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  • Class Struggle: India's Experiment in Schooling Tests Rich and Poor

    June 04, 2011 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    The country of India has long suffered from extreme income inequalities, with many poor children growing up with lackluster education. The Right to Education Act, passed in 2009, requires elite private schools to admit 25% low-income or disabled children. The law's success is measured at the Shri Ram School in New Delhi, and some wealthy families are unsatisfied with its inclusiveness.

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  • Reno Site Offers Comparison Shopping for Home Wind Turbines

    March 28, 2011 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Reno, Nevada

    In a campaign to boost community interest in and use of urban wind power, city officials in Reno, Nevada, are helping consumers take the guesswork out of buying home turbines. Through an online consumer guide called the Green Energy Dashboard, potential buyers are able to track power output and durability of different turbines and determine which would be most efficient for their community.

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  • What Makes Community Health Care Work?

    February 18, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

    The second of two columns on how ordinary women trained to become their village doctors are making rural villages much healthier. Financial incentives, supporting workers, and encouraging cooperation from governments are just some of the strategies being implemented.

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  • Villages Without Doctors

    February 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

    Many health professionals choose to not live in poor, rural areas that lack access to healthcare. The Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project are training local women in rural parts of India to fill this gap. These women visit families in their community and offer services like education on breastfeeding to new mothers and vaccinations to children.

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  • Mothers-to-Be Are Getting the Message

    February 07, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Martinsville, Virginia

    An average of 28,000 children born in the U.S. each year die before their first birthday – and many more face disabilities and serious life-long health problems, often because they are born prematurely or at low birth weights. A free service, text4baby, delivers crucial health advice via text message to pregnant women and new mothers.

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  • How to Grow a Social Business

    February 04, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, Antigua Guatemala

    Two columns on microconsignment, a new variation on microcredit that helps poor people living in developing countries - particularly women in rural villages - start small social businesses without taking on debt or requiring previous business skills. The organization, Soluciones Comunitarias, partners with a non-profit and a university student program to manage the supply chain and other components of the business necessary to support the social entrepreneurs in successful micro-ventures.

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  • Illuminating Thoughts on Power

    January 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Tamkuha, Bihar

    A follow-up article on Husk Power Systems, which has created a scalable system to turn rice husks into electricity that is reliable, eco-friendly and affordable for families in India. The company bases their business model around local involvement, grassroots systems that cater to the immediate community, and continual accountability. This article fills in some information gaps from the initial piece, "Fixes: A Light in India."

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  • A Light in India

    January 10, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    Access to electricity in India takes a huge economic, educational, and health-related toll. A small company called Husk Power Systems has created an innovative system that is turning rice husks into electricity and illuminating India’s poorest state.

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  • Helping the World's Poorest, for a Change

    January 07, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City, Distrito Federal

    This is a column on an important new development program in use in at least 40 developing countries: give the poor cash payments, contingent on their use of health clinics and their children’s school attendance, to help break the cycle of poverty.

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  • To Beat Back Poverty, Pay the Poor

    January 03, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

    Two columns on the most important new development program today, in use in at least 40 poor countries: give the poor cash payments, contingent on their use of health clinics and their children’s school attendance. These programs, which started in Mexico and Brazil, help the poor now and try to create a generation with less poverty in the future.

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