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Fish Farming Eases Living with HIV/AIDS

Posted on December 21, 2007
Countries: Malawi
Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Over 1,000 households have benefited from a World Vision project in rural Malawi that helps communities build and operate fish farms.
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Keywords: sustainability, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, agriculture

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Youth's Helping Hand Earns Global Accolade

Posted on November 21, 2007
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Sourav Borse is a 2007 Global Action Award recipient for his efforts to mobilize his peers and build a health and education facility in rural India.
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Keywords: HIV/AIDS, youth, awareness, NGOs, Mercy Corps

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Reducing the Risk of Disaster

Posted on October 15, 2007
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Mercy Corps is engaging in disaster risk reduction programming to identify hazards and lessen the destruction caused by disasters.
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Keywords: natural disasters, environment, Middle East, earthquakes, avalanches

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A New Harvest

Posted on October 2, 2007
Topics: Economic Development
Countries: India
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Mercy Corps' work in rural Indian communities has helped to empower people both in terms of self-sufficient businesses and self-sufficient communities.
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Keywords: Tea, civil society

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The Connection - Education and Poverty

Posted on September 19, 2007
Previously filed under: Success Stories
Watch the Mercy Corps' short video that brings forward the facts and figures on global access to education.
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Keywords: education, poverty

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New Frontline in AIDS Awareness

Posted on August 21, 2007
Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
In Benin, young people are using innovative aproaches to increase HIV awareness.
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Keywords: HIV/AIDS, awareness, internet, communication, Africa, prevention, disease

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Rebuilding, Brick by Brick

Posted on July 26, 2007
Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Diew Ajak has turned the lost trade of brickmaking into a sucessful business in Sudan.
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Keywords: Sucess story, Sudan, brickmaking

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Traditional Water Mill Technology Helps Boost Livlihoods

Posted on July 5, 2007
Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, Success Stories
The 'ghatta' has changed the lives of many Nepalese families.
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Keywords: nepal, Ghatta, Water Mills, technology

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Life in Shashtepa Takes a Turn for the Better

Posted on June 29, 2007
Topics: Humanitarian Aid
Countries: Afghanistan
Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, Success Stories
Community members in a small village have benefited from Mercy Corps' Afghanistan Rural Recovery Program.
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Keywords: rural, Mercy Corps

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The ‘Mauritian Miracle'- A Southern African Success Story

Posted on June 13, 2007
Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Unlike most of southern Africa and contrary to modern development theory, Mauritius has managed to develop substantial prospects for economic growth.
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Keywords: Southern Africa, Mauritius, sugar, African Success Story, European Union,

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Positive Women Taking Their Place in the Economy

Posted on May 10, 2007
Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
Local Ugandan NGOs help provide HIV positive women with projects that help support them and their families.
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Keywords: women, Uganda, sucess, small business, HIV/AIDS, employment

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Young Guru - Building Awareness Through Film

Posted on May 4, 2007
Countries: India
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
From the streets of India, Ashikul Islam has become an award winning film maker and activist, changing the world one film at a time.
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Keywords: youth, poverty, entrepreneurship, Bengal

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Building the Village Education Project

Posted on April 16, 2007
Countries: Ecuador
Previously filed under: South America, Success Stories
In Ecuador, public education costs money, and many families do not have the resources to send their children to school.
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Keywords: education, children

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Water for Everyone

Posted on April 3, 2007
Previously filed under: Africa, Success Stories
How one individual's simple discovery, the refreshing taste of pure rainwater, is providing solutions in the developing world.
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Keywords: water, Africa, Raincatcher, conservation, World Water Day, Jack Rose, rainwater

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Welding His Way to Work

Posted on February 26, 2007
Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
Learn about how Mercy Corps matches young men and women with professional job training in Kyrgyzstan.
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Keywords: Jobs, Work, training, apprenticeship, Mercy Corps, success, entrepreneurship

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Zimbabwe: Inflation Rockets to 231-Million Percent

All Africa - Fri, 10/10/2008 - 08:24
Zimbabwe's annual inflation raced to a record 231-million percent in July, up from 11,2-million percent the previous month, deepening a severe economic crisis, official figures showed on Thursday.

Africa: Going Bananas to Fight Poverty And Hunger

All Africa - Fri, 10/10/2008 - 07:30
Arguably one of the world's most popular fruits, bananas are poorly marketed as a value-added commercial crop in Africa. But that is about to change as a plan is being conceptualised to transform the way Africa produces and sells bananas.

Global Markets Dive in Relentless Selloff

International Herald Tribune - Fri, 10/10/2008 - 06:48
Global investors looked to leaders meeting in Washington for coordinated action to end the financial turmoil on Friday as stocks plummeted again around the world.

The Stunning Collapse of Iceland

Business Week - Fri, 10/10/2008 - 06:30
Home to just 304,000 people, tiny Iceland is emerging as the biggest casualty of the global financial crisis.

Don't Cut Aid to Africa, AU Head Pleads to World

The Epoch Times - Fri, 10/10/2008 - 11:44
The chairman of the African Union urged the world not to slow aid to the world's poorest continent. Experts say that while Africa is relatively insulated from the global credit crisis, there could well be a negative effect on investment, remittances and aid flows from abroad.
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