Hundreds
of Thousands Call Each other for Peace in Jerusalem Jerusalem 30 minutes ago -- Hello Peace, a service allowing Jews
and Palestinians to call each other ....
Volunteer
Opportunity: Web Content Generation in Africa
People of Africa
Foundation is looking for community/grassroots-level news
from Africa, but especially
self-narrated stories of community activists, whether overseas
volunteers or local "unsung heroes" or "pioneers", providing their own
subjective and other insights of their activities..More opportunities
at Idealist
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Patterns of Uplift in South Africa and the Uplift Tapestry
for Africa
Jim Garthe's
innovation: The pioneering work of Jim Garthe
at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, in converting plastic waste into an
energy resource has a great significance for India's environment...
From Good News
India
Real People
Building a Better World Ode
Magazine articles, by David
Bornstein and "Are You Obsessed, Really Obsessed by an Idea?" by Marco
Visscher and Tijn Touber. June 2004
Favorite
Glimpses of Hope The Promises Film Project
The eyes of the world are forever on the Middle
East. And while most of us are pondering how the region's volatility
will affect our own lives, some of us are actually try to bring an end
to it. The producers behind the Promises Project followed seven
teenagers on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and were
able to illustrate in a powerful, award-winning film the common bonds
between these youth whom history would have become mortal enemies... Promises Project and
Seeds of Peace [more]
After
micro credit, it's micro capital, now. At the Indian
Institute of Management at Ahmedabad [IIM-A] , Prof. Anil Gupta
pioneered the idea of mining rural India for marketable innovations. He
identified the knowledge and skills with India's poor as an untapped
resource, thus unlocking a huge treasure which everyone suspected
existed but no one had bothered to pursue. His work resulted in a vast
and growing database of simpleton inventors. [You can read the full
story of his work here
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