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How long will it take for 75% of Nigeria to have access to safe drinking water?

The minister of water resources in Nigeria says it will happen by 2015.

But estimates from WHO/UNICEF differ – by 25 years.

Nujood Ali was 10 when she fled her abusive, much older husband and took a taxi to the courthouse in Sanaa, Yemen. The girl’s courageous act — and the landmark legal battle that ensued — turned her into an international heroine for women’s rights. Image by Stephanie Sinclair. Yemen, 2010.

More about child brides.

“If journalism is all about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, why not open my wallet?”

To Pay or Not to Pay, a Reporter’s Dilemma.

A Closer Look at TOMS, from Public Radio International.

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A closer look at TOMS Shoes raises questions: Does it hurt the communities it tries to help? How closely does it work with religious organizations? (Photo: Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS Shoes. From toms.com.)

The company promotes a “buy-one-give-one” business model and says it has provided millions of needy children with footwear.

Reporter Amy Costello investigated TOMS Shoes for a podcast called Tiny Spark – Igniting Debate About the Business of Doing Good. Costello talked to Laura Freschi at New York University’s Development Research Institute, who had this to say about how the company could be hurting some communities:

“I’m concerned that TOMS creates the impression that there are no shoes to be purchased inside of these communities, when in fact there are vibrant local economies. In many of these places where they’re giving shoes, it’s important to acknowledge that in some cases the buy-one-give-one model practiced this way could be harmful to those local producers and sellers.”

Most of America probably now knows that Mike Daisey fabricated sections of his popular one-man play about Apple iPads and his This American Life broadcast. But China’s bloody factories are a problem much bigger than Foxconn, Adam Matthews reports:

“Wang took me on a tour that even [Mike] Daisey couldn’t have dreamed up.”

What resident photographer Jake Naughton packs before a six week reporting trip through Africa.

Kony2012 screened in Northern Uganda — as the film progresses, the crowd’s puzzlement turns to anger and rocks are thrown. Via Al Jazeera English.

Have you seen the Kony2012 video? What did you think?

One Voice, One Thousand Children — A former child soldier tells how he was abducted and conscripted into Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.

After 15 years of waiting, the oceanfront community of Teshie in Accra finally has access to water, shortening the walk for water from miles to yards. 

“The entire project to let people who have been denied water for more than 15 years, it cost us less than 30,000 Ghana Cedis (about $17,200).” -Municipal chief executive Daniel Mensah

But it’s not a complete victory. Water still does not come everyday. Ghana’s water supply system, like many in developing countries, is still full of challenges.

More people die of cancer than from HIV, TB and malaria combined, and two thirds of those deaths are in the developing world. ›

Today we begin a new project on this startling, and almost completely unreported phenomenon, starting in Uganda.