries a much more important sense as well. It was derived from the Latin "caritas", which means preciousness, dearness, high price, and in Christian theology this word was used in order to describe an unlimited loving-kindness to all others.

Journalist and author Kara Richardson Whitely set out to lose weight and climb Mount Kilimanjaro. When she used her trek to help raise money for charity, she found a whole new purpose in life.

I never judge. It's not nice. Who am I to judge, really? But - if I may now judge - have you ever read those news stories about people who raise money online for really dubious causes? I'm not talking about raising money for, say, a charity, or to put a new Dewey Decimal system in a public library (very worthy).