"The pain is excruciating," said Simon Bush of Sightsavers. "People tell me it's like sandpaper scratching over your eye every time you blink."
The Educate GirlsDIB, which kicked off in 2015, was one of the first development impact bonds launched. The new model was the result of some in the aid community looking to find new financing tools that could reduce risk to donors and have the potential to bring in private investors.
The Bail Project
During the era of slavery, Black churches, families and communities would join together to purchase the freedom of their loved ones. A look at how bail funds are a modern adaptation of that idea.
Raj Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a mobile platform for training health care workers remotely through video and audio instruction.
Governors often say their most important job is expanding economic opportunity for all. This year, 36 states will hold gubernatorial elections, and you can be sure every single candidate will run on their plans to make the American dream attainable.
The Environmental Defense Fund is planning to build and launch a satellite that would look for industrial methane leaks and identify them with pinpoint accuracy.
See how technology is transforming life for community health workers like Serena and Prince -- and how TED's new initiative, The Audacious Project, is amplifying their impact.
GirlTrek is a nonprofit dedicated to improving Black women’s health though walking. Recently, 10 women walked 100 from Maryland to Delaware to pay tribute to Harriet Tubman. The journey ended on Harriet Tubman Day.
In the last 10 years, a small charity called the Bronx Freedom Fund has donated bail money to thousands of poor New Yorkers charged with crimes. Now, after a decade in operation, the founder of the Freedom Fund is set to announce a new and unprecedented effort.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Some are longer than a blue whale. Others are barely larger than a grain of sand. One species unleashes one of the most deadly venoms on earth; another holds a secret that’s behind some of the greatest breakthroughs in biology. They’ve inhabited the ocean for at least half a billion years, and they’re still flourishing. David Gruber investigates the secret powers of jellyfish.
CAMFED
When terrorists in Nigeria organized a secret attack last month, they didn’t target an army barracks, a police department or a drone base. No, Boko Haram militants attacked what is even scarier to a fanatic: a girls’ school.
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