In some African countries, a lack of reliable electricity is to blame for hundreds of deaths each year during childbirth. Dr. Laura Stachel witnessed this tragic truth during a trip to Nigeria five years ago and with the help of her husband, a solar energy educator, started delivering a solution: solar energy in a suitcase.
Camfed International hopes to create a self-perpetuating cycle by helping many thousands of children and women a year in Zambia by paying schooling costs, funding training and providing grants or loans to start businesses
To combat excessive radiation levels in the agricultural regions surrounding the Fukashima nuclear plant, monks at a Japanese Buddhist temple began growing and distributing sunflowers, which are known to absorb radiation. Hundreds of thousands of flowers are now in bloom, spurring deeper connections between people in Fukushima and the rest of the country.
Instead of getting abuse from state teachers whose pensions were cut, Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island's treasurer, who had quarterbacked the major reform, is receiving praise for saving the system from certain calamity. She is being called a fiscal Hero.
A video from New Hampshire's primary day shows the truth– that politically active people (regardless of ideology) have more in common than people think.
Despite the global economic downturn, the world is still on track to meet a key U.N. goal of halving the number of people living on less than $1 a day by 2015, according a UN report. Other Millenium Goals are not similarly on track, so UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created a star-powered committee that will try to spark progress against all eight welfare problems named in the goals.
Muhammad Yunus gets people out of poverty with the help of small loan-interest loans. The Nobel Laureate announced that his banking organization, the Grameen Bank is set to expand in America and elsewhere.
Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal teamed up with a cop to play basketball with neighborhood kids after admiring his treatment of them in a viral video.
For the first time since 1991, the United States is officially recognizing the government of Somalia, a country in chaos since the 1990's overrun by warlords. President Hassan Sheikh was welcomed at the State Department in Washington, DC for an official ceremony with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had made securing Somalia a personal priority of her four years in office.
This 77-yr-old grandmother is making her neighborhood a better place because she doesn't back down from trouble.
Women in Saudi Arabia will be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah announced yesterday. He also will appoint women to the all-male national advisory council.
Picking up trash is a snap–and a tap–for Milwaukee's ‘Dancing Litter Guy'
Last week, five former Soviet republics committed themselves to never acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, or testing nuclear weapons by signing a treaty to create a Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone.
The world has become dramatically more peaceful since 1992, according to the Human Security Report. The number of wars, coup d'etats, and acts of genocide has declined by 40 percent. Weapons sales between countries have dropped 33 percent during the same time, and the number of refugees has diminished by 45 percent.
There is a striking correlation between violence and nutrients in the diet. A clinical trial at the US government's National Institutes for Health and earlier studies involving people with violent records found that those given supplements have been able for the first time to control their anger and aggression.
The UK paper, The Independent donated half of all its revenues yesterday to fight AIDS in Africa, and featured U2's Bono as guest editor.
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 Maoist rebels in Nepal are ready for peace talks with the new governmentinstalled after the collapse of the monarchy when riots forced the king to reinstall a parliament and cited this as a historic moment
Nepal's new Cabinet on Wednesday matched communist rebels' cease-fire declaration and said it would drop terrorism chargesagainst them in an effort to end a decade-old insurgency that has killed 13,000 people.
Maoist rebels in Nepal declared a unilateral three-month cease-fire in response to recent democratic moves by the king to reinstate parliament.
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