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Thursday August 21, 2008
Women Helping Women in the Warm Heart of Africa ─ Creating Access to Credit Where There Was None
Posted by: Phil Borges at 5:28PM EST on August 21, 2008

Photographer Phil Borges traveled for two weeks in May to Malawi with colleague filmmaker/photographer Smith Patrick to learn about how women's village savings and loan associations impact families and communities. It was Phil's seventh trip with CARE.

A village savings and loan association is a group of 10-20 members – usually women – who save small sums of money each week to create a fund from which they can access loans. The loans are used to start or expand small businesses, and are repaid with interest. With the income from interest and their individual enterprises, women are able to improve the health, education and well-being of their families.


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Wednesday July 9, 2008
When Giving Life Means Risking Life
Posted by: Rachel Murchison at 2:05PM EST on July 9, 2008

As a young woman not yet initiated into motherhood, I am both excited and frightened by the thought of giving birth.  I can imagine nothing more amazing, and yet I recoil at the thought of labor.  But standing here in Rancho Grande, Nicaragua, I must admit that my fears seem kind of absurd.  After all, if I give birth, I will have the benefits of modern medicine at my fingertips – drugs, experienced doctors and sterile and well-equipped delivery rooms. 

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Friday May 23, 2008
Advocating on Capitol Hill for Better Maternal Health
Posted by: Allen Clinton at 12:16PM EST on May 23, 2008

This past Monday on Capitol Hill I got to attend a press conference with a group of Congress members and supporters.  The purpose of the conference was to highlight the need for U.S. leadership to promote safe motherhood for women around the world and the bi-partisan House Resolution 1022, sponsored by Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA) and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA).

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Thursday April 24, 2008
A Nutty Idea that Just Might Work
Posted by: Laura Bellinger at 2:50PM EST on April 24, 2008

“Extreme poverty can be ended in our lifetime.”

If you believe this, you are:

a) Optimistic bordering on delusional.

b) A rock star with a cause.

c) A liberal policy wonk.

d) A level-headed realist who believes humans have the capacity and creativity to solve tough problems.

Maybe ending poverty isn’t such a nutty idea.

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