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That year the Honduran Secretary of Health began a pilot program--partly sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)--to improve the welfare of children by taking care directly to their villages rather than making them travel for it. Alvarado, who had accepted a job with USAID as a childhood-nutrition consultant, argued that it was imperative that the new program include a comprehensive tutorial in food handling, hygiene and meal planning. She put together her curriculum and dispatched teams of health workers into the countryside to teach...
Busi Bhembe, director of the Swaziland Infant Nutrition Action Network, is one Swazi who is trying to change people's attitudes toward AIDS. She leads a pilot program to help Swazis better understand how the disease affects pregnant women and babies. "The more mothers know about the virus and what it can do, the better they can take care of themselves," says Bhembe, 36, who trained in nutrition at the University of Swaziland in Mbabane before entering health management...
Over the next few years, the threesome set up pilot programs in Uganda and Gambia, where with the support of Save the Children and the local governments, they helped acquire motorcycles and train riders and technicians. In Lesotho they built a fleet of 47 bikes that delivered health-care services from 1991 to 1996 without a breakdown. By the end of that period, the Colemans were running Riders for Health as an independent organization and had expanded into Ghana and Zimbabwe, where they introduced a motorcycle-and-sidecar combination that can be used as a mini-ambulance and double...
...though Belew was bursting to teach the boy. "For my sons, flying was just a way to get somewhere," Belew says. But with Rudy, a shy boy, it was different. "Flying brought him out more than anything I ever saw," Belew says. Rudy is now 18 and a licensed pilot...
Your sister is also in your Comedy Central pilot. Yeah, but she plays my sister in that one. In my movie she plays my friend. She's very versatile. She's a real John Malkovich...