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Access to safe water is a universal right. Yet, it is far from being a reality. As part of the United Nations’ World Water Day on March 22, UNICEF France created with the French Swimming Federation “La Nuit de l’Eau” (Water Night): 230 swimming pools nationwide are holding water sports events and other fun activities Saturday in an effort to raise awareness (and funds) for water access programs in Haiti. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/V_7J6vD45O8 expand=1] UNICEF France’s 2019 Nuit de l’Eau for children in Haiti — ©Marco Dormino/UNICEF/OneShot OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph […]
An estimated 2.3 billion people worldwide live without toilets. Nearly two-thirds of them are in India. Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, a sociologist and NGO founder, is determined to do something about it.
Health and medicine were constant themes of the famed Colombian novelist. He also spent his life trying to understand how the human brain works, and why the memory breaks down…until he himself was afflicted by Alzheimer’s.
EL NUEVO HERALD (Cuba), CLARIN (Argentina) Worlcrunch HAVANA – After remaining cholera-free for more than a century, Cuba is suffering its second bout of cholera in six months. The disease has infected more than 50 people in Havana, the government admitted, and, according to non-confirmed information, one death. In July, three people died of cholera […]