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Help! We Need Air Quality Heroes

January 27, 2013 / Lillie Marshall

Do you still think the campaign for clean air is a fluffy afterthought best left to hippies or generally ignored? Before I breathed in India and China, that was what I thought.

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Impatient Bloggers News of the Day

January 09, 2012 / Amie Newman

News of today, yesterday, and tomorrow!

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Building Stronger Communities Through Public Libraries

August 12, 2010 / Deborah Jacobs

The vision of the foundation’s Global Libraries initiative is to improve people’s lives through useful, used, and sustainable public access to information and communications technology in public libraries.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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