"ViewChange: One Good Idea" presents four stories about individuals and organizations who are taking on the biggest global challenges:
India's Free Lunch Since 2001, all Indian primary schools have provided pupils with a free midday meal. Since then, truancy rates have dropped and child health is soaring.
Project Peanut Butter In Malawi, children with malnutrition are being given a radical new treatment that is cheap and very effective: fortified peanut butter. Best of all, mothers can administer the ready-to-use food at home, eliminating the need for hospital stays.
Banking on Change J.S. Parthibhan is a bank manager with a difference: he's interested in people, not numbers. Through micro loans, he's helping villagers in rural areas of India develop a sense of entrepreneurship and self-respect.
Vidiyal Village women in Tamil Nadu are using mobile phones and computer technology in innovative ways to benefit their agriculture-based businesses.
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...Deputy Executive Director. "By attacking malnutrition, we act directly on development priorities: the fight against poverty, for education and for equality. Less than two years before the d…
...infrastructure in many parts of the developing world, there are successful ventures enabled by mobile technology. The report details some of the cases which illustrate emerging possibilitie…
...Heretic” bravely challenges the hype of microfinance loans as a solution to poverty. Author of “Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic,” Hugh Sinclair dares to challenge the idea that microf…
...of age continues to be among the highest in the world. Rates of malnutrition among India's children are almost five times more than in China, and twice those in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly h…
...in recent decades, though much less so in Africa. UNICEF estimates that chronic child malnutrition costs African countries a staggering $25 billion a year in loss of productivity and health…
...rotavirus leads to the death of 450,000 children worldwide every year. India is the worst affected, with an estimated 98,000 deaths a year. Even if children don’t die, the diarrheal illness…
...sweetpotato (OFSP)’. While maize is the staple food in Malawi - a landlocked country with high poverty and malnutrition rates - the crop has become unreliable as the harvests have suffered …
...structures and institutions... Premium Evaluation Of Microfinance And Women Empowerment: Case Study On Grameen Bank In Northern Bangladesh the beneficiaries and the benefits of microfinance…
...U.S., it has been well-documented to help fight poverty from in Africa, India, Haiti and other regions suffering from malnutrition. “As climate change makes rainfall increasingly unpredicta…
...final frontier of the global quest to end extreme poverty. Although fast-growing cities have gained attention for their role in fighting poverty, including in the World Bank’s latest Global…
...every day. Today, our product is about 90% made in Africa and we have a target to reach 100% by end of next year. The main challenge is that our Africa industrial fabric is not made for hig…
...effort, we can claim a small victory: funding for poverty-focused development assistance is relatively unchanged from the previous year -- with a slight increase to cover development assist…
...dollars for Partners in Mission, which is focusing on Malawi, Africa, in 2013. The Salvation Armyâs Partners in Mission is a fundraising campaign that supports communities around the world …
...economy helps overcome the problems of chronic poverty, ignorance and disease. Lenin said that the health problems, malnutrition and poverty have spread throughout the weaver community. The…
...“The other African countries expect [South Africa] to provide leadership. If we don’t show that we are going to become a knowledge-based society, they are going to give up as well,” he says…
...before a grand jury comprising professionals from Africa and India at the University of the Witwatersrand. While the Jorsey Ashbel Farms team was represented by Blessing Oritseweyinmi, the …
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