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…
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…
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…
2007-09-03 Interest Grows in Training to Prepare for a Disaster
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. We talked last week about Mercy Corps, a nonprofit group that provides…
2007-08-27 Mercy Corps Seeks to Expand Its Services
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Often, when a natural disaster strikes, one of the first groups to…
2007-08-20 Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Farmers use different kinds of soil conservation methods to protect their land…
2007-08-13 UN Reports on Extreme Weather and Climate Events
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This summer, heavy rains and flooding have caused more than five hundred…
2007-08-06 Should HIV-Infected Mothers Breastfeed?
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization says that breastfeeding is the best way to…
2007-07-30 Working With Clay: A How-to Guide
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Clay is found almost everywhere in the world. It is formed by…
2007-07-23 Mandela Forms ‘Elders’ to Work on World Problems
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Former South African president Nelson Mandela celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday last week…
2007-07-16 Progress Mixed Halfway to Development Goals for 2015
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In September of two thousand, world leaders set eight goals for bringing…
2007-07-09 Seeing Pressures but Also Possibilities in Urban Growth
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Soon, more of us will be living in cities than in rural…
2007-07-02 Researchers Work on Malaria-Resistant Mosquitoes
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists say they have made more progress in developing malaria-resistant mosquitoes. The…
2007-06-25 Banks Look to Expand Microfinance Services
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Officials from some of the world’s leading banks were in the Netherlands…
2007-06-18 US Lists More Nations as Worst for Modern-Day Slavery
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United States has accused several of its Arab allies of being…