2003-08-25 Freezing Food
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Freezing can keep food fresh and safe to eat. Freezing lowers thefood temperature below zero degrees Celsius. That is the point wherewater…
2003-08-18 Heifer International
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. One of the biggest problems in developing countries is hunger. Anorganization called Heifer International is working to improve thissituation. The organization sends…
2003-08-11 Double-Drum Sawdust Stove
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. Sawdust is what remains after trees and logs are cut up intoboards for building houses and other structures. In many parts ofthe world,…
2003-08-04 Storing Drinking Water
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughoutthe world, drinking water has to be stored for periods of lowrainfall. Tanks or…
2003-07-28 Solar Cookers
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Millions of people around theworld cook their food over a smoky fire every day. It is oftendifficult to find wood for the…
2003-07-21 Habitat for Humanity
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations estimates that more than one-thousand-millionpeople live in poor housing conditions. And that estimate is justfor cities. In developing nations,…
2003-07-14 Oxfam
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. From time to time we examine different organizations involved indevelopment and relief work around the world. This week we tellabout Oxfam. Oxfam…
2003-06-23 Solar Electric Light Fund
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Electric power has yet to reach some places in the world. Infact, a group called SELF estimates that about two-thousand-millionpeople, or one…
2003-06-30 Digital Divide in Developing Nations
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Internet is a system of electronic communication. It helpspeople share information, communicate with family and friends, andstart businesses. But these people…
2003-06-09 WHO Measles Campaign
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. The World Health Organization is asking nations for an extratwo-hundred-million dollars to fight measles in developingcountries. The request was made last month during…
2003-06-16 World Refugee Day
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations refugee agency says the world had nearlytwenty-million refugees and other “people of concern” as last yearbegan. Twelve-million lived outside…
2003-06-02 The Smile Train
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Millions of children around theworld suffer from an easily corrected medical condition called cleftlip. A cleft is a separation in the lip…
2003-05-26 Low-Cost Computers in Thailand
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The government of Thailand has a new program to sell as many asone million low-cost computers to the public. Thailand’s minister ofinformation,…
2003-05-12 Water Storage Systems
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, millions of people in Bangladesh drink ground waterthat has been polluted by naturally high levels of arsenic poison.Finding safe drinking…
2003-05-19 Worker Safety
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new report by the International Labor Organization says abouttwo-million people a year die from accidents and diseases linked totheir jobs. That…