Six Student Ambassadors of The Echo Foundation “ECHO ABROAD: Footsteps in Rwanda” program will travel to Rwanda for two weeks of leadership training and international service July 4-18, 2010. The Student Ambassadors are Charlotte-area high school students and recent high school graduates chosen for the program on the basis of academic merit, demonstrated community service, […]

Actor Don Cheadle is known around the world as an advocate of environmental issues. His work on clean energy and climate change and his avid campaigning for genocide victims were all reasons the United Nations named him a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program last week during a ceremony to mark World Environment Day.