The U.S. Peace Corps is arguably one of the greatest success stories in U.S. international development. Low cost, efficient and extensive, the Peace Corps reflects a genuine desire by the U.S. to render assistance to the developing world. This is most clearly articulated by the fact that the staff of...

He calls it "the miracle of the scrap paper."

Asratie Teferra was born in a rural village in northeastern Ethiopia. The home he and his family shared with their farm animals was a one-room grass covered hut, an open fireplace in the center of the room. It was tough...

Tom Warth, the founder of Books For Africa (BFA), has done a lot of unusual things to promote charity and education including walking across Minnesota and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. But nothing has been as important to him as his "African Book Walk: A Hike Across The Gambia to End Their...

South Sudan, Africa's newest nation, has had anything but a peaceful path to independence. Many South Sudanese have never known peace, with the North and the South at war for more than 20 years. Though the civil war ended in 2005, the...

This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction to call attention to the crisis in the Sahel, a region in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 18 million people face starvation and 1.1 million children under the age of 5 are at...