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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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 A report
from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's
Fund says the world is on track to meet or even exceed the
drinking-water target of the Millennium Development Goals, which aims
to cut in half the number of people who do not have access to good
water.
87 percent of the world's population or
approximately 5.9 billion people are using safe drinking-water
sources, according to the new WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program report, "Progress on Sanitation and Drinking - 2010 Update," released yesterday.
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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
 Two young women, American University Law School graduates, launched a Washington, DC program where volunteers are mentoring juveniles, trying to keep them from returning to jail in the future.
The two women had bonded over an unconventional vision: to help young men in jail leave Washington’s juvenile justice system and find their way to productive, fulfilling lives.
Five years later, Mentoring Today now has a solid track record, inspiring mentors to donate more than 1,800 volunteer hours, which have helped more than 30 young men to remake their lives. Last year, the nonprofit raised more than $350,000 from donors and grantmakers to fund its services.
(READ the story at CS Monitor)
Brandon graduated HS after his mentoring and enrolled in college
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
 UNICEF is helping to build child-friendly schools in Niger, where school attendance rates are among the lowest in the world and just 31% of girls become students.
Partnering with IKEA home furnishing stores, which over the 2009 holiday raised $6 million in its Soft Toy Drive to provide schools supplies, UNICEF delivered school materials, teacher training and water and sanitation facilities to the students here. The result is a new school that has become the heart of a community and part of the exciting trend of increasing access to education in this West African nation.
UNICEF is transforming not only education, but age-old practices as well, like the forced marriages of young girls before they are 18.
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
 A 67-year-old country musician from Montana said Tuesday he had written a goodbye letter and was preparing himself for death when an Idaho couple stumbled upon his car, stuck on a remote mountain road for four days. He was weak and losing hope when a four-wheel-drive vehicle arrived.
(READ the Story at AP.org)
Thanks to Sienna S. for sending the link!
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
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 Jacquelin Marin has no running hot water at home. For a while, she had no real home at all. But soon she'll have both, with the sun heating water for her showers.
Marin and her neighbors are part of a pilot program to install solar water heaters in the houses of low-income families. For Chile—a country with stark economic inequality and few fossil fuels—it's a way to help the poor while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(READ the story in GlobalPost.com)
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