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  Success From Newark to Rwanda

  By Caroline Walker | Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:33 AM ET

  (pictured here, at left) started a pen-pal program at the New York public school where she formerly taught, connecting her students with kids in Zimbabwe. When she started teaching at TEAM four years ago, the program continued, this time with added enthusiasm from some students. Things reache Read More

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  Sugar Your Wounds

  By Courtney Rubin | Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:43 PM ET

  it on cuts or bedsores, per a traditional African remedy that’s being tested in English hospitals.Hospital nurse Moses Murandu, 43, grew up in Zimbabwe watching his father put crushed sugar cane on villagers’ wounds. He was surprised when he arrived in England’s Selly Oak Hospital i Read More

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  Helping Zimbabwe's Women Farmers

  By John Casey | Fri Oct 2, 2009 7:18 PM ET

  Aid From People to People, or DAPP, a non-governmental aid group, is bearing fruit, according to an article by Jennifer Dube in The Standard, a Zimbabwean newspaper. Dube spoke to a Tina Zambezi, a widowed farmer in the village of Shamva. Zambezi, age 45, has six children. "Life has change Read More

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  Gambia's 'Riders For Health' Expands

  By John Casey | Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:00 PM ET

  Riders for Health grew out of motorcycle racing, according to the Riders Web site, which says the group is working in three countries: Gambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. "All programs are managed by wholly-African, wholly-professional teams, and not by volunteers or expatriates," the sit Read More

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  Zimbabwe Boosts Textbooks, Education

  By John Casey | Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:16 PM ET

  Assistance Module, according to an article by Millicent Njeri in Corporate Responsibility Africa Limited. “BEAM will ensure that over 700 000 of Zimbabwe’s vulnerable children are in school, creating a huge demand for education,” said UNICEF representative in Zimbabwe, Dr. Peter Salama Read More

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  Knitting Warmth for the Neediest: AIDS Orphans

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:00 PM ET

  The project's goal for 2009 is to create and give away 5,000 blankets, each one created with 40 squares.Two Australian women originally from Zimbabwe, Sandy McDonald and her mother Zanny, a dedicated knitter, started the project last fall. Sandy's aunt, Ronda, lives in South Africa an Read More

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  Matt Damon's Next International Mission

  By Wynter Mitchell | Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:00 PM ET

  and all around nice guy, is on a mission to bring a face to crisis in Africa. This past March, he visited South African border town Musina, where Zimbabwe refugees have fled, on behalf of Not on Our Watch (an organization George Clooney and Brad Pitt are also involved with) while of filming Read More

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  Obama Stirs Africa

  By Jimmy Langman | Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:00 AM ET

  long, bloody line of corrupt tyrants who have sold out their countrymen, with lines such as "The West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade, or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants," and “Africa doesn’t need strongmen, but stron Read More

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  Legend of the Falls - African Lunar Rainbows

  By David Jenison | Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:15 AM ET

  for breathtaking lunar rainbows. Tourist towns naturally developed on each side of the border – Livingstone in Zambia and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe – with enough heart-stopping thrills to bring "Survivor" back to Africa. Along the falls and Zambezi River, the towns offer the world' Read More

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  Sleeping With Elephants

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

  a beast while wading through high grass or the tangle of thorn trees.Professor Justin Seymour-Smith, lifetime owner of a private game reserve in Zimbabwe, is our guide and authority on wildlife behavior. He counsels across the flames: "You never know what a wild animal will do. Meeting yo Read More

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