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A successful program from Living Goods in Uganda trains village women to sell medicines, fortified foods and other important goods
From Fred de Sam Lazaro / PBS NewsHour: Cambodia is littered with unexploded land mines, posing a huge threat to people even decades after the conflict. In order to help locate and remove mines, a unique organization named Apopo trains rats to sniff them out. Rats have extremely sensitive noses and have found about 500 mines and more than 350 unexploded bombs in Cambodia since 2016. The drawback is the pace of the long, tedious, and dangerous work.
A successful program from Living Goods in Uganda trains village women to sell medicines, fortified foods and other important goods
Landesa helps families in India gain legal control over their land. Supporting women to lead the digital land records documentation
The World Health Organization estimates that $200 billion worth of productivity is lost every year due to untreated poor eyesight.
In countries like Cambodia, Angola, and Mozambique, rats are saving lives by detecting untriggered land mines. An international nonprofit, Apopo,
Grove Social Impact Partners is a group of social impact consultants that draws on the expertise of veteran social entrepreneurs
Africa No Filter supports storytellers and organizations countering stereotypical and harmful narratives about the African continent. Moky Makura of Africa
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