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The Tupperware Effect: Can Direct Sales Help Women Living in Poverty Throughout the World?
The presence of Tupperware and Avon in poor nations have provided a much-needed chance for women to gain economic independence. While direct sales...
Record-Breaking 173 Million People Take Stand With UN Against Poverty
Smashing a Guinness World Record, more than 173 million people around the world joined forces with the United Nations to call on global...
Good News: Child Poverty Rate Still Dropping
Many local economists and child welfare advocates were puzzled this week when new census data came out showing a 3 percentage-point drop in...
Ending Poverty Starts in the Womb (w/ Video)
After years of government and faith-based programs to give people a hand up, there is one man who may have found a "cure"...
Anti-Poverty Summit Raises $16 Billion- $3 Billion for Malaria (with Video)
Despite current financial woes, a UN summit called to rev up the war on global poverty raised a total of roughly 16 billion dollars,...
Britain offers Ethiopia $260 mln to fight poverty
Britain said on Thursday it will give Ethiopia 133 million pounds (2.5 billion birr) this year to help the Horn of Africa country try...
Mom Traded Poverty and Despair for Real Success
"A mother of three was at rock bottom -- jobless, no prospects for work and with no money to feed her young kids. But...
Google Commits $25M Toward Global Warming, Poverty, and Disease
Google's philanthropic arm on Thursday said it is taking aim at global warming, poverty, and pandemics with millions in cash and the Internet giant's...
In Africa, a Papercraft Path Out of Poverty
Poor Ugandan women who were living on the streets begging for food, have now turned their lives around after joining BeadForLife, a small Colorado-based...
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...
Houses Built on Plastic Bottles Combat Poverty, and Litter (Video)
A house made of littered plastic bottles filled with sand and reinforced with concrete has given a Bolivian family a much-needed sturdy dwelling, while...
Islamic Development Bank Launches $10 Billion Poverty Fund
The Islamic Development Bank launched a multi-billion-dollar Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development, which aims at combatting poverty and its causes in member Islamic countries...
Asian Poverty Reduction at 95%
In 1990 there were 500 million people living in poverty in East Asia and the Pacific region. That number is now under 200 million,...
De Beers to Help Reduce Poverty for Diamond Miners
Last Friday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Jonathan Oppenheimer, Director of De Beers, and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete announced a $2...
Soros Invests $50M to Lift African Villages From Poverty
US financier George Soros is to invest $50 million in a development project that aims to show how targeted investment can end extreme poverty...
How a $27 Loan Transforms a Village from Poverty to Self-Sufficiency
"When I gave them that money, I didn't think much about it at that time. But the villagers' excitement -- they looked at me...
Bolivia Launches Major New Deal Poverty Program
The new government of Bolivia has announced a sweeping plan to reduce poverty and create employment. Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, will...
Saving Wildlife Also Helps Reduce Poverty
A World Wildlife Fund report this week says that efforts to save pandas and tigers and gorillas can also reduce poverty and improve the...
Forest Restoration Program Alleviates Poverty
The Cauto River, Cuba's longest, was ravaged by a five-year drought, and its forests were destroyed for firewood. River banks crumbled, damaging the river’s...
Good News in History, May 3
71 years ago today, two men were rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell...