Posted by Jennifer Vettel | Oct 22, 2009 | 3 Comments
In the world, over one billion people live without access to clean water resources. These people have extremely large death rates to completely preventable, waterborne illnesses. It is estimated that over two million people die every year from preventable waterborne diseases, and a large percentage of those people are children under the age of five. [...]
Posted by Kristin Francoz | May 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
We’ve all heard about the horrors of the genocide in Darfur, followed Nicholas Kristof’s evangelical Op-Eds, and seen the benefit concerts to raise money towards the cause. Perhaps some know too of the ethnic differences tinting much of the clash, know the history of relations between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.
But few know [...]
Posted by Meghna Bhattacharjee | Mar 30, 2009 | 1 Comments
For centuries tribal people in the Omo River Valley of Ethiopia have been content to live according the flood cycle of the river. In recent years, a certain development has caused much blood to be spilled over territorial claims on the river. Automatic weapons are now in the hands of almost every male in the [...]
