2009-05-25 Saving Preterm Babies With an Idea From Nature
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some mothers in Senegal are learning a new way to save the lives of babies born too soon. The idea is not…
2009-05-18 Saving the ‘World’s Most Holy River’
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Christians, Jews and Muslims all consider the Jordan River holy. Last week, Pope Benedict visited the place where John the Baptist is…
2009-05-11 In India, a Cycle Rickshaw With Help From the Sun
This the VOA Special English Development Report. Picture a bicycle with a two-wheeled carriage in place of a back tire. India has millions of these cycle rickshaws. The operators are…
2009-05-04 ‘Gone Rural’ Project in Swaziland Lets Women Earn Money While Working from Home
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Every three weeks, a truck drives to a rural community in the Kingdom of Swaziland. The purpose of the trip is to…
2009-04-27 Seven Activists Honored For Improving Environment in Their Nations
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Seven activists from around the world have received the Goldman Environmental Prize for two thousand nine. Former Vice President Al Gore presented…
2009-04-20 Making a Solar Water Heater
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Solar water heaters are devices that use energy from the sun to heat water. Solar water heating is used around the world.…
2009-04-13 Experts Watch for Spread of Chikungunya, a Highly Painful Virus
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People get chikungunya fever when they are bitten by mosquitoes infected with the disease. For many years, the disease has been found…
2009-04-06 Experts Seek More Attention to Buruli Ulcer Disease
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Buruli ulcer is a bacterial disease that eats away muscle tissue. People can become disabled. They may even need to have an…
2009-03-30 Service Organizations Help Prevent Loss of Eyesight in India
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Almost forty years ago, a community service organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State, in western India. The Rotary Club of…
2009-03-23 Growing Crops With Less Water
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the…
2009-03-16 Teaching HIV Prevention to the Young and Not-So-Young
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A researcher says three hundred forty-three thousand AIDS deaths in South Africa in the last ten years could have been prevented. Nicoli…
2009-03-09 A Voice for the Victims: Alison Des Forges and the Genocide in Rwanda
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Alison Des Forges was an American-born human rights expert and historian. She was one of fifty people killed in a plane crash…
2009-03-02 Cancer May Soon Be World’s Leading Killer
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health experts predict that soon, more people will die from cancer than from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. They expect that by…
2009-02-23 A Doctor Who Left His Mark on a World That Lives in Fear of Ebola
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declared the end of an outbreak of Ebola virus. Cases were first identified…
2009-02-16 Rural Areas of Kenya Get Connected to the Web
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some young engineers from the United States have brought the Internet to several areas of rural Kenya. Their idea was to connect…