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What does Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Qatar and Slovenia have in common with the USA? … the same life expectancy.
With all the advances in American medical technology, 29 countries rank ahead of the USA in average life expectancy according to 2006 data by the World Health Organization (WHO). Japan tops the list with an [...]

The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) is a New York-based nonprofit that currently works in 15 priority countries in Africa and Asia to eliminate blinding trachoma, which is the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness. Nearly 10 million people worldwide are visually impaired or blind because of trachoma and over 63 million people have the active [...]

SEED is a non-profit education based program that empowers Schlumberger employee-volunteers and educators (teachers, parents and mentors) to share their passion for learning and science with students, aged 10-18, in underserved communities around the world.
The mission is to inspire, influence and enable educators in underserved communities to engage in youth in science and technology by building [...]

The Cafe Femenino Foundation (CFF), based in Vancouver, Washington, is a nonprofit with a mission to improve the lives of women and children in coffee producing communities around the world.
The story of CFF began in 2004 in Northern Peru with the first gathering of Women Coffee Producers came up with the idea to improve their [...]

Which countries worldwide are the leaders in internet censorship for their citizens?
Looking at the filtering and censorship of political, social, conflict/security and internet tools, the OpenNet Initiative determined that the people of Iran, China, and Burma (Myanmar) have very little open access to internet websites. The governments in those countries filter out websites on all [...]

Where are the world’s most powerful supercomputers located? The latest June 2008 version of the TOP500 supercomputers includes the first ever supercomputer to reach a peak performance of more than 1 petaflop/s (one quadrillion floating point operations per second). The Number 1 ranked system, named ’Roadrunner’, was built by IBM for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos [...]

The Save Darfur Coalition, founded in 2004, is an alliance of over 180 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations that are united together to help the people of Darfur, Africa. The Coalition’s member organizations represent 130 million people of all ages, races, religions and political affiliations.
Save Darfur uses media outreach, public education, coalition building and grassroots [...]

Winrock International is an American nonprofit that works worldwide to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity and sustain natural resources by linking local individuals and communities with new ideas and technology. Winrock, founded in 1985, works in more than 65 countries, including the regions of Asia, Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the new [...]