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World Toilet Day November 19th

Gary White | Posted 11.15.2012 | Impact
Read More: Awareness, World, Dignity, Children, Solutions, Toilets, Treatable Disease, Avoidable Deaths, water.org, Haiti, Sanitation, Social, White, Water, Disease, Voice, India, Latrines, Kenya, Damon, Safe Water, World Toilet Day, World Toilet Day 2012, Clean Water, Video, Advocacy, Impact News
Gary White

How much do you know about the water and sanitation crisis? Take a short quiz with Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org, to find out.

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Why Your Brilliant Child Didn't Get Into The Ivies

J.D. Rothman | Posted 06.03.2012 | Parents
Read More: College Admissions, Fieldston, Greenwich, Humor, College Admissions Craze, Ivy League, Outward Bound, Latrines, Stanford, Mit, Parents News
J.D. Rothman

These new Ivy rejects are far from slackers. They're incredible kids with impressive resumes -- 2,350+ SATs, straight As in their 16 APs, debate champions, flute soloists and MVPs.

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The Four R's: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic... and Restrooms

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Room to Read, Foreign Aid, UN Foundation, United Nations, Kiva, Sanitation, Shell Oil, Philanthropy, Clinton Global Initiative, Mdgs, Morgan Stanley, Care, Diarrhea, Water, Africa, The African Leadership Academy, Hillary Clinton, Latrines, Unicef, Impact News
Jonathan Greenblatt

Sanitation is a basic need that could enable a new destiny for billions of people and it is time to apply the same degree of innovation and ingenuity to this problem that has been brought to bear in other fields.

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Pit Latrines: The World's Dirty Not-So-Little Secret

Anneli Rufus | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Pit Latrines, Vacutug, Toilets, Latrines, Feces, World News
Anneli Rufus

The transportation of human fecal matter is a worthwhile investment opportunity, according to World Bank officials.

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