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Surgery Goes Global
Drafting a plan for universal access to surgical care
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Leaning In’ And ‘Pulling Up’: Women’s Economic Equality In The Middle East
According to Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, too few women are making it to the top, mainly because of socialized gender roles.This rings especially true in the Arab World’s Gulf States, where women often represent a more educated talent pool than the rest of the population, but struggle especially hard against convention, or workplace expectations.
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- Education
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The Global Shortage of Health Workers
Health workers are essential for health care. Without health workers there are no health systems, yet there is a critical global shortage of them, and it is the poorest countries that are most affected.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday: Coffee Talk (and Action): Sustainable Harvest’s Griswold on supply chain empathy and what’s brewing for smallholder farmers
The drive toward transparency and “empathy” has been David Griswold’s mission since creating Sustainable Harvest, a seller of fair trade coffee to the likes of Green Mountain and Whole Foods. This mission to inject more symmetry into the business has served Sustainable Harvest well. In 2013, the company closed $70 million in global sales. He spoke with NextBillion about what’s next.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Loans facilitate skill development training in India
Skill development training, which costs anywhere between Rs 20, 000 and Rs 50,000 for a typical engineering student, now comes along with loans which can be converted into easy monthly installments (EMIs).
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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So You Want to Work in the Impact Business Space … But Aren’t Sure How to Go About It: Start by asking yourself these three questions
"How do I prepare myself to enter an industry that I don’t know so much about? Who do I talk to? What should I research? Where do I find jobs? Who are they looking for?" Over the course of the last 7 years, edge has been working towards bringing together the right talent to social enterprises. In that time we’ve collected a couple of tips that you are likely to find useful.
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- Education
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Heifer International Receives $25.5m Grant to Expand Its East Africa Dairy Development Program
Heifer International received a $25.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project and assist more than 136,000 farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Flying the Flag of Inspiration: University of São Paulo combines education, community development
“The Flag,” an extension of a project created in 1957, organizes students in educational, scientific and charitable activities every year in different communities around Brazil.
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- Education, Health Care