2008-03-24 HIV and Life for Rural Women in South Africa
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. South Africa has the highest number of H.I.V. cases of any country…
2008-03-17 Building a Better Cook Stove for the World’s Poor
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Breathing smoke from cooking stoves or open fires is a common cause…
2008-03-10 Simple Technology to Get to the Nut of a Problem
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Peanuts, or groundnuts, are an important crop in many developing countries. But…
2008-03-03 Questioning a Popular Approach to Lasting Development
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. If you give something to someone for free, will that person value…
2008-02-25 A Business Plan for Social Change
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Starting a business is never easy. But an organization like TechnoServe can…
2008-02-18 Honoring ‘Citizen Diplomats’
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United States Center for Citizen Diplomacy is a nonprofit group started…
2008-02-11 Measuring Star Power as a Force for Activism
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some actors and rock stars use their star power for social activism.…
2008-02-04 How to Do It: Making Paper by Hand
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years…
2008-01-28 Google.org Announces Major Plans to Help the Poor
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Internet search engine company called Google has announced it will give…
2008-01-21 How to Build a Windbreak to Protect Soil
This VOA Special English Development Report. Farmers use different kinds of soil conservation methods to protect their land against damage…
2008-01-14 Can a Strong Legislature Prevent Civil War?
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Governments are always judged by how they use power. But they differ…
2008-01-07 Engineering Low-Tech Solutions for Places in Need
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Sometimes it takes an engineer to help a village. In poor communities,…
2007-12-31 Do-It-Yourself: How to Dry or Smoke Fish, Part 2
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Today we have the second of two reports explaining how to prepare…
2007-12-24 Do-It-Yourself: Preparing Fish for Drying or Smoking
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Canning and freezing are not the only ways to keep fish for…
2007-12-17 Project Seeks Free E-Books for Colleges in Developing Nations
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Books are a high cost of higher education. But the Global Text…