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1 week ago | 
npr.org | Marc Silver
Angeline Murimirwa of Zimbabwe has really racked up kudos for her work as head of CAMFED, a charity that has enabled millions of girls in five African countries to stay in school — and thrive with the help of mentors. Murimirwa is one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2025. Above: She accepts an award at Rihanna's 3rd Annual Diamond Ball in 2017.
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2 weeks ago | 
opb.org | Gabrielle Emanuel |Marc Silver
Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. Has the "ready-to-use therapeutic food" — credited with an 80 to 90% recovery rate among malnourished children — been caught up in the U.S. aid cuts? Fatima Jubril lost her husband when the militant group Boko Haram attacked their farm in northeast Nigeria last September.
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2 weeks ago | 
gpb.org | Marc Silver
I don't mean to humble brag, but I am on a first name basis with one of the most influential people in the world (according to the new list from Time magazine). It's not Serena Williams. It's not Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. It's Angeline Murimirwa, who goes by "Angie."I interviewed Angie back in 2018 in a pub in Oxford. We were attending the Skoll World Forum - a yearly gathering of social activists and advocates. She was then Africa director of CAMFED - the Campaign for Female Education).
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Matt Ozug |Juana Summers |Sarah Handel |Marc Silver
Salt-less Jamaican soup a 'transformational' experience Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5347677/nx-s1-5410005-1" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> NPR's Juana Summers talks with Genevieve Villamora about adapting healing soup recipes from around the world with ingredients commonly available in the U.S. Sponsor Message
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1 month ago | 
kuow.org | Matt Ozug |Juana Summers |Sarah Handel |Marc Silver
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Genevieve Villamora about adapting healing soup recipes from around the world with ingredients commonly available in the U.S.
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1 month ago | 
wfdd.org | Neda Ulaby |Marc Silver |Laurel Wamsley
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1 month ago | 
opb.org | Marc Silver
The boy and bird are, of course, not really flying together. But ... they are both airborne. The child is jumping into the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand, during a heatwave in February 2024. Photographer Andre Malerba notes: "This image recalls the free feeling of leaping from several times one's height into water to escape the heat as friends laugh and cheer you on. A time many of us might remember as when we felt truly whole and at peace, even if life wasn't perfect.
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1 month ago | 
wgbh.org | Marc Silver
March 20, 2025 What’s the appropriate greeting for the International Day of Happiness? Happy Happiness Day? Have a happy day of happiness? Happy happy to ya? You may think this is a frivolous question, but today — March 20 — is in fact International Day of Happiness. Declared by the United Nations in 2013, this special day recognizes the importance of happiness as “a fundamental goal” in people’s lives around the world. “It’s a day to be happy, of course!” the U.N. offers.
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1 month ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Marc Silver
What's the appropriate greeting for the International Day of Happiness? Happy Happiness Day? Have a happy day of happiness? Happy happy to ya? You may think this is a frivolous question, but today — March 20 — is in fact International Day of Happiness. Declared by the United Nations in 2013, this special day recognizes the importance of happiness as "a fundamental goal" in people's lives around the world. "It's a day to be happy, of course!" the U.N. offers.
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2 months ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Marc Silver
I remember my reaction when my wife called me at work to say a radiologist looked at her mammogram results and said: "Sure looks like cancer to me."I stupidly said, "Ew, that doesn't sound good." We talked about logistics: What to do next, when to tell our kids. Then I said, "See you tonight." Hung up the phone. And stayed at work all day. Yeah, definitely not a stellar response.
