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 Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand…
2007-12-10 More People Hear Call of Mobile Activism
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Activists fight for different things. But one thing many activists around the world hold in common is their use of mobile phones…
2007-12-03 Group Works to Build Peace Through Medicine
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. How do you define diplomacy? For the group Physicians for Peace, diplomacy is all about bringing medical education and care to places…
2007-11-26 A Cool Way to Keep Food From Spoiling
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A few degrees can make a big difference when it comes to food storage. Foods can go bad if they get too…
2007-11-19 A WiLD Idea: Wireless Long-Distance Internet for Rural Poor
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Eric Brewer is a busy man. He is a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also director…
2007-11-12 Shining a Light on Water to Prevent Infections
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Viruses, bacteria and other organisms in dirty water sicken hundreds of millions of people every year. Yet there are many different water-treatment…
2007-11-05 Keeping Count of Who Enters the World or Leaves
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Governments may be accused of keeping too many records on their people. But no one seems to argue with recording births, deaths…
2007-10-29 Science Journals Examine Poverty and Development
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Last Monday, science journals around the world published what was called a “Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development.” Organizers at…
2007-10-22 Hunger: New Causes for Same Old Problem
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations says more than eight hundred fifty million people do not have enough food. For this year’s World Food Day…
2007-10-15 Finding New Ways to Feed the World’s Hungry Children
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. October sixteenth is World Food Day. The campaign chosen for this year by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is “The Right…
2007-10-08 New Findings About Husbands, Wives and AIDS
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A common belief about AIDS and marriage is that husbands are more likely to infect wives than the other way around. Generally…
2007-10-01 Project Aims to Raise Demand for Laptops for Poor Children
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The project known as One Laptop Per Child has a new campaign to bring its computers to children in developing countries. The…
2007-09-24 Child Deaths Found at Record Low
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF says a record low number of children are dying before the age of five. The United Nations Children’s Fund has records…
2007-09-17 New Web Site Targets World’s Unsafe Drinking Water
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. More than one billion people around the world do not have clean drinking water. Their water supplies are unsafe because of natural…
2007-09-10 UNICEF to Work With a Private Group to Fight AIDS
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF is joining with a nonprofit group to bring H.I.V./AIDS programs to more women and children in five countries. UNICEF, the United…