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  • Africa's Future is Clean Energy

    Wanjohi Kabukuru

    December 04, 2015 |

    African Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Oromia

    At the mention of “clean energy” in Africa, six countries stand out as beacons of the change to new, clean future energy sources on the continent, boosted by foreign investment.

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  • Amid Failure and Chaos, an Ebola Vaccine

    Tina Rosenberg

    November 24, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Liberia, Monrovia, Montserrado

    Westerners' fear of infection of Ebola motivated a vaccine in record time, but a preventive system put in place could ensure similar results for other viruses before they reach the same magnitude.

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  • The Brave Young Doctors of Sierra Leone

    Amy Maxmen

    September 16, 2015 |

    PBS NOVA |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    King’s Partnership and Partners in Health are outliers in the global health community in focusing on the mentorship of Sierra Leone’s next generation of doctors. The country has a profound need for more medical experts.

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  • Micro-insurance offers poor families in poorer countries protection from destitution

    Amy Yee

    September 01, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    All across Asia there is a growing market for micro-insurance, or targeted insurance policies that provide benefits to the poorest individuals and families. As of 2012, over 170 million people in Asia were using some form of micro-insurance, but there is so much more room to grow. Successful programs in India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and other Asian countries are providing health, life, and accident insurance.

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  • An Artificial Limb Can Bring Hope — But Who's Going To Make It?

    Amy Yee

    July 23, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    Prosthetics can change lives, but in some countries there aren't enough people trained to make the needed limbs, braces and splints. To address the shortage in Bangladesh, the Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed is partnering with Red Cross and international donors to offer free training for local clinicians, and free treatment for patients.

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  • Poverty solutions that actually work

    Lane Anderson

    June 24, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Researchers from Yale and MIT conducted a poverty study across various countries and found that aid can relieve poverty if it is comprehensive and gives people a productive asset.

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  • New data reveals which approach to helping the poor actually works

    Dean Karlan

    June 17, 2015 |

    Reuters |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Korom

    For years, policymakers have debated different approaches to helping the poor , but new data offers resounding evidence for a strategy that works: an approach known as a “Graduation” program. This method offers participants a “productive asset” to generate income with training on how to use it, as well as the resources (such as healthcare, food, loans, and coaching) to maintain the asset while building a pathway out of poverty.

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  • Upward Mobility for the World's Destitute

    Tina Rosenberg

    May 15, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Rangpur, Rajshahi Division

    Though poverty rates are dropping worldwide, the 'ultrapoor' tend to stay where they are. BRAC works to break the poverty cycle by donating money-making assets mixed with cash and food grants.

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  • Refugee camp in Nepal adopts eco ethos

    Seán Dagan Wood

    March 13, 2015 |

    Positive.News |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Damak

    A Bhutanese refugee camp in Damak, Nepal is giving its displaced inhabitants a brighter future thanks to green investment through sustainable, eco-friendly projects that respond to refugees needs.

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  • Blood transfusions show early promise as possible Ebola cure

    Amy Maxmen

    February 16, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    As trials on blood and plasma progress, researchers ask if they might have happened sooner. In any case, the blood transfusions show early success.

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