Malawi Inventor Lights Up His Whole Village Basically for Free-Starting With a Bicycle and a River
Colrerd Nkosi is a tinkerer who created an electric turbine out of junk for his Malawi village that uses the river to power up all the homes.
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500 Elephants Moved in Massive Relocation To A Safer Home
Conservationists have begun the largest ever man-made migration of elephants, moving 500 of the giant animals to a safer home in Malawi.
A Girl's Journey from Dollar-a-day Malawi to Elite US Prep School
In an unlikely journey that most girls in Malawi can only dream of, a 16-year-old from a rural village spent the summer attending Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She's one of 17 girls who go to secondary school in Malawi thanks to scholarships from Advancing Girls' Education in Africa (AGE), a small nonprofit organization founded four years ago.
AIDS is No Longer the Leading Cause of Death in Africa
Africa has witnessed a 24% decrease in AIDS/HIV related deaths since 2010 – and world health officials expect that number to continue falling.
World's First Malaria Vaccine to Help Prevent Deaths in 3 African Countries
Starting in 2018, this vaccine could save thousands of lives throughout Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi.
Malawi Celebrates Dramatic Drop in Child Mortality-280,000 Kids Saved
Despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Malawi has reduced its child mortality in the last decade to save 280,000 kids.
Former Fish Farmer Feeds a Million Children Every Day
A former fish farmer has cast a charitable net to 12 countries, with nutritious meals served to one million school children every weekday.
Two Million Used Pill Bottles From the U.S. Are Saving Lives in Africa
A charity is shipping two million used pill bottles from the U.S. to Malawi where a lack of any containers endangers health.
Malawi Farmers Adapt to Climate Change, Become Filmmakers to Teach Others (Video)
A journalist and CNN corporate sales executive quit her job to pursue a Masters thesis that would help Malawi farmers use video to teach neighboring villages about ways they have learned to adapt to climate change and preserve their livelihoods in the wake of new flooding.
Malawi Windmill Boy Talks of Worldwide Fame in New Book
The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
TV Viewers Rally to Lift 120,000 Malawi Kids Off the Ground
Six months ago, political reporter and former legislative director Lawrence O'Donell shared his experience of delivering 30 desks to a children's classroom in Africa with viewers of his MSNBC show The Last Word. Inspired by the video of Malawi kids sitting on dirt floors, donations poured in, more than 2.3 million dollars, allowing him to deliver an incredible 46,000 desks -- enough for every child in all four districts targeted.
Little Dresses Bring Hope to Malawi
Rachel O'Neill fell in love with the sweeping vistas of Malawi, Africa, but especially with the little girls, whose only clothing were the thread-bare dresses on their backs. Her original idea was to get a church group to sew dresses for her to bring back for the children. Eventually, word spread and dresses were sent from all fifty states, so many that it took teams of volunteers to sort them,
Malawi Chief Annuls Child Marriages, Sends Kids to School
A Malawi regional chief has annulled the marriages of 330 youth in her district and sent them back to school. "They must go to school."
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