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Blog /// Los Angeles Fights the Obesity Epidemic
September 1, 2011 by The Responsibility Project
Was banning fast food restaurants a step too far? -
Blog /// Hope on a Rope
January 3, 2011 by Andrea Bennett
Some new answers about where your used hotel soap goes. -
Film /// TED Talk: Sugata Mitra
October 20, 2010
These experiments might just revolutionize how we think about teaching.Tags: TED, classrooms, internet, innovation, schools, poverty
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Blog /// Turning Phones into Wallets
October 6, 2010 by Jenara Nerenberg for Fast Company
Delivering mobile financial services to Haitians without bank accounts.Tags: Fast Company, Haiti, innovation, cell phones, poverty, spending
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Reporting /// Upgrading the Slums
September 14, 2010 by Taylor Barnes for The Christian Science Monitor
After seeing Mumbai’s slums bulldozed, Santosh Thorat works to improve them. -
Reporting /// A Restaurant That Teaches
September 14, 2010 by Tibor Krausz for The Christian Science Monitor
In Vietnam, Jimmy Pham trains poor youths in the art of hospitality.Tags: The Christian Science Monitor, Vietnam, restaurants, poverty, hotels, travel, teaching
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Reporting /// Dancing For a Chance
July 27, 2010 by Sara Miller Llana for The Christian Science Monitor
In Colombia, a teacher combats a youth crisis with dance.Tags: The Christian Science Monitor, dance, teachers, poverty, Columbia
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Reporting /// Schools for the Poorest
July 12, 2010 by Jocelyn Wiener for The Christian Science Monitor
One teen’s passion for learning results in a school for India’s disadvantaged.Tags: schools, poverty, India, philanthropy, The Christian Science Monitor
