2003-05-05 Ceramic Water Purifier
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. Each year more than two-million people die from diseases causedby drinking dirty water. That is the estimate of the World HealthOrganization. Dirty water…
2003-04-28 Superadobe Homes
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A building designer in the United States has developed small,rounded homes called “superadobes.” They are made from earthstrengthened with cement and wire.…
2003-04-14 UNESCO Literacy Campaign
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations has launched a new ten-year campaign toincrease literacy around the world. People with literacy skills canread and write. People…
2003-03-17 Drug Trade in Developing Countries
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Trade in illegal drugs is harming the economies of developingnations. That is the warning contained in a recent report by theInternational Narcotics…
2003-01-27 Cloth Filters Fight Cholera
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Researchers have discovered a simple answer to a huge problem indeveloping countries. They have found that cholera and other deadlyorganisms can be…
2003-04-21 Botswana Ecotourism Project
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. An ancient community in Botswana has launched a new program thatwill help development in that southern African country. The Bukakhwe(Bu-KA-kweh) San Bushmen have…
2003-03-03 World Social Forum
This is the VOA Special English Development Report Organizers of the World Social Forum have chosen India as themeeting place in two-thousand-four. The conference has taken placein Brazil since it…
2003-02-24 Female Genital Cutting
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. Activists for the rights of women have declared a yearlyobservance to oppose the cutting of female sex organs. Thistradition is followed mostly in…
2003-02-17 Lymphatic Filariasis
This the VOA Special English Development Report. Researchers have discovered a successful new treatment to fightlymphatic filariasis around the world. This disease is commonlyknown as elephantiasis. It is the leading…
2003-02-10 President Bush’s AIDS Proposal
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. President Bush has announced a new program to help fight AIDS andthe H-I-V virus that causes it. If approved by Congress, the…
2003-02-03 WHO Director-General Named
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. South Korean doctor Jong Wook Leehas been named the new director-general of the World HealthOrganization. He will replace former Norwegian Prime Minister…
2003-01-20 AIDS Drug Coalition
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new international coalition has been launched to help fightAIDS and the H-I-V virus that causes it. The new International H-I-VTreatment Access…
2003-03-10 World Food Program
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. The United Nations World Food Program is forty years old thisyear. It began as an experiment to provide food aid to nations affectedby…
2002-12-30 Adaptive Eyecare
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. The World Health Organization estimates as many asone-thousand-million people around the world cannot see correctly.About ninety percent of these people are in poor…
2002-12-23 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…