• Health

    Good health is the foundation of a good life. Find out what’s being done to improve health outcomes in new and innovative ways.

  • Taking Flight

    Taking Flight

    Health | June 9, 2011

    Raising Global Awareness from the Skies - Australian pilot Ken Evers first saw how..

  • Living Rise

    People around the world are living Rise every day - accepting no limits, thinking alternatively, and driving positive change. Do you know someone whose story should be shared, or an organization whose work should be recognized?

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  • Niramaya Charitable Trust: A Vision for the Corneal Blind

    Niramaya Charitable Trust: A Vision for the Corneal Blind

    Health | April 26, 2012

    Imagine never being able to delight in the rich colors...

  • The Mercado Mayapan: Preserving Culture and Tradition

    The Mercado Mayapan: Preserving Culture and Tradition

    Health | November 1, 2011

    The Mercado serves a neighborhood that has been through hard times. The Chamizal, as the neighborhood is known, never recovered from the shift of the clothing factories to Mexico (and later China) with the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. Many of the women who worked in the industry lost their jobs and families are still struggling.

  • WaterWalla: Making clean water a profitable enterprise for slum dwellers

    WaterWalla: Making clean water a profitable enterprise for slum dwellers

    Health | February 14, 2012

    “This [water] crisis claims more lives through disease than any...

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