A demostration of a Sure Start Project initiative to promote maternal and newborn health in Kathghara Village, Fatehpur District, U.P., India.
May 18, 2012 by Sita Shankar Wunnava
The woman in the green sari leans over the game of Snakes and Ladders and throws the dice. The women around her groan as she reads the words on the square where she lands.
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Members of a farmers cooperative gather together outside the organization's headquarters in Musaza Village, Rwanda.
May 18, 2012 by Sam Dryden
The challenges smallholder farmers in the developing world face are considerable yet not insurmountable.
Math teacher Doris Zuniz
May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton
I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!
May 22, 2012 / Ezra Teshome
A Vaccinator Story: Rotarians Make Final Push to Defeat Polio in Ethiopia
For the past 16 years Ezra Teshome and his colleagues Ralph Munro, Dave Weaver, Ben Abe have led groups from the US and Canada to participate in the ...
HIV/AIDS
May 22, 2012 / Amie Newman
How To Survive A Plague
How To Survive A Plague, details the early days of what we now know is the AIDS epidemic in the United States; specifically telling the stories of ...
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Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health
May 21, 2012 / Sharon D’Agostino
How Mothers Pay It Forward
Riding in a van several hours beyond Nairobi, I noticed a roadside sign for a nearby hospital. For me, the word “hospital” triggers an image of a ...
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#SmartAid
May 21, 2012 / Amie Newman
What Does the American Public Know About Aid?
The truth is that this assistance, provided strategically, is also fuel to help countries build their own infrastructure to become self-sufficient.
May 18, 2012 / Amie Newman
"We Need An AIDS Vaccine to End the Epidemic"
We're celebrating HIV Vaccine Awareness Day today because it’s more important than ever to acknowledge the work of the scientists, health care ...
May 18, 2012 / Sita Shankar Wunnava
What Does it Take to Save a Life? How About a Game?
The woman in the green sari leans over the game of Snakes and Ladders and throws the dice. The women around her groan as she reads the words on the ...
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Agricultural Development
May 18, 2012 / Sam Dryden
President Obama and Bill Gates on Fighting Hunger and Poverty
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May 17, 2012 / Jennifer James
How Women Will Help Africa Become More Food Secure
Discrimination, gender rights, and land ownership must be fostered in order for women farmers to thrive and produce food for the African continent.
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May 17, 2012 / Melissa Milburn
Back to our Roots - Seeds, Sustainabilily and Saving Lives
Roy Steiner, deputy director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's agricultural development program, talks with Ross Reynolds on NPR KUOW's The ...
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