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...Inspired by his online accomplishment, Matador flew to Africa the following year to help unload aid containers in Swaziland and volunteer in a feeding center for orphans in Lesotho. "It was the only meal they were going to have that day," he says. Back in Canada, he collects and refurbishes laptops for donation and recently helped raise $7,500 for a Ghanaian orphanage. "I learned you don't need to save the whole world," he says. "You just need to do one little thing...
...faculty members from the Medical School traveled to Haiti on Wednesday, joining the staff of Partners In Health—a non-profit Harvard affiliate—in providing aid to the residents of the mountainous Central Plateau through its non-governmental health clinics...
...hope it awakens Americans and the world to a fixable problem,” Arbuthnott said. “The people there are very strong-willed, but you can’t just provide aid and walk away...
Transfer candidates will have until March 15 to complete their applications, and admissions decisions will be made by June 1, according to Rotner, who affirmed that Harvard’s financial aid policies will apply to incoming transfer students...
...While the shootings were the apparent spark of the riots, the global economic downturn was a more distant cause. With budgets tightening, the E.U. cut its aid to southern Italian farmers, reducing the need for manual labor. "The Mafia wants to earn the same profits, and the workers are becoming a burden," Saviano says. Authorities have also turned a blind eye to their problems. Rather than increase social services or workplace regulations, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's administration has taken an increasingly popular anti-immigrant stance. About 1,000 of the African migrants in Rosarno were carted off to detention...