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Health

A demostration of a Sure Start Project initiative to promote maternal and newborn health in Kathghara Village, Fatehpur District, U.P., India.
What Does it Take to Save a Life? How About a Game?

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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Poverty

Members of a farmers cooperative gather together outside the organization's headquarters in Musaza Village, Rwanda.
President Obama and Bill Gates on Fighting Hunger and Poverty

May 18, 2012 by Sam Dryden

The challenges smallholder farmers in the developing world face are considerable yet not insurmountable.

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Education

Math teacher Doris Zuniz
My Favorite Teacher? Don't Make Me Choose

May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton

I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!

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Combining Commercial Opportunity with Environmental Sustainability

March 05, 2012 / Bruce McNamer

The 2 billion people who live and work on small farms in developing countries are victims of paradox.

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Category Poverty
Topics Agricultural Development
Country Africa, India

Better Farms, Improved Lives

August 10, 2010 / Bill Gates

With support from the foundation, six nonprofit agricultural development organizations are helping hundreds of thousands of poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia grow more productive, profitable, and sustainable crops.

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Category Poverty
Topics Agricultural Development

Addressing the Needs of Smallholder Farmers

May 06, 2010 / Sylvia Burwell

At the World Economic Forum on Africa in Dar es Salaam this week, participants will be generating new ideas to unlock Africa’s economic potential—from investing in new technologies, to opening new markets for African-made goods and services, to tapping the continent’s rich natural resources in ways that benefit all Africans.

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Category Poverty
Topics Agricultural Development
Country Tanzania

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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 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
The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.
In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.