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A local health worker from Ethiopia, Aster has dedicated her life to ensuring the health of mothers and children in her community. She traverses over seven miles daily on foot, and has saved countless lives along the way.

Team Up South Africa

The Grassroot Project is a Washington DC-based organization that pairs college athletes with at-risk youth to educate them on HIV/AIDS awareness. Grassroot Soccer is a similar organization, teaming athletes with youth in developing countries and using soccer as a tool to teach HIV/AIDS prevention. Team Up South Africa brought kids from these two groups together to share their experiences and what they've learned.

Element: Monica

Monica Carrillo is furiously blazing a trail for young Afro-Peruvian women in Lima. As a poet, performer, activist, and teacher, she is teaching the next generation to fight racism through self-confidence and knowledge.

The Health Show: Pure Water in Two Minutes

The Health Show interviews Timothy Whitehead, the inventor of a water bottle that makes water safe to drink in two minutes using a filter and UV light.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Find a Word for It

Rape is a weapon that costs nothing, but it can cause as much damage as a bomb. We travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to interview Dr. Denis Mukwege, one of the few doctors in the country willing to treat rape survivors, to discover the truth behind one of the world's greatest unreported evils.

Seeds of Empowerment

Even while facing their own struggles with poverty and work, a group of female coffee pickers from La Carpio, Costa Rica decide to put on a play. It aims to teach fellow workers about the dangers of cancer - something that effects women in their industry at a much higher rate than average.

Women Empowered: Vigilantes de la Vida

Sometimes improving healthcare isn't simply a matter of building new hospitals or training more doctors. Filmmaker Phil Borges travels to the southern Peru, to learn about how local people are working with medical professionals to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for everyone.

TED: Melinda Gates – What Nonprofits Can Learn from Coca-Cola

At TEDxChange, Melinda Gates makes a provocative case for nonprofits taking a cue from corporations such as Coca-Cola, whose plugged-in, global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants—and can get—a Coke. Why shouldn't this work for condoms, sanitation, vaccinations too?

ChildCount: Cell Phones and Health in Sauri, Kenya

Mobile phone technology is being used by local health workers in developing countries to speed up diagnoses and help combat preventable diseases such as malaria, TB, and polio.

A Dollar A Day: Made in China

The jobs that ex-miners in Minnesota see disappearing to China stand for new opportunities for the young Li Jieli to improve her and her family's living condition. Three people from very different worlds and expectations show how they struggle to maintain their security in a shifting and uncertain global economy.

Clean Water

Throughout the world, access to safe drinking water is the most critical element of sustained good health. Clean Water focuses on the highly successful efforts of one humanitarian organization, East Meets West, to bring safe drinking water to rural communities in Vietnam -- led by staff member Richard Brogdon, a Vietnam war veteran who has special reason to help the local Vietnamese community.

Saving Futures. Saving Lives. The Story Of Project Peanut Butter

Children with malnutrition are being given a radical new treatment that is cheap and incredibly effective: fortified peanut butter. Best of all, mothers can administer the ready-to-use food at home, eliminating the need for hospital stays, and empowering families to treat themselves.

WaterHealth International: Improving Access to Safe Drinking Water

Installing public water purification systems in India can create unforeseen benefits, such as reducing the amount of money poor families have to spend each month on expensive medications.

TICAD: Towards a Vibrant Africa

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development is more than just a conference. It has become a major global framework for Asia, Africa, and the UNDP to collaborate in promoting Africa's development. Here are five projects working to improve people's everyday lives throughout the continent. Produced by UNDP.

ViewChange: The Mothers Index

Being a new mom is rewarding and challenging. But what extra burdens do mothers in poor and rural communities face? Take a tour of the world's best and worst places to be a mom, in this report from Save the Children and ViewChange.org.

Tumaini Letu: Our Hope

In the villages of western Kenya, AIDS has robbed hundreds of thousands of children of their parents. This film follows the lives, struggles, and indomitable spirit of three women left to care for these orphans, as they fight to give the children a chance of a better future.