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Childhood Blindness Prevention: Seva Canada Programs in Malawi(1)

November 15, 2011

By Paolo Patruno Seva Canada is a charitable organization providing high-quality, comprehensive eye care services for children and adults in Malawi, as well as 8 other countries in the developing world. For children, congenital and developmental cataracts are the leading causes of blindness. Seva’s Childhood Blindness Program in Malawi is dedicated to reducing childhood blindness [...]

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Fragile: Story of migrants from Bihar working in Calcutta’s largest wholesale market.

By Chhandak Pardhan On the congested road outside Kolay Market- Calcutta’s largest wholesale vegetable market, one often comes across group of well built men in colourful turbans. Wrestling bundles weighing hundreds of kilograms onto the turban-wrapped heads of fellow workers, they deliver bushels of veggies from the trucks and carts outside to the wholesalers. Life [...]

Photo Essay: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

Photo Essay by Alex Palmer  In the summer of 2010 and winter of 2011, Alex Palmer, a Harvard University student, volunteered and conducted research in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kakuma, Kenya. Set in the barren desert of northwestern Kenya near the Sudanese border, Kakuma was established in 1992 to accommodate refugees from across east and [...]

Investing in Women’s Education in Afghanistan

Photo Essay by Suchitra Vijayan. Images from Marefat High School, Dasti-e-barchi, Kabul,  founded by Aziz Royesh  for Afghan refugees in Pakistan in 1994. A Conversation with Aziz Royesh and Orzala Ashraf Nemat, Yale World Fellows Aziz Royesh and Orzala Ashraf Nemat worked close to each other in Pakistan and Afghanistan for many years as leading civil rights [...]


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