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Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor programme with Israel’s juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical professionals, Mitchell Besser enlisted the help of his patients to create mothers2mothers, an extraordinary network of HIV-positive women whose support for each other is changing and saving lives.
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“The Foundation is dedicated to combating childhood obesity by changing the way our children understand, appreciate and eat their food, and by educating and mobilising the community to provide healthier dietary habits for children. They have developed a comprehensive experiential learning programme that makes healthy food fun, and they work to make healthy food available […]
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“Is a mentoring programme offering comprehensive support for HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers. Mentor mother Monoang Mohakala said, “in short, we see in them our input and they are HEROES in our lives.” Preventing the transmission of HIV from a mother to a child is a straightforward medical procedure. Its simplest application, a single […]
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On my first day at Primary School I was chosen for the Infants Choir, I was five years old but I remember it as if it was yesterday. My teacher was Jean Millett who taught Primer 1 at Terrace School in my home town of Waipukurau in Central Hawkes Bay. I credit her (along with
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