Educate a girl. My grand prize winner is Camfed (originally called the Campaign for Female Education), which helps girls in African countries get an education.
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"Most other longtime democracies have much shorter lags between an election and the transfer of power. In Britain, a new government usually takes office the next day. In Canada, France, India and Japan, it happens within a few weeks. "In the four months between Franklin Roosevelt's election and his 1933 inauguration, much of the world descended into chaos. Adolf Hitler took power in Germany, and the Reichstag - the Parliament building - burned. Japan quit the League of Nations. In the U.S., hundreds of banks shut down. Lynchings surged in the South. "The country, numb and nearly broken, anxiously awaited deliverance," as David Kennedy wrote in his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the era." "
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"Civil servants, elected officials and judges did their jobs and protected democracy. By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist"
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Send a young person to college. Another prize winner is OneGoal, which mentors low-income students in the United States, helping them graduate from high school and succeed in college. OneGoal ensures that Black lives matter: 96 percent of participants are students of color, and it provides a bridge for them to complete high school and get a solid start in college.
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Restore a person’s sight. My final prize winner is the Himalayan Cataract Project, also known as Cure Blindness, which fights blindness in Asia and Africa. This, too, is a bargain: The surgery can cost as little as $25 per person, or $50 for both eyes.The Himalayan Cataract Project was founded by Dr. Sanduk Ruit, a Nepali ophthalmologist who helped develop a cataract microsurgery technique (the “Nepal method”), and Dr. Geoff Tabin of Stanford University Medical School
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"Educate a girl. Send a young person to college. Restore a person's sight. By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist"
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List of top false info stories circulating before election
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felt as if he walked on sacred ground” with “emotions that I cannot describe.”1 Throughout the eighteenth century, colonists had developed significant emotional ties with both the British monarchy an
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ew governments. The revolution created politicians eager to foster republican selflessness and protect the public good but also
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Ballotpedia defined wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in the last 100 years resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party. U.S. Senate waves from 1918 to 2016 are listed in the table below.
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Battleground elections
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Ballotpedia has identified 16 races as general election battlegrounds. Of the 16 seats, four have Democratic incumbents and 12 have Republican incumbents heading into the election.
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Wave Elections, 1918-2016
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