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Teaching Kids to Read From the Back of a Donkey (Video)

A man toting 120 books while riding a stubborn donkey is a thrilling sight for hundreds of children in the rural villages of Colombia. Luis Soriano is a man with a mission to save rural children from illiteracy.

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Oprah Educates Girls in Africa Despite Struggles to "Get It Right"

Nothing in Oprah Winfrey's life has made her prouder than creating her school for girls in Henley-on-Klip, South Africa. And nothing, she says, has given her more headaches.

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The Wizards' Wizard: A Tribute to Generosity

In the last few years, Washington's great sports impresario and philanthropist suffered from a rare brain disease that robbed him of everything but his burning love of life and sports and his burning desire to help sick children and the poor in Washington and around the world. When he saw children in need, his generosity was boundless.

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Inspired by Opening a Page in a Book, Man Drills for Water in Maasai Village

A Harley-riding Wisconsin senior has been given the National Franciscan Peace Award for 2009, an honor previously given to Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II. Don Ryder works as the Wausau city safety director, but it is his work on a life-saving water project in drought-ridden Africa that earned him the prize.

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Award Winners Changing the World Through Tech

The Tech Awards is an international program honoring innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. This year's winners received their awards at a Gala yesterday in San Jose, CA.

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Pushcart Educator for the Poor Wins CNN Hero of the Year

(CNN) — Efren Peñaflorida, who started a "pushcart classroom" in the Philippines to provide an alternative to gang membership and bring education to poor children who are scavenging in landfills, has been named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year. CNN's Anderson Cooper unveiled Peñaflorida as the winner of the most online votes at the […]

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Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life

Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas during the 1950s. He didn't care much for high school. One day during his senior year, he cut class — and wandered into the school library. He stumbled onto a book written by African-American author Frank Yerby. And the discovery changed the life of a teenage boy who was, in Neal's memory, "a rather troubled high school senior."

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Around the World in 30 Days - For a Cause

A young Chicago medical school gradute is travelling to five countries in 30 days with a big mission -- to raise money for a school in Zambia that his parents founded for orphaned and abandoned children.