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Beaming Education From Space to World’s Poorest, Remote Places

A company wants to build virtual libraries in places the Internet doesn’t reach by blanketing the earth with data beamed from satellites. More than four...

Former Fish Farmer Feeds a Million Children Every Day

In a modern-day tale of feeding the multitudes, a former fish farmer is serving free, nutritious meals to a million school kids around the...
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Students Design Aquarium Pumps to Save Babies’ Lives

Babies are surviving in the poorest parts of Africa thanks to the ingenuity of students in a Rice University design class. Faced with the...
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LEGO Donates $3 Million to Educate Refugee Children

The LEGO Foundation presented a $3 million donation to the UN refugee agency on Friday to help improve access to quality primary school education...
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Ten Most Generous Celebrities Selected by ‘Why I Give’

Giving is not about riches. Many people, who are wealthy with millions, if not billions, of dollars in bank accounts, use their money for...
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$80M Partnership Announced to Save Africa’s Elephants

Conservation groups announced yesterday a three-year $80 million Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action that will bring together NGOs and governments to stop the...
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New Hospital in Haiti is Fully Powered by 1,800 Solar Panels

Over the past 25 years Partners In Health (PIH) has been working to bring the benefits of modern medical science to poor residents who...
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Don’t Look Now, but Sub-Saharan Africa is Booming

Since 2003, growth has been skyrocketing in sub-Saharan Africa, fueled mostly by the rise of cellphones. It’s a glorious wave of change, sweeping across...
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Windmill Boy on Jon Stewart (Video)

The shy boy from Malawi, William Kamkwamba, who became a global sensation after he taught himself to build a windmill to power his...
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Global Child Mortality Continues to Drop

UNICEF this week released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in 2008....
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Angola Puts Faith in Farming

Angola's farming sector could finally resolve what its oil and diamond exports have for years failed to do: lift millions of Angolans out...
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CNN to Give $100,000 to ‘Hero’ on Holiday Special

This year's Top 10 CNN Heroes were announced last week. Each will receive $25,000 and be honored during a televised All-Star Tribute airing on...
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African School Succeeds Against the Odds

"With 1,531 students, six classrooms, no running water and no light bulbs, this Malawi school has one of the best academic records by far,...

Child Mortality Falls to Record Low Worldwide

Thanks mainly to campaigns to combat measles and malaria and promote breast-feeding, child deaths worldwide have reached a record low, falling below 10 million...

The True Angel of Africa

Sonia Waters has "a salutary lesson for anyone who has felt helpless in the face of extreme poverty and deprivation, who feels the problem...
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China, India Once Food Aid Recipients, Now Food Donors

In the same year it stopped receiving global food aid, China emerged as the world's third largest food donor. According to a report by...