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Bringing Solar To Impoverished Towns, With A Model Straight From The Corporate World
Disillusioned by corporate life, Manuel Aguilar and Juan Rodriguez started Quetsol, an organization that uses business acumen to supply rural Guatemalans with solar power.
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- Energy
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- Latin America
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How Candles Are Making New Opportunities for Women in Haiti
Siiri Morley, executive director of Prosperity Catalyst, knew ever since her Peace Corps days that she wanted to help women in poor parts of the world better their economic situations.
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Rival Economists in Public Battle Over Cure for India’s Poverty
She is 7 years old, covered in dirt and spends her days asking for food from pedestrians and drivers in one of this city’s central business districts.
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- South Asia
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Visionary – The Q&A: Dr Geoff Tabin and Dr Sanduk Ruit
The world has around 40m blind people, around 90% of them in the developing world. Much of this blindness treatable.
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- Health Care
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Counterfeit medicine trade targets Africa’s poor
"Street medication kills. The street is killing (safe) medication," declares a banner outside a pharmacy in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde, where the dangerous trade is rampant.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Pro Mujer Helps Struggling Women in Latin America
Lynne Patterson, co-founder of Pro Mujer is setting a new standard on how small loans combined with basic entrepreneurial training and health education can help.
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Zuckerberg Wants to Bring the Whole Planet Internet Access
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring Internet access to everyone. Late Tuesday he announced the launch of Internet.org, an initiative to bring Internet access to the two-thirds of the world's population that can't get online.
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- Technology
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- infrastructure
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RBC inks first deal for its Social Finance initiative, investing $500,000 in MaRS Cleantech Fund
MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early-stage cleantech venture fund. This is the first deal announced through the RBC initiative. Launched in 2012, the MaRS Cleantech Fund aims to provide early-stage funding to companies developing next-generation clean technology breakthroughs with global markets, deep intellectual property and capital-lean business models.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy