Vera Cordeiro: Addressing diseases of poverty
The Dara Institute works to create a community-level strategy that addresses the intersecting challenges of poverty and health. The organization
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The Dara Institute works to create a community-level strategy that addresses the intersecting challenges of poverty and health. The organization
The ‘Crisis Text Line‘ works with teens to prevent suicide and help them deal with the pressures of depression and
Civic leaders and other actors met with Pittsburgh residents and housing developers in order to create a policy brief –
With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes.
Water: Charity assumed that money and celebrity exposure would be able to solve the world’s access to clean water crisis.
The World Health Organization estimates that $200 billion worth of productivity is lost every year due to untreated poor eyesight.
Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation, practices that are common and yet dangerous.
There is nothing more difficult than changing entrenched cultural practices, especially those as shrouded in taboos as female genital cutting.
The vast majority of births in Malawi still happen under the care of traditional birth attendants, who are often unequipped
Many people who practice Female Genital Mutilation (FMG) consider it a private, cultural issue. The procedure, which is performed on