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Old Cell Phones Support Health Care in Malawi: Text Messages Reach Remote Patients and Revolutionize Healthcare

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Mobile Phones Aid Health Care Delivery Worldwide: Text Messages Inform on HIV/AIDS and Help Improve Maternal Health

In: Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Cell Phone Applications Help Farmers in Uganda: Africa's Growing Mobile Phone Market Fights Poverty With Information

In: Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

"Come Clean 4 Congo" YouTube Contest Winner: Rap Video on Connection between "Conflict Minerals" and Cell Phones

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

September is National Hunger Action Month: Foodbanks Across America Urge Citizens to Help Fight Hunger

In: World Hunger

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Successful HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care in Haiti: Global Fund to Fight AIDS Provides Economic Support for HIV Patients

In: Poverty/World Development (general)

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Congo "Conflict Minerals" Fuel Brutal Civil War: Human Rights Groups Raise Awareness About Illegal Trade in Congo War

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Quotes by Paul Farmer on Health Care: How is Adequate Medical Care a Basic Human Right?

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Review of Six Months in Sudan by James Maskalyk: Volunteering for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a War-Torn Village

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Doctors Without Borders Aids Women in the Congo: The World Pays Little Attention to Crisis in War-Torn Eastern Congo

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Heifer Teaches Sustainable Agriculture in Poland: Heifer's Mission of Ending Hunger and Poverty is Based on Education

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Drought in Iraq Threatens Grain and Rice Harvest: Low Water in Euphrates Due To Turkey's and Syria's Water Policies

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Restoring Water and Sanitation Services in Iraq: UNICEF Reopens Office in Baghdad Six Years After Conflict Began

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Microfinance in U.S. Helps Small Businesses Grow: Kiva Launches Online Microlending to Borrowers in the United States

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Lack of Safe Water Inspires "Project Well Done": Over a Billion People Today Have No Access to Safe Drinking Water

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Gretchen Peters Examines Afghan Drug Trade: Seeds Of Terror, How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

In: Poverty/World Development (general)

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Paul Farmer and Partners in Health in Rwanda: PIH Offers Medical Care, Builds Infrastructure and Social Services

In: Anti-Poverty Activism

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Paul Farmer's Hospital in Haiti, Zanmi Lasante: "Partners In Health" Provides Preferential Health Care for the Poor

In: Anti-Poverty Activism

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

How Can the Taliban Be Defeated in Afghanistan? Fighting the Taliban Without Alienating the People in Afghanistan

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Common Wealth by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs: Economics for a Crowded Planet.

In: Poverty/World Development (general)

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

FINCA Microloans Help Development In Afghanistan: Life-Changing Microloans Instrumental in Fighting Extremism

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Our Opportunity to End Poverty With Achievable, Time-Bound Targets

In: Poverty/World Development (general)

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

The End of Poverty by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs: Eliminate Extreme Poverty by the Year 2025 With Clinical Economics

In: World Development

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

CARE is Fighting Poverty and World Hunger: Empowering Girls and Women. Watch "A Powerful Noise" on March 5

In: Development Agencies

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Global Finance Crisis Increases Global Hunger: Meeting the Millennium Development Goal of Reducing Hunger is Hard

In: World Hunger

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Every Six Seconds A Child Dies Of Hunger: Hunger Is Still The Number One Risk To Health Worldwide

In: World Hunger

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Microfinance Movement Grows at Impressive Rate: Success of Microloans Stands in Contrast to Financial Turmoil

In: Poverty/World Development (general)

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Non-Profit Kiva Offers Online Microfinance: Microloans to Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Ease Poverty

In: Poverty/World Development (general)

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Creating a World Without Poverty: Dr. Muhammad Yunus on Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

In: Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

"World of Good", Non-Profit and Social Business: Socially Responsible, Eco-friendly Gifts, Fair Trade and Fair Wages

In: Anti-Poverty Activism

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

John Wood Founder of Room To Read: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World. Educate the World's Children.

In: Anti-Poverty Activism

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School At A Time

In: War & Poverty

By: Feature Writer Christine Welter

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