Search Results for: ethiopia
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Videos
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charity:water's Scott Harrison introduces their campaign to bring clean water to 333 communities in Ethiopia.
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Land of Higher Peace: Welcome to the Film
An African-American patriarch takes his son and grandson to the Ethiopian deaf school he founded 45 years ago, hoping to pass the torch of humanitarian concern for impoverished Africa.
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Land of Higher Peace: Social Media and Starting a Children's Home
An African-American patriarch takes his son and grandson to the Ethiopian deaf school he founded 45 years ago, hoping to pass the torch of humanitarian concern for impoverished Africa.
Articles
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Charity:Water: Scott Harrison's September Birthday
Last year, Scott Harrison’s birthday pledge to accept donations instead of birthday presents helped build a wells in Kenya, bringing clean drinking water to ... -
Two Aid Workers Have Been Kidnapped
Two aid workers from the Medecins du Monde were kidnapped by rebels in Ethiopia. They were kidnapped Monday in the Ogaden region which is on the border of So... -
We discuss Jennifer Lopez supporting the Children’s Defense Fund at the DNC, Shepard Fairey partying for Obama, and a month long birthday campaign for drinki...
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10 Million Children In India are Malnourished
The Indian government figures that 60% of India's children are malnourished.
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Creative Disruption: Citizen Voices (African Bloggers on the Cutting Edge)
A Kenyan blogger found a way to get information from the crowd. Now she wants to take the idea to other parts of the world in trouble.
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Malaria Vaccine May Be Available In 2012
A vaccine against the parasitic disease malaria cut illnesses by more than half in field trials and could be safely given with other childhood inoculations...
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Somalia facing 'hidden genocide'
The UN envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, has said there is a "hidden genocide" taking place in the country.
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Aid work 'increasingly hazardous'
Aid agencies are struggling to help those most in need as operating environments become increasingly hazardous, a medical charity said.
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Free bulbs switch on Ethiopians
Ethiopians are rushing to get their hands on free energy-saving light bulbs which are being handed out by a utility to stop power cuts.
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The US Role in Somalia's Calamity
Pirates have put Somalia back on the international agenda, but Somalia's people have yet to receive as much protection as the international tankers off-shore...
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Ethiopia Imposes Aid Agency Curbs
Ethiopia's parliament has passed a controversial bill imposing tight restrictions on aid agencies.
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Mobile Phones, Adapted To Monitor Child Health, Net UNICEF Top Development Prize
UNICEF will share first prize in the United States Development Agency’s innovation competition for adapting basic cell phones to monitor the health of children.
Events
- Amnesty International's Global Write-a-thon Location: everywhere
People
- aglimmerofhope Austin, TX
- Save2011 Denver, CO
Blog posts
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Sunday, 9.7.08 - sent via satellite from Ethiopia I got what I wanted for my birthday this year. A few hours ago, water came shooting out of the ground from 184 feet deep at the Abenea scho...
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A new well in Tigray, Ethiopia
January 14 At about one p.m. today, I had the distinct honor of officially opening a charity: water well in Tigray, Ethiopia sponsored through the Saks Fifth Avenue campaign. More than 600 pe...
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GPS: N 08º47.170 / E038º38.952 Spent the morning at a place called Jawe. Only about 45 minutes outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s bustling capital. I was surprised to find the people here drink...
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Watch us drill the first Twestival well from Ethiopia.
April 11th - April 14th Watch us drill the first Twestival well from Ethiopia. When people from 202 cities from around the globe came together in February to support our work through the Twesti...
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WITNESS is holding Seeding trainings in Venice, Italy and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 22, 2008 Program Coordinator for Europe and the former Soviet Union Violeta Krasnic trains human rights ac...
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September is almost over. Help me beat Max! (or help Max beat me.) Ok, so my birthday is over, but I still have some unfinished business. Before the september campaign began, I challenged 7-year-o...
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September is almost over. Help me beat Max! (or help Max beat me.) Ok, so my birthday is over, but I still have some unfinished business. Before the september campaign began, I challenged 7-year-o...
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Happy Holidays - The mud is gone.
When we started charity: water a little over two years ago, the first thing we did was build six wells in Uganda and take pictures of them to prove the work being done with your money. We've bee...
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The past 30 days have been a whirl-wind. In addition to the expected Holiday rush that commences after Thanksgiving, things were particularly busy at the TOMS HQ. 30,000 pairs of shoes in 30 day...
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Orissa, India. 58,345 hours for clean water.
I jumped back, but too late, as coconut juice splashed all over my jeans. The upside-down transfer from coconut to steel cup hadn't factored in the volume differential. I sat on a plastic chair ...
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The developing world is so far down on the economic food chain that, as I've said before, they just can't care about anything other than survival. Because of this, their contributions to global car...
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January 8 58,345 hours for clean water. Orissa, India I jumped back, but too late, as coconut juice splashed all over my jeans. The upside-down transfer from coconut to steel cup hadn’t fact...
