Rwanda

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'We don't want a donation, we want a business.'

It's hard enough to keep a business afloat these days, much less develop a hit product for one of the largest department store chains in the U.S.

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Girls Need Better Access to Sanitary Pads, Period.

Adolescent girls in developing countries miss up to 50 days of school each year because their families can't afford to buy them sanitary pads.

Plumpy’nut is frequently used by humanitarian agencies in emergency malnutrition situations. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Fortifying Foods To Fight Malnutrition in Africa

Humanitarian agencies have long been using protein and energy bars filled with nutrients and vitamins when responding to food emergencies.

A Rwandan woman weaves a grass mat. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamking/580831396/">GrahamKing (Flickr)</a>

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Millennium Development Goals Reshape Tradition, Livelihood of Impoverished Village

In Mayange, Rwanda, tourists meander through the workplaces and markets of female weavers, observing what they believe is a 'day in the life' of an impoverished African villager.

"Peace from Rwanda." Photo: courtesy of <a href="http://bachersblog.com/">Adam Bacher</a>

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Stories of Reconciliation and Rebuilding in Rwanda

Rwanda, 1994: Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly members of the Tutsi minority, are slaughtered by their ethnic Hutu neighbors in one of the worst genocides of the 20th century.

Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/hddod/536392298/">hdod (flickr)</a>

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Flock to the Cause

Chicken giant Tyson Foods is helping Rwandan women raise their own chickens as part of the ambitious UN-sponsored Millennium Project to combat world hunger, disease and poverty