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Building a Bridge to Save Lives
The Nithi River used to claim as many as 50 lives each year near the Kenyan villages of Kajuki and Mutino. But a...
More than 100 Million of the World’s Poorest Have Received Microloan
More than 106 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing a goal set ten years earlier, according to...
Signs of Hope for Ethiopia’s Children
Amid the hardship facing Ethiopia's children, there are signs that conditions may be improving and that children's lives are changing for the better. According...
Fast Food Operator Kicks In $80 Million to Help Feed Schoolchildren
Lunches for over 200 million hungry schoolchildren in the developing world will be delivered, thanks to a commitment of $80 million by leading restaurant...
Unilever Employees Fund Pakistan Food Program With Payroll Donations
A joint venture launched yesterday with the United Nations food agency will allow the employees of industrial giant Unilever to pledge a percentage of...
London Financier Gives Half Billion Pounds to Charity
"A SUPER-RICH City financier has given nearly HALF-A-BILLION pounds to charity — the largest ever single donation by a Briton — to help poor...
UN Increases Food Aid by $1.2 Billion
The UN World Food Program said today it will provide $1.2 billion in additional food aid in the 62 countries hit hardest by the...
Ohio Businessman Brings 22 Tons of Chicken to Feed the Hungry
A successful businessman wanted to do something meaningful to help hungry people in Northern Ohio. Utilizing his industry contacts, his company purchased over 25,000...
UN Welcomes Bush’s Call for $770M in Global Food Aid
The UN World Food Program has thanked President Bush “for his urgent call to action to combat the advance of hunger among the world’s...
Quarter Million People Fed Through Playing of Internet Game
You gotta try the new Internet game in which you choose the correct definition of a word -- the words keep getting harder,...
Ethiopian Farmers Boosted By Improved Seed
Five years ago, Wegene Abebe was just another local peasant eking out a living in Tijo, 220km southeast of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa;...
Engineers Without Borders “Beat the Crap Out of Poverty”
This week, Engineers Without Borders held its third annual Beat the Crap Out of Poverty event at Memorial University. For a small...
Hardy Plant Hailed as Fuel Source of the Future
"It's been described as the antidote that will save humanity from itself. The manna to our hunger for fuel, the miracle pill to our...
Beyoncé Concerts Sponsor Food Drives in Five Cities
Pop singer Beyoncé is encouraging her fans to bring non-perishable food items to a pre-concert food drive in Los Angeles on September 2, as...
Sheryl Crow and Son Get Behind UN Food Agency
Sheryl Crow, the American singer-songwriter, has become the latest star to sit in a photo shoot with her new baby in exchange for a...
Mankind Has Never Been Healthier, Wealthier or Freer. Surprised?
Environmentalists and globalization foes are united in their fear that greater population and consumption of energy, materials, and chemicals accompanying economic growth, technological change...
Recognizing People Who Do The Right Thing
Over the last five years or so there has been an incredible amount of giving by more and more people, whether it's contributing money...
Diners Pay What They Can Afford at One World Cafe
The owners of the all-natural One World Cafe in Salt Lake City have adopted a "pay what you can" philosophy doing their part to...
Film Review: Beyond the Call, a Double-Helping of Humanitarian Adventure
Opening in theatrical release this week, Beyond the Call is an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, in which three middle-aged men, former soldiers,...
Blessed by a Burger
Many years ago during the very first days I had quit drinking, I joined a support group for help. They initially suggested that I...