Lesotho's single largest employer, the textile industry, has made a remarkable comeback, setting an example for the region and giving thousands back their jobs. 'All the factories that were closed have been reopened.
The Ethiopian desert, full of drought and famine just a generation ago, is turning green with crops.
Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon just returned from a week-long trip in Africa working with the Rethink Refugees foundation to find better ways to help people in Congo. Gordon is no stranger to charity work. He is involved in hunger campaigns in the US, and his foundation funds pediatric cancer and his own children's hospital, and has in six years exceeded $1 million in annual contributions.
Los Angeles artist Mary Beth Heffernan is the rare person who decided to actually try to solve a problem half way around the world.
A Congo Republic rain forest full of rare animals and trees, one of the most pristine left in Africa, will be protected from all logging thanks to the voluntary actions of a timber company to forfeit its harvesting rights.
A $150 million global fund has been launched to provide protection for environmental “hot spots†that contain the most dense array of plant and animal biodiversity around the planet.
Some good came out of the flooding that swept through Mozambique in 2000. At the same time as marooned Mozambicans on high ground were being rescued by soldiers in helicopters, historical stereotypes were being erased and the hated enemy was fast becoming a hero.
At the UN, the president of China pledged $1bil to peace and $12bil across the world to end poverty and vowed to cancel debt of poor nations.
The Pavement Bookworm who turned his life around by selling books instead of begging has now written a book about his life.
He set out on his own in 2009 when he took the 8,000-mile flight from Kenya to Maryland as a foreign exchange student. He had no running experience before coming to the US, but now owns the fastest 1,600 time in the state and has secured a college scholarship. But his long goal is to return to his village that has no electricity or running water and teach them to read.
What follows is a story of how my children and I weathered the hardships and handicaps of single parenting to beat the odds.
Meeting Christopher Ategeka today, one would never guess this young Berkeley graduate, who was named one of Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 social entrepreneurs, grew up an orphan caring for his five siblings in a dirt-walled hut in rural Uganda—and was in his teens before he owned his first pair of shoes.
A charity is shipping two million used pill bottles from the U.S. to Malawi where a lack of any containers endangers health.
Nigerian army troops have freed more than 800 hostages held by Boko Haram, the terrorist militant group.
Ten years ago, 12 boys from a Liberian choir visited the United States to raise money for their orphanage, and touched the hearts of a North Carolina town. Forty-five boys from that orphanage have since been adopted and are now living what they only dreamed a decade ago.
A retired Menlo Park math teacher completed her seventh summer volunteering to teach math at a high school for girls in Africa -- a school that she raised more than $1 million to build.
In the largely improvised scramble to set up an alternative to leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime, the Libyan rebels are leaning heavily on Ali Tarhouni, a University of Washington economics professor who abruptly left his family and students to join an uncertain revolution. As finance minister, he even jumped on a fishing boat recently to personally deliver salary money to the besieged city of Misrata in the Gadhafi-controlled west.
On the 17th anniversary marking the start of the Rwandan genocide, comes the story of Carl Wilkens -- the only American to stay in the country, remaining behind to protect Tutsi friends.
Growing up in the Kenyan slums, Peninah was surrounded by drugs, prostitution and dire poverty. Peninah turned to education as her lifeline, walking nine miles to attend school every day, and learning basketball within one month to secure a scholarship to college. Now she created Safe Spaces to help other girls.
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