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Teaching AIDS Orphans to Farm and Help Themselves
(IRIN) - Twelve-year-old Nhlanhla Matsebula, one of Swaziland’s growing number of children orphaned by AIDS, has good reason to feel proud. He has mastered...
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...
Virginia Tech Shooting: Crisis Charity Offers Tips, Tools to Deal with Aftermath
Following the fatal shooting of dozens of students at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, the national children's crisis charity KidsPeace is issuing expert tips...
School Enrollment Rates Double in Southern Sudan
The number of students enrolled in school in southern Sudan has more than doubled since the end of the long-running civil war two years...
$500 Million Pledge to Reverse Childhood Obesity in U.S.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today announced it will commit at least $500 million over the next five years to tackle childhood obesity. The...
Free Online University Lectures Offer Eclectic Mix
As we alerted you last year, major Ivy league universities have begun offering lectures — and whole courses — on the Internet for free....
Five Ways the United Nations is Saving People and the Planet
In 1997, the owner of Cable News Network, Ted Turner, shocked the world when he handed over a billion dollars to the United Nations....
Singer Sarah McLachlan Diverts Video Costs to World’s Poor
Singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan produced the first music video that donates the normal cost of production to people around the world who need it most...
Improvisation Boosts Reading in Poor Inner City School
Rachel Farmer is a fourth-grade teacher in Brooklyn who defies the stereotype of the exhausted teacher, run down by poor inner-city schools. Instead of...
Oil Firm Offers to Pay College Tuition for All Students in Town for 20 Years
Executives of Murphy Oil Corporation thrilled their hometown of El Dorado, Arkansas when they announced to students in a packed gymnasium their intention to...
Free Secondary Education Unveiled in Uganda
KAMPALA- Uganda has begun implementing a free universal secondary education program in 700 public and 280 private schools in the first phase of a...
Teen Drug Use Declines by 23 Percent in Five Years
Reality must be improving for young people across the U.S. Teen drug use has declined by 23 percent since 2001, with reductions in the...
McDonald’s Forced Out for Lack of Business in Healthy Town
While Britain may be often maligned for its cuisine, or lack thereof, we portly Americans could learn a lesson from the good folks in...
New 2007 Laws Protect Consumers from ID Theft and Citizens’ Rights
State Lawmakers have been busy and their new laws for 2007 are mostly good news for consumers, common citizens and people struggling to make...
Gratitude Comes Through Service
Part 5 in our series on gratitude: The I in gratitude represents involvement in our community. Involvement shows that we are grateful for what...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: 8) Wars On the Wane Worldwide
8) Wars On the Wane Worldwide as Reconciliation Unites Divisions • The world has become dramatically more peaceful since 1992, according to...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: 2) Generosity Surges
2) Billionaire Warren Buffett Leading New Wave of Generosity with Largest Donation Ever Warren Buffett, the world's second richest man donated $37...
Top Ten Good News of 2006!
With casualties in Iraq reaching record numbers, the war in Lebanon punctuating the continuing crises in the Middle East and the ongoing slaughter in...
Volunteering Reaches 30-Year High in U.S.
The percentage of Americans volunteering has reached a 30-year high says a new study, due in part to a boom in teens' dedication to...
Developers Add Grass to Baltimore Playgrounds
Baltimore had a sensational new idea to provide green areas for local kids in exchange for developers adding more asphalt in other areas of...