A human-powered drill built by a team of BYU engineering students was meant to be inexpensive, easy to operate and easy to move. Field tests in Tanzania have shown the drill does just what it’s supposed to do. Click here for video and story
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While commenting on a Broadway parody of Mormon missionaries who go to Uganda, Michael Otterson, Head of Public Affairs for the Church, documents a record of humanitarian service in Africa. Here are comments from his Washington Post article: “… As I reflected on all that time spent parodying this particular target, I also wondered what
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“Within the tropical forests of southern Uganda, Lincoln Barlow looks over a community wash basin that he and his wife helped build as part of a $250,000 humanitarian effort by the LDS Church to bring cleaner water and better sanitation to Africa.” See: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50983387-78/uganda-church-lds-nearby.html.csp
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See this link: Practicing the Church’s New Fourth-Fold Mission As we near the year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Latter-day Saints are still deeply involved in trying to lend a hand.
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See this story in Mormon Times, Sept 16, 2010 AMERICAN FORK, Utah — Most of the people in Ryan Wilcox’s life already knew he is a devoted father and caring pediatrician. What they didn’t know about is his work as a humanitarian missionary for the LDS Church. …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE — Earthquake survivor Daniel Delva looks past his humble circumstances in Port-Au-Prince and instead chooses to dream about his future. Delva will be studying mechanical engineering this week at Weber State University in Ogden thanks to a foundation of anonymous California- and Utah-based donors who will cover his school expenses. See http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700059604/LDS-Haitian-man-gets-a-2nd-chance-at-education.html
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Play honors life of early African-American Latter-day Saint June 7th, 2010 @ 10:53pm By Carole Mikita SALT LAKE CITY — African-American Latter-day Saints are remembering an important anniversary in their faith and honoring the memory of pioneer Jane Manning James with an up-coming play about her life. … http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=576&sid=11079613 Mormon Times article July 31, 2010
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Stephen Studdert organized the Utah Hospital Task Force, a mostly LDS medical, construction and translating team which went to Haiti after the earthquake to change lives. You can see Meridian’s coverage here. http://www.ldsmag.com/cares/100319major.html
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See what a new member of Pagedale branch in St. Louis did for a family in need: http://knowyourneighbor.typepad.com/knowyourneighbor/2009/12/facebook-santa-team.html
If you have visited the Ikeja General Hospital lately, you would have noticed a blocked drainage that could only have been a breeding place for mosquitoes. This is besides some discarded items at the back of Ayinke ward that left the hospital looking unkempt. Thankfully this unhealthy eyesore has disappeared since a three-hour sanitation exercise
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