The winner of the 2018 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize at the University of Pennsylvania is myAgro, a pioneering mobile layaway saving model that enables smallholder farmers to invest in seeds to improve their harvests and move themselves out of poverty.
read moreTwo of the things I love most about my job are getting to see amazing innovations and talk to remarkable people. During a recent trip to New York, I got to check both boxes. I met a woman named Papa Blandine Mbwey who is using a revolutionary new invention to help more kids get vaccinated.
read moreThe International Finance Corporation (IFC), a sister organization of the World Bank, is making a big push in the Asia-Pacific region.
read moreAkshay Verma grew up in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, but went on to work as an investment banker with UBS in London after getting degrees at Columbia University and Oxford University. While he enjoyed a privileged life, images of poverty in Bihar continued to haunt him. In 2013, the millennial left his job and returned to Bihar “to change things and make it better.”
read moreCharitable giving has long been the domain of wealthy industrialists and their foundations after a lifetime of achievements. But the profile of today’s philanthropists is changing: Increasingly, they are Gen Xers and millennials who are reinventing what it means to do good. They want more than just their name on the donors’ wall; they want to see real and measurable results.
read moreMore than a billion people worldwide, including in the U.S., lack access to basic health care, but they are very much on the radar of some public spirited organizations, both big and small. One is Medtronic, a large manufacturer of medical devices that has its worldwide operational headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn.
read moreAntibiotic resistance — the phenomenon in which bacteria stop responding to certain antibiotics — is a growing threat around the world.
It's expected to kill 10 million people annually by 2050.
read moreWomen wait by a maternal health care clinic in Pabre, Burkina Faso, for a free cervical cancer screening. Matthea Roemer for NPR
read moreAbout two weeks ago, an internal memo leaked from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
read morePatients from Yemen thank UAE for medical treatment in India that helped them return to normal life When flying from Yemen to India in April for treatment, Hassan Abdullah Ahmad’s left leg had already been amputated and he was told that his right leg would meet the same fate.
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