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Student Sergio Mabasso wants to take the agricultural skills he has honed at EARTH University back to his community in Mozambique so his neighbors can feed their families.

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The Value of Freedom

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A self-advocacy group for people with mental disabilities in Kyrgyzstan offers hope within a society that typically stigmatizes them.

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Mauritania has carried out the first prosecutions under its 2007 anti-slavery law. But more needs to be done to manage the unintended consequences of criminalizing a deeply entrenched social phenomemon.

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The obstacles faced by black kids in America go far beyond studying hard and getting straight A's. Grantees of the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement are working hard to address the root causes of inequality.

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In July, the Republic of South Sudan became Africa’s newest independent state. Since then, the Sudanese government in Khartoum has refused to consider the several hundred thousand “southerners” resident in the north—some of them for decades, many of them born there—as citizens of the Republic of Sudan. They are already feeling the harsh effects.

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Poverty in America today is of a staggering scale and becoming more entrenched by the month. My project seeks to tell the stories of impoverished men, women, and children, in a country seemingly unable to come to grips with their collective tragedy.

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