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!
January 20, 2012 / Peg Willingham
This week, Shot@Life, a movement to protect children worldwide by providing life-saving vaccines where they are most needed, was in Honduras with a delegation of U.S. policymakers.
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December 19, 2011 / Michal Fishman
Since 1960, the death rate of children has decreased dramatically from 20 million to less than eight million today. This decline is one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century.
November 12, 2011 / Doug Holtzman
For the most part we take breathing for granted, but what if you had to fight for each breath?
November 12, 2011 / Melinda Gates
When I was in Kenya earlier this year to help celebrate the global introduction of this new vaccine, I knew the world was on the precipice of major change for the health of children. Now, it’s clear we are well on our way.
November 11, 2011 / Richard Adegbola
The Gambia is a success story--living proof that vaccines can reduce hospital admissions from pneumonia and save the lives of children. Vaccines that prevent pneumonia allow these children to achieve their potential in life, which is every child’s right.