Mozambique News

Mozambique News.

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  AIDS Orphan Becomes A Filmmaker With Help From Hollywood Heavyweights

  By Wynter Mitchell | Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:55 AM ET

  but it's a passion project shepherded by the successful showrunner that he really wants to place center stage.Baer has thrown his weight behind "Mozambique," a documentary that follows one youngster's quest to find a new family. Created by finalist Alcides Soares, a teenage African AID Read More

  More like this in: Non-Profit, Hollywood, AIDS, Photography, NBC, Entertainment, Movies, TV
• Pumping Water With Kids' Energy

  By John Casey | Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:02 AM ET

  to power water pumps where energy is scarce. According to Gizmag.com, "more than 1,000 such pumps have been installed in schools in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia, providing easy access to clean drinking water for the local community."The device can pump as many as 1,400 liter Read More

  More like this in: Children, Non-Profit, Schools, South Africa, Drinking Water, Drinking, Zambia, Playgrounds
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  Sleeping With Elephants

  By Richard Bangs | Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:00 AM ET

  companions."Exhausted from our aggressive wanderings that had taken us from the secluded Busanga Plains in the west to this hidden preserve on the Mozambique border, I announce an early retirement. Before the professor has finished his dissertation, I toddle to my little North Face Lunarshi Read More

  More like this in: Travel, Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Conversation, Tanzania, Elephants, Zambia, Zimbabwe, PBS, Richard Bangs
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  Normal Guy... Extraordinary Vision

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  exactly did a Manhattan orthodontist make all this amazing work happen?
 It all started in 2003 when Andolino traveled to a small village near Mozambique as part of a dental outreach program. While hiking part of Mt. Kilimanjaro during a break he met a fellow volunteer named Rob Place. Plac Read More

  More like this in: Health, New York, Non-Profit, Business, Africa, AIDS, Unemployment, Kenya, fundraising, Drinking Water, Healthcare, Deforestation
• Kiwis Make Historic Biofuel Flight

  By Sebastian Clayton | Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:04 PM ET

  Air New Zealand's biofuel was made from jatropha nuts, which are up to 40 percent oil, and is harvested from trees grown on marginal land in India, Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania. Some environmentalists have expressed concern that for even jatropha to be produced on comercial scales, much mor Read More

  More like this in: Travel, India, Emissions, Mexico, New Zealand, Biofuel, Tanzania, Malawi, Air Travel, Gulf of Mexico, Continental Airlines