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Somali militant group bans 3 aid agencies (shockingly, all agencies are Christian) (AP)

More about the aid workers killed in Afghanistan (CNN)

Huffington Post is sponsoring three blogs from women leaders in aid. Check out the posts by Melinda Gates on saving children and rotavirus, Mia Farrow on the value of education, and Susan Smith Ellis the CEO of Project (Red) on the expansion of HIV/AIDS treatment

Former Amazon.com senior vice president David Risher wants to give Kindles to schoolchildren in Ghana (HuffPo)

As a side note, I read a bit about the “WorldReader” program and discovered that the communities that qualify for the program will get to choose the books that will come pre-loaded on the Kindles. I was alarmed to discover that WorldReader suggested “Twilight”.

 

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Keena Seyfarth

Keena Seyfarth is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, getting a combination Masters degree in International Health and Humanitarian Assistance at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Development and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. She has lived much of her life in rural Africa, and traveled extensively through southern and eastern Africa. She recently returned from six months in Ethiopia, where she worked for the public hospital system.