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 10, 2012 / Jennifer James
Despite these grim reminders that over 350,000 women die every year during childbirth there are successes and there is movement toward measurable progress to reduce the rate of maternal deaths globally.
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April 25, 2012 / Alexandra Farnum
Today is World Malaria Day. Every day, while we go about our daily life, mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite are making people sick in countries around the world where malaria still exists.
March 23, 2012 / Michal Fishman
Today marks the beginning of a massive four-day polio immunization push in 20 African countries.
March 22, 2012 / Amie Newman
World Water Day is today (March 22nd). But did you know our water crisis is also a crisis of sanitation?
March 07, 2012 / Catherine St. Laurent
While some women across the world are using their voices to engage politically, improve health and economic conditions and demand accountability, a lot of women cannot.