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NEW YORK - A stern elderly teacher enforces her will on an unruly class. A boisterous playground is filled with kids ready to play and learn. A gleefully executed science project that culminates in a baking soda induced explosion. A young student recites a civics lesson, expounding on the...
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For the people of Turkana, a district in Kenya hit hard by the drought that has engulfed the Horn of Africa for much of this year, fresh water is a rarity. The arid landscape has forced men, women, and children into the full time job of digging for water and carrying it long distances to be used...
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A stern elderly teacher enforces her will on an unruly class. A boisterous playground is filled with kids ready to play and learn. A gleefully executed science project that culminates in a baking soda induced explosion. A young student recites a civics lesson, expounding on the universal freedoms...
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NEW YORK – Providing the world’s poorest of the poor with light is a difficult task. Setting up power lines, developing a grid, and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support electricity is hard even in rich countries; in the slums of the Global South, it can appear nearly impossible. A...
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We are seeing a changing development landscape with successful development experiences and lessons learnt increasingly being shared across the Global South, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Associate Administrator Rebeca Grynspan said at the opening of the Society for International Development...
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NEW YORK – In a highly globalized world, an economic hiccup in one nation has the potential for wide reaching and lasting implications in other nations. If that nation happens to be the United States of America, the chances of this ripple effect go from possibility to near certainty.
Take, for...
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NEW YORK- Movirtu, a telecommunications and technology firm, is undertaking a United Nations-backed initiative to provide impoverished people in Africa and South Asia with access to low cost mobile phone numbers.
Rather than share a single phone number with family and community members, those...
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NEW YORK – United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden has announced that the famine in Somalia had spread to three more regions, including the nation’s capital city, Mogadishu.
“The Afgooye corridor, the capital, Mogadishu, and Middle Shabelle, have slipped into famine,”...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Good news from Washington is rare these days. The U.S. capital has been more commonly associated with political bickering and driving the global economy to verge of Armageddon over the last month than it has been with new initiatives for development. Fortunately, the Society for...
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It is a sad reality that in many developing countries, education is not an option for children. A lack of teachers, school supplies, or even schools themselves bars children all over the world from this basic right that children in wealthy countries take for granted. But an even sadder reality is...