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Meet South Africa's Fog Harvesters

Picture a fine web of threads strung between two poles, angled to catch the wind. The mesh is light and beaded with droplets of water that make transparent columns, which pool into collections on the ground. It's a fog-catching device: an evocative...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 11:06 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog
Tell Obama to Fulfill His Promise of a Global Education Fund

When he was still on the presidential campaign trail with just a month to go, Barack Obama made a promise that has been made time and again by America’s political leaders. That is, that “every child — every boy, and every girl — should have the ability...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 11:35 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog
The Nuclear Issue is a Poverty One, Too

Newspapers around the world heralded this week’s nuclear summit in Washington, DC as a huge step for the world, and evidence that President Obama is finding his groove on foreign policy. Left out of the conversation, though? The fact that nuclear proliferation's...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 6:51 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog
In the Bid to Own African Land, Where Are the Women?

On the short end of the stick, in most cases. Even as countries across the continent are trying to formalize land ownership, women risk getting left behind. After colonialism, Africa ended up with two systems of ownership. One looks familiar to Westerners...

Published Mon, Apr 19 2010 7:57 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog
Everybody's a Winner With Free Rice

Calling all online gamers, whiz-kids and humanitarians! Want to exercise your brain and feed the hungry, all with a simple click? I recently discovered my newest procrastination technique on the website Free Rice . Part online game, part IQ test and part...

Published Thu, Apr 01 2010 6:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog
UN Sex Abuses Get Their Own Regular Press Releases

As victories for public transparency go, this is a pretty depressing one. Sex abuses among UN troops have gotten prominent enough that the UN has officially started scheduling quarterly press releases to offer updated statistics on reports of such crimes...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 8:24 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog
Fast Food: An All-American Epidemic? Not Anymore

Coke is an all-American drink, isn’t it? Not anymore. As of 2006, fully 73% of Coke’s volume sales were done outside of North America. MacDonalds now has franchises in 121 countries. Even the former Soviet Union is home to 79 MacDonald's franchises...

Published Sat, Apr 17 2010 9:21 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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April 2010 - Global Health

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Meet South Africa's Fog Harvesters

Tell Obama to Fulfill His Promise of a Global Education Fund

The Nuclear Issue is a Poverty One, Too

In the Bid to Own African Land, Where Are the Women?

Everybody's a Winner With Free Rice

UN Sex Abuses Get Their Own Regular Press Releases

Fast Food: An All-American Epidemic? Not Anymore