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Socialite’s School Brings Hope To Brazilian Slum
Poverty and violence are part of every day life for children living in Brazil's slums. But a Rio de Janeiro socialite is fighting...
Black Friday Numbers – Good News for Charities? World Vision Gift Giving Up 30 Percent
The faltering U.S. economy is again forcing many U.S. adults to cut back on holiday gift spending this year, but one leading U.S. charity...
Award Winners Changing the World Through Tech
The Tech Awards is an international program honoring innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. This year's winners received...
Former Nun Unites All Religions with a Charter for Compassion
In 2008, Karen Armstrong, author of many books on world religions, had a dream. That dream was to bring together all of the...
Solar Power Rescues Lebanon Schools from Frequent Black-outs
With Lebanon’s chronic power shortages, classes at the Rajam Issa public school are often plunged into darkness during the winter.
In the remote northeastern district...
Gates Gives $120 million to Help Poor Farmers Boost Output
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will donate a total of $120 million in a bid to boost agricultural production, marketing...
Texas Urban Schools Win $1 Million Education Prize for Third Year
The Aldine Independent School District outside Houston has won the 2009 Broad Prize for Urban Education, the largest education award in the country, and...
Artist Paints Homeless to Lift Homeless (w/ Video)
Artist David Anthony Hummer's paintings are collected worldwide but his real passion is blossoming back in his hometown of Wausau, Wisconsin among the...
Giving 300,000 Birthday Smiles
Imagine a child who watches a friend receiving a pile of presents from his parents, but then remembers that his own family is too...
Nobel Laureate Announces Growth of Micro-Loan Program
Global recognition including the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom has not kept Muhammad Yunus from his main goal - helping...
Soros Gives $35 Million to New York Children for School Supplies
850,000 New York children in low-income families will receive $200 each for back to school supplies from wealthy financier George Soros. Soros and his...
Obama Names Medal of Freedom Winners: Kennedy, Poitier, Hawking, 13 Others
President Obama on Thursday named the 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. America’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom is...
Make An Imprint on Mandela Day Saturday (Celebrity Video)
South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, spent 67 years making the world a better place, starting with nothing more than a prison uniform and...
G8 Pledge of $20B to Feed the Hungry also Promotes Peace and Stability
The annual G8 meeting, which wrapped up last week, has yielded pledges of $20 billion over three years to feed the hungry and mobilize...
Child Deaths Worldwide Drop by 28 Percent Over Seven Years
Deaths of children under five years of age have plummeted by almost one third since 1990, the United Nations World Health Organization said yesterday....
Angola Puts Faith in Farming
Angola's farming sector could finally resolve what its oil and diamond exports have for years failed to do: lift millions of Angolans out...
Maya Nut Changes Lives While Aiding the Rain Forest
Erika Vohman is improving the lives of women in poverty in Central America by teaching them about their native Maya nut, a nutrient-rich seed...
G-20 Backs $1Trillion Boost For Struggling Nations
President Obama emerged from the global summit of G20 leaders with an agreement to provide funding for $1 trillion in additional loans and...
The Front Line of Health Reform: Teaching Parents How to Treat Their Own Kids
The innovative program that provides a dose of hands-on health care training, boosting parents’ ability to care for common childhood ailments at home while...
More than 100 Million of the World’s Poorest Have Received Microloan
More than 106 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing a goal set ten years earlier, according to...