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President Rene Preval Assesses Haiti’s Quake Recovery

PBS NewsHour‘s Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating earthquake. There are many lessons from this. One is that while NGOs‘ independent work is essential immediately after the disaster, their working in co-ordination with the government is essential as time passes. I …

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Olga Speranskaya, Goldman Prizewinner, for Excellence in Protecting the Environment

Image via Wikipedia Olga Speranskaya works to identify and eliminate chemical stockpiles in former USSR countries. “Russian scientist Olga Speranskaya successfully transformed the NGO community in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) into a potent, participatory force working to identify and eliminate the Soviet legacy of toxic chemicals in the environment.” Olga’s work …

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