From Rachel A. Becker / National Geographic: APOPO, an international nonprofit, has trained Gambian pouched rats to sniff out landmines in countries across the world. These rats have terrible vision, but an amazing sense of smell and have cleared over 13,000 mines since 1997. Training the rats takes about nine months, and includes socializing, teaching them how to walk on a rope in the field, and of course, how to sniff out minuscule amounts of TNT.
The Alliance for Youth Organizing/ Alliance for Youth Action empowers young people’s organizations to strengthen democracy, fix the economy, and
The Dara Institute operates on a model that recognizes how one dimension of poverty, such as income, affects other dimensions,
The documentary Descendant follows a community in Mobile, Alabama, the last known location where enslaved people were brought to the
Arzu is a nonprofit organization that empowers women rug weavers in rural Afghanistan by connecting them to markets to buy
Room to Read invests in girls’ education to bring about long-term, systemic changes throughout Cambodian society. The four main elements
The United States can outsource certain kinds of “microwork,” such as accurately digitizing large swaths of information, to developing countries