Anyone reading this have any charities, links, or anything else that’s interesting that we should know about? Leave us a comment with it.
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“The PlayPump systems are innovative, sustainable, patented water pumps powered by children at play. Installed near schools, the PlayPump system doubles as a water pump and a merry-go-round for children.”
“PlayPumps International is a nonprofit organization that enables individuals, governments, foundations, and companies to donate PlayPump™ water systems to rural African communities and schools. Donors to PlayPumps […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
The Dalit Freedom Network
“The Dalit Freedom Network partners with the Dalits in their quest for religious freedom, social justice, and human rights by mobilizing human, informational, and financial resources.”
Here’s a link you may have over looked on the “Make A Difference” page. I encourage you to look again because this is a heart breaking thing […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
An incredible thing happened today halfway across the world. On this day in Nusa Lembongan, Indonesia, our friend Eric Hires delivered a brand new custom-made fishing boat to Made.
This is a follow up to a previous post
Click “read more” to read the full blog posting taken from the myspace bulletin
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“Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore”
Click here to find out more about the site.
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“The One Laptop Per Child Project and Intel have put their differences aside, at least for now, as Intel agrees to take a seat on the OLPC Board of Directors. The new “peace” between Intel and OLPC will also involve the project receiving some funding from Intel, and according to a statement, “Intel and OLPC […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
For the 1.9 billion children from the developing world, there are:
o 640 million without adequate shelter (1 in 3)
o 400 million with no access to safe water (1 in 5)
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I don’t know what to think and am torn when I see sites like this, are the companies really out to help people? I hope so and would like to think so but when the the first thing on the top of the site is “Buy…” I get kind of skeptical. What do you think […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
“To the war-weary people of Darfur , nothing seems to symbolize the international community’s inability to end the four-year-old conflict more than the 7,000 A.U. peacekeepers stationed here.
Tasked with monitoring a cease-fire that the Sudanese government and rebel groups have never taken seriously, the peacekeepers find themselves the targets of growing hostility from civilians— and, […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
“A Japanese medical team has found that a form of antibiotic could prevent cancer patients from losing hair during chemotherapy, a doctor involved in the research said Monday.
Toshiyuki Sakai said his team had found “alopestatin” reduced hair loss by 70 percent when used on rats also given etoposide anti-cancer drugs.”
When I first came across and […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
There’s been some talk recently about how it’s becoming very popular to be eco-friendly (Green). What do you think about that? Is it true and would you be more likely to buy a green product because of the trendieness?
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Have you checked out Need Magazine’s Flickr page?
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We (and by “We”, I mean myself) put pieces of articles and other stuff on the site to go along with the posts. For example when posting a news article I tend to post the first part of a relevant part of the article and then a link to the rest. Sometimes I feel its […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
“The homeless often live their lives invisible to those rushing by on busy sidewalks or sitting idly in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Photographer Jeremy Cowart sought to capture the homelessness of Nashville while letting them share their story. Here, Cowart answers questions about what he was thinking behind the lens, how poverty is often forgotten in the […] (via http://mitm.wordpress.com/feed/)
