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Dawn and Ed started their family by adopting two children. A year later, they adopted a child from an Native Adoption Program and three from Vietnam. Then, two more from DHS and one from India! With a 500 dollar grant from a local club, Dawn started an adoption agency in 1977 to share her knowledge. Today, MAPS helps children worldwide ... from starting an orphanage to building a one-room sch... posted on Jan 11 2003, 788 reads

Doctors Going the Extra Mile
Every year, about 160 Filipino born doctors in California, pack-up and head to the Philippines to provide free medical services, including medication and operations, for the indigent. This year, 160 of them made the trip and saved many lives.... posted on Jan 09 2003, 1,401 reads

Micro-Loan Revolution
In 1974, Professor Yunus took his Economics students in Bangaladesh to a poor village. They interviewed a woman who made bamboo stools, but who made less than a penny per stool because of all the interest she had to pay to the middlemen. So in 1976, he started the Grameen Bank which gave micro-loans to promote economic growth amongst the world's poorest. Today, they have over 2 million borrower... posted on Jan 04 2003, 1,054 reads

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No wonder Santa Claus just seems to go on forever. According to new research out of the University of Michigan, giving can actually help you live longer.... posted on Dec 25 2002, 605 reads

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After attending a training course at the Conflict Transformation Program in Virginia, Cynthia Travis began the Everyday Gandhis project as a media iniative to connect the peace building community.... posted on Dec 14 2002, 1,581 reads

To highlight the good work in South-East Asia, Propoor lists over 14,000 NGOs.... posted on Dec 10 2002, 983 reads