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Malawi Inventor Lights Up His Whole Village Basically for Free–Starting With a Bicycle and a River
“To invent,” Thomas Edison said, “you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Colrerd Nkosi had all the junk he needed—and the will...
Malawi Celebrates Dramatic Drop in Child Mortality–280,000 Kids Saved
Despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Malawi has reduced its child mortality rate by more than two-thirds, saving the lives...
Malawi Chief Annuls Child Marriages, Sends Kids to School
Child advocates cheered the news in April when Malawi, an African nation with one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world,...
Little Dresses Bring Hope to Malawi
Rachel O'Neill fell in love with the sweeping vistas of Malawi, Africa, but especially with the little girls, whose only clothing were the thread-bare...
TV Viewers Rally to Lift 120,000 Malawi Kids Off the Ground
Six months ago, political reporter and former legislative director Lawrence O'Donell shared his experience of delivering 30 desks to a children's classroom in Africa...
Madonna Visits Millennium Village in Malawi, Sees Progress She Funded
Madonna today visited Gumulira, a Millennium Village of approximately 5000 people in rural central Malawi. Raising Malawi, an organization co-founded by Madonna, has been...
Malawi Farmers Adapt to Climate Change, Become Filmmakers to Teach Others (Video)
A journalist and CNN corporate sales executive quit her job to pursue a Masters thesis that would help Malawi farmers use video to teach...
Malawi Windmill Boy Talks of Worldwide Fame in New Book
The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a...
A Girl’s Journey from Dollar-a-day Malawi to Elite US Prep School
In an unlikely journey that most girls in Malawi can only dream of, a 16-year-old from a rural village spent the summer attending Phillips...
Free AIDS Drugs Save Lives of Quarter Million in Malawi
Malawi, which launched a free AIDS drug program five years ago with 5,000 initial beneficiaries, is now supplying 250,000 HIV positive citizens with the...
Malawi Youth Builds $16 Windmill to Power Village
"Malawi youth William Kamkwamba, without formal education or training, and having dropped out of school for lack of funds, constructed a windmill that could...
Madonna Helps AIDS Orphans in Malawi
Madonna is visiting the African state of Malawi where she is building an orphanage and child care centre and is involved in other initiatives...
Africa NGO Purchases World’s Largest Captive Rhino Population to Rewild 2,000 Across the Continent
A giant conservation NGO has purchased the largest privately-owned rhino herd on earth to rewild them in secret locations over the next 10 years.
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Good News in History, August 16
On this day in 2008 and 2009, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt broke the Olympic all-time record for the 100-meter sprint with a time of...
Good News in History, August 8
39 years ago today, Nawal El Moutawakel, the Amazigh-Moroccan athlete, became the first Moroccan, and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win...
Wimbledon Sports a Huge Smiling face – And it’s Made of Tennis Balls
Outside of Court No.1 at Wimbledon, artists turned a photo of a happy boy from Madagascar named Tefy into a giant mosaic made entirely...
Zimbabwe Youth at Berkeley Creates Free Online Coding Classes to Help Others Get Similar Scholarships
Having been inspired by an introductory coding and computer science class at Berkeley, a young man from Zimbabwe is replicating his experience for talented...
Ponds of Poop Turned into Clean Power for 16% of Pork Production in Australia
Ranchers in Australia are gradually allowing the "back end" of their animals to take care of their own back end when it comes to...
Elderly Black Women Celebrate High Court Victory For Equal Property Rights in Divorces, Averting Homelessness
Four brave women in South Africa have successfully overturned a set of antiquated marriage laws that denied women equal property rights.
Around 400,000 elderly black...
Inventor of Hand-Cranked Washing Machine is Distributing the Low-Cost Device to Refugees
The inventor of a hand-cranked washing machine has traveled to Iraq to distribute the low-cost device to refugees.
Navjot Sawhney created the 'Divya' to allow...