2008-04-21 Seven Win Goldman Environmental Prize
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This Tuesday is Earth Day. On April twenty-second, nineteen seventy, millions of…
2008-04-14 Five Women Honored in Washington for Global Leadership
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Five women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to…
2008-04-07 Goldman Sachs Invests in Women Through Education
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Goldman Sachs Group, the international investment banking company, has launched a new…
2008-03-31 The Future of a Vaccine, and New Warnings for Asia
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new study says Asia must do more to prevent AIDS, or…
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…