Archive for March, 2009

  • Nepal: On the Threshold of Change

    Nepal: On the Threshold of Change

    Kathmandu | This spring around 350,000 boys and girls are on the threshold of clearing what Nepalese call the “Iron Gate” – graduating from high school.  That’s a 10 percent […]

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  • Romania: A Doctor in the Family

    Romania: A Doctor in the Family

    CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania | Watching an older brother slowly recover from a serious car crash a few years ago, Alina Calin, then a teenager, gradually realized she wanted nothing more than […]

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  • Outdoor school in Kuita, Angola. Photo by Rafaela Printes. Creative Commons licensed.

    Angola: Slow Recovery

    LUANDA, Angola | Any discussion of the education sector in Angola cannot avoid the devastation wrought by over 25 years of civil war.  At the height of the Cold War […]

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