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Human Rights Watch Explores the Lives of Indian Women Who Clean Human Waste
Lalibai stands by the entrance to the village cremation grounds. Before she took action, villagers had forbidden members of her community to cremate their dead here. © 2014 Digvijay Singh Can you imagine getting up every morning to clean human waste from dry toilets (those without running water or that are not attached to a…
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#Newborn2013 Twitter Chat
Storify by Social Good Moms Mon, Jul 08 2013 12:46:19 #Newborn2013 Twitter Chat On Monday, July 8, 2013 the Social Good Moms’ founder Jennifer James hosted a chat with guest Gary Darmstadt, Director of Family Health at the Gates Foundation. NGOs, experts, bloggers, researchers, and digital moms chimed in with information and asked pivotal questions…
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3 Opportunities to Give to Our Partners on Valentine’s Day
Today is Valentine’s Day. It’s a great day for receiving gifts from our loved ones, but also a great chance to give as well. Three of our partners have created giving campaigns around Valentine’s Day that we think are practical, inexpensive ways to share the love. WaterAid America Woman gathering water at Bishoftu hospital in…
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Team Creates Clean Water Solution for South Africans
James Smith, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Dr. Rebecca Dillingham, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Global Health, with a PureMadi water filter. In areas where water is often filled with pathogens that are deadly or can cause severe illness it is important to either filter water or, the alternative, have…
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New Fishing, Agricultural Development Project in Haiti
Development projects in the developing world help in immeasurable ways. They create a blueprint for implemented ideas that work and even those that have drawbacks, but most importantly they help people lead more productive, healthy lives. Even if the projects aren’t scaled nationwide or even regionally development projects allow experts to help those in need…
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Developing Countries’ Family Planning Commitments
In order to improve family planning services around the world and increase its access by an additional 120 million women in developing countries, these countries must first commit to making a wide range of improvements in their current family planning agendas. At the London Summit on Family Planning this week we heard from a wide range…