Ethiopia has more than halved its child mortality rates since 1990 through campaigns to increase the number of health workers and clinics throughout the country, government and aid officials said on Friday. The number of health posts has surged to more than 9,000 in 2011 from a handful in 2004 with priority shifted towards food-insecure areas, UNICEF said.
For the past 12 years, the Akshaya Patra Foundation has served cooked food to nearly 1.4 million children in government schools across the India. And now, it has reached an important milestone serving its billionth meal in August.
Britain's double Olympic gold hero Mo Farah on Sunday helped launch a hunger summit with other athletes aimed at tackling malnutrition worldwide, held at Prime Minister David Cameron's home.
A youth orchestra in Paraguay whose players live in a town surrounded by a garbage landfill play instruments fashioned from scrap by the town elders. With the children inspired by a new passion and purpose, Beethoven never sounded so good.
The nation's largest environmental organization last week announced a new partnership with Sungevity to help families switch to solar easily and affordably. The win-win program will help consumers save money on electric bills and cut their carbon footprint with its Zero Down solar leasing program that gives $750 cash to both the homeowner and the Sierra Club.
The Waldo Canyon Fire, the most destructive in Colorado history, is under full containment Tuesday night.
Gross domestic product grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in fourth-quarter 2010, up from a 2.6 percent pace in the third quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis just reported.
When Israeli entrepreneur Amit Goffer was paralyzed in a car crash in 1997, he went on a quest to help other victims walk again. He invented robotic pants called the ReWalk machine that helps paralyzed patients stand and walk.
The South Sudan Democratic Movement declared a ceasefire yesterday, accepting an amnesty offered by President Salva Kiir last July when South Sudan gained independence from the north.
A newly discovered water source in Namibia could have a major impact on development in the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the BBC, estimates suggest the aquifer could supply the north of the country for 400 years at current rates of consumption.
On Friday, Feb. 15, more than 1,500 members of the NBA family, including the NBA All-Stars, joined in service projects throughout Houston, including the renovation of 5 homes, repairs and improvements to the Foster Place Elementary basketball court, and much needed yardscaping. Stars like Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons and Miami Heat's Chris Bosh and LeBron James talk about the impact of giving back during the 2013 NBA Cares All-Star Day of Service.
A team of Sioux Falls businesses is encouraging the entire community to remember the reason for the season, and help give the area's homeless a Merry Christmas. Just the outpouring of people in the community letting others know they care, says Tammie Denning of the Heartland House, which has 35 families in their transitional housing.
A team of Sioux Falls businesses is encouraging the entire community to remember the reason for the season, and help give the area's homeless a Merry Christmas. Just the outpouring of people in the community letting others know they care, says Tammie Denning of the Heartland House, which has 35 families in their transitional housing.
In three years, Rachel Wheeler raised more than $250,000, which helped build brand new earthquake-proof homes that have given shelter to 27 families that were still living in tent cities after Haiti's earthquake.
After Ted Williams, the homeless man who shot to fame this week on the wings of his golden voice, taped the Today show yesterday, he completed one of his first voiceover sessions for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. His first commercial was released on YouTube today.
After watching the devastation of neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina, Barnes and Noble CEO Leonard Riggio promised to give away new homes to 100 displaced families. At the dedication of the final home, a gospel choir sang Ain't No Mountain High Enough while 55-year-old Corliss Gaines' eyes swelled with tears.
A fund has been created and a guardian angel stepped forward for a 101-year-old Detroit woman displaced from her home by eviction. A longtime member of her church took in the wheelchair-bound woman and a contractor volunteered to build the wheelchair ramp needed at her new residence.
Buffalo, New York is becoming a national model, having reduced its chronically homeless population by 90 percent. Now the police are stepping in to help.
Volunteers in Honolulu are turning retired city buses into homeless shelters.
When this 5-year-old saw a homeless man outside an Alabama restaurant he implored his mom to buy him a meal–then brought everyone to tears by singing grace.
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