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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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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 08:26
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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