In Nigeria, a University affiliated NGO, has embarked on a project to train 10,000 children in Southwestern Nigeria on how to build robots!
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If you want to have a REAL scare this Halloween, check out our list of the most SHOCKING global poverty facts that we're willing to bet you didn't know.
The new movie Suffragette tells the story of the vote for women in the UK – but what are the big global issues in the quest for gender equality today? We run through the biggest present-day challenges to Global Goal number 5.
Every year, the Tech Awards recognises individuals and organisations that are creating innovations that make the world a better place. Some of these technologies are completely new inventions, and others are innovative uses of existing technologies. Here are 10 of the best.
More than 30% of clinics and hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa, serving approximately 255 million people, are without electricity. Here's six specific ways lack of electricity can affect patients, doctors and nurses in clinics and hospitals.
David and Zipporah don’t have electricity, but they do have solar lights. They bought their first Sun King Pro solar light in 2013. Now, with the lights, David and Zipporah can allocate the shillings they previously spent on kerosene for light on school fees for their four children.
In the 58 years since independence, periods of peace in Sudan have been brief. Today there are new violent clashes unfolding in South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011. While parties meet to discuss a peaceful resolution, this is the story of one man changed forever by the previous civil war, which lasted 22 years and claimed 2 million lives.
Gabriel Bol Deng vividly remembers the first thing he ate when he was in the United States. It was...