Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:43
Residents of Kenya struggle with meeting basic, simple needs such as shelter, water, food, and clothing. Abandoned and neglected children spend their lives surviving in poverty, roaming rural areas and urban slums. Some spend their time in the landfills, scrounging for food scraps with animals.
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There is much to do in the country of Myanmar. As of 2008, the Government of Myanmar spent a mere 0.3% of its gross domestic product on health care. This is the lowest amount of GDP allocated to health care worldwide. Furthermore, outside aid for Myanmar is the second lowest per capital worldwide.1
Good Neighbors is hard at work to impact and reverse the conditions in Myanmar. Our presence in Myanmar is felt in the areas of education, health care and skill development. We believe that educational success of the children rests squarely on the provision of health care.
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"Good Neighbors: Characters" will introduce a staff member from one of the international Good Neighbors offices across the world every other week. This week, GN:C focuses on Lilian Lopez, Manager of the Sponsorship Services Department at our Good Neighbors Guatemala field office, who recently returned from a Good Neighbors conference in Nepal.
Read more...Wednesday, 08 July 2009 16:06
Tuesday, 07 July 2009 15:43 Meet The New Director of Good Neighbors Ethiopia 
Bangladesh is the seventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated. The majority of the population still works in the agricultural sector, which makes up almost a quarter of the country’s annual export revenue. A number of problems stand in the way of the country’s economic recovery, which include corruption, prevalent poverty, and susceptibility to sudden climate changes. Because of these varied problems, a variety of organizations, including Good Neighbors, have been at work in Bangladesh for years to improve education rates and the overall economic stability of the country.
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Sixteen years after beginning work with Ethiopia, Good Neighbors welcomes its first local staff country director, Wondwossen Adem Yimer. With his experience in administration and his admirable vision for GN Ethiopia, Mr. Yimer is just the person for the job.
- Good Neighbors Reacts to the Natural Disasters in Guatemala
- Volunteer's Spotlight: Joanne Lee
- Volunteer's Spotlight: Hannah Gweun
- Building Wells of Hope in Chad
- Homeless Haiti refugee total 1.2 million
- Deploying third medical team to Haiti
- Help us, my baby is sick…
- Good Neighbors Deploys Medical Team to Haiti
- New hope grows from despair, preparing Haiti reconstruction
- The First Wave of Relief for Haitians in Excluded Regions
- Good Neighbors delivered food and water in excluded region
- Father and daughter heading to Haiti together
- Haiti, in desperate need of help from medical field
- Full scale emergency relief is imminent
- Embark on Haiti Emergency Relief
- My Journey to Guatemala