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Category: Africa

Jimmy Carter vs Guinea Worm

Posted on April 7, 2010 (February 20, 2023) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Agents for Change, Global Health, Religion & Ethics, Water & Sanitation, World LeadersTagged Global Health, Guinea Worm, Jimmy Carter, medicine, Parasite, South Sudan, The Carter Center, Water, Worm

Clean Water is Never a Given

Posted on March 18, 2010 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Development, Environment & Climate, Global Health, Water & Sanitation, Women & GirlsTagged Clean Water, Development, Ethiopia, NGO, Social Entrepreneurship, Water, water access, Water Action, Wells

Consequences of Drought

Posted on March 6, 2010 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Disaster Relief, Environment & Climate, Food Security, Global HealthTagged Africa, Doctors Without Borders, Drought, Famine, Food Security, Global Health, Hunger, Sudan, Violence

Tensions with Egypt’s Coptics

Posted on March 4, 2010 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Middle East, Religion & EthicsTagged Christianity, Coptic, Coptic Christian, Egypt, Faith, Islam, Muslim, Religion, Religion and Ethics, Violence

Egypt’s Trash City

Posted on February 16, 2010 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Middle East, Water & SanitationTagged Cairo, Environment, Recycling, Social Entrepreneurship, Trash City, waste management, Zabaleen

Two Faiths Combine

Posted on May 26, 2009 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Religion & EthicsTagged Chrislam, Christianity, Faith, Interfaith, Islam, Nigeria, Religion and Ethics, Tolerance

Feeding Nigeria

Posted on April 15, 2009 (August 27, 2020) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

In the first of a series of reports about food security, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how the efforts to improve Nigeria’s food supply are hindered by scarcity of water and high supply costs. Click here to watch the video » […]

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Posted in AfricaTagged Development, Economy, Environment, Famine, Food Security, Nigeria, Starvation, Water

Curbing Polio in Nigeria

Posted on April 13, 2009 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Global Health, Infectious DiseaseTagged Global Health, Infectious Disease, medicine, Nigeria, Polio, Rotary International, Vaccination, Vaccine

An Indiana Doctor in Kenya

Posted on December 5, 2008 (June 19, 2019) by Simeon Lancaster

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Posted in Africa, Agents for Change, Global Health, Religion & EthicsTagged AIDS, Armstrong, charity, Church, Clinic, Election, Faith, Global Health, HIV, Indiana, Joseph Okuya, Kenya, medicine, North United Methodist Church, Philanthropy, politics, Religion

The Barefoot College: Teaching Women Solar

Posted on October 6, 2008 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Agents for Change, India, Sustainability, Technology, Women & GirlsTagged Barefoot College, Development, education, energy, Environment, India, Poverty, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Experiment, Solar, Solar Power, Technology, Training

Pediatric AIDS Corps

Posted on July 17, 2008 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Agents for Change, Global Health, Infectious Disease, USTagged AIDS, America, Children, Development, Global Health, HIV, Infectious Disease, Malawi, Pediatric AIDS, Religion and Ethics, Social Entrepreneurship, USAID

Fighting Famine: Cash or Crops?

Posted on May 2, 2008 (June 19, 2019) by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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Posted in Africa, Food Security, Global Health, USTagged Agriculture, charity, Crops, Development, education, Food Aid, Food for Peace, Food Security, Foreign Aid, Global Trade, Maize, Malawi, relief, Soy, USAID, World Food Programme

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