Professor Muhammad Yunas shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Price with Grameen Bank, an organization in Bangladesh, India which he founded and directs. The Grameen Bank provides microfinance programs that enable poor to lift themselves out of poverty.
Now Professor Yunas is announcing an independent collaboration of Grameen Health with Pfizer, GE HealthCare, and Mayo Clinic to create a sustainable Healthcare delivery model for the developing world. He is looking to help the 4 billion people in the world who make less than $3000 a year. Grameen Health currently has 38 Kalyan clinics.
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May 7th, 2009 | Posted in Amazing People | No Comments
Meet Winnie Barron, the co-founder of the Makindu Children’s Centre along with Dianah Nzomoo, in Makindu, Kenya. The Centre is in rural Eastern Kenya, in a town of 20,000 people between Nairobi and Mombasa.
Winnie Barron, is a physician assistant at Good Samaritan urgent care clinic in Albany, Oregon. Roughly twice a year she takes unpaid leave to work a month in Makindu. She first volunteered in 1994 to help survivors of the Rwandan genocide. She came back to Africa after that and helped at a hospital in Makindu. The orphans she saw living in run-down huts and old cars made her want to help more.
The Makindu Children’s Centre provides nutritional, medical and emotional support, access to basic education, and opportunities for vocational training for over 400 destitute orphan children.
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January 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Amazing People | No Comments
After almost 50 years, a husband and wife team, devoted to educating and teaching universal brotherhood to children, have created world’s largest school in one city. The City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, India has 20 branch campuses in the city of Lucknow and over 35,000 students. CMS was founded in 1959 by Mr. Jagdish Gandhi and his wife Dr. (Mrs.) Bharti Gandhi, M.Ed. Dr. Bharti Gandhi was a child psychologist. The couple were inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
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October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Amazing People | No Comments
Li Quan and her husband have spent millions in the creation of a private reserve to save the South Chinese Tiger. Li has founded “Save China’s Tigers”. Her reserve is based in South Africa in the Karoo region where she is now and breeding the tigers. Because all captive tigers today are linked to six tigers who were captured back in 1956, there is a large problem with inbreading.
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September 13th, 2008 | Posted in Amazing People | No Comments
When Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president of the United States of America, he was a war hero. He had not only fought in, but won, some of the bloodiest battles in United States history. When we Americans voted for him, we thought we were getting a president who was bold, brave and brash, but here are some facts about this famous president that might surprise you.
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July 9th, 2008 | Posted in Amazing Facts | No Comments
Xu Xing, who USA Today has called “China’s real-life Indiana Jones”, uncovered specimens of this most unusal dinosaur in the fossil beds of Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Xu Xing works at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China. In the January 23rd issue of the journal Nature, Xu and his colleagues discuss the possibility that this dinosaur is an early ancestor of birds.
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July 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Amazing Facts | 1 Comment
There is something about ladybugs that makes us smile, and why shouldn’t we enjoy them? They are harmless to people, but are great for pest control. They are small. And the red and black colors are fun and happy. The only downside to ladybugs is their fall migration, during this time, it seems as if there are ladybugs everywhere, and when it comes to ladybugs, there is such a thing as to much of a good thing.
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June 10th, 2008 | Posted in Amazing Facts | No Comments
One of the greatest horror writers of all time wasn’t Stephen King, but rather Edgar Allen Poe. Poe didn’t write long novels but rather short stories that were so chilling that we remember the haunting lines years after we read the tale. Poe’s released his inner demons on paper, and the results are tales like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Cask of Amontillado.
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May 26th, 2008 | Posted in Amazing Facts | No Comments
The first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus has been published revealing clues about genome organization during the early evolution of mammals. “At first glance, the platypus appears as if it was the result of an evolutionary accident,” said Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). “But as weird as this animal looks, its genome sequence is priceless for understanding how fundamental mammalian biological processes have evolved.”
Image courtesy of NHGRI
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May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Amazing Facts | No Comments
Amazingly, there are only three fruits native to North America. Can you name them?
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May 10th, 2008 | Posted in Amazing Facts | 17 Comments
