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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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School in India Teaches Women to Improve Lives, Towns

Image by Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia via Flickr The following is from the excellent PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and his team. Imagine the opportunities, not just for solar power as in Bunker Roy‘s school, but for Tech Laureate D. Vidya Sagar’s stoves that protect rural people from indoor smoke and the external environment from …

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