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37 Success Stories matched your search for South Africa

1) 

Emerging Farmers Produce Premium Cheese - 2005
During a reception held at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in South Africa, Land O'Lakes had a chanc ...more

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Fighting White Collar Crime in South Africa - 2005
By her second year in law school Glynnis Breytenbach knew she wanted to be a prosecutor. A sturdy da ...more

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Study Findings Help Improve HIV/AIDS Services - 2005
A study of 98 provincial health facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is helping improve HIV/AI ...more

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Protecting Children and their Families from Violence and Abuse - 2004
Dr. V.B. Mohomed works miracles from the tiny room that is her office, her examination room and many ...more

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Shared Learning Fosters Stronger Local Government - 2004
In Syanda District Municipality, land has been redistributed to communities from whom it was taken d ...more

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Providing a Society with the Tools to Participate - 2004
At a small round table in a Durban courtyard, three young advocates tell different tales of struggle ...more

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Women Court Workers Breaking Cycle of Violence in South Africa - 2004
Tanya sits in a circle with 16 soft-spoken female colleagues, tears rolling down her cheeks. She rec ...more

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A Nonprofit Sector Able to Thrive in South Africa - 2004
With support from USAID, the
Nonprofit Partnership (NPP), a S ...more

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Liberating Children From Crime - 2004
All nine teenage graduates beamed proud smiles at their special graduation ceremony in a Johannesbur ...more

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Helping Disadvantaged Law Graduates Become Practicing Lawyers - 2004
When walking into new lawyer Praveena Sukhraj’s office, you can’t miss the smile on her ...more

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Finding the Lost Generation - 2004
Many of the current members of Parliament were on the streets or in exile during the 80s when " ...more

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Confronting the Scourge of Domestic Violence and Rape - 2004
Konani Malaba tosses a ball in a small room. A mural of popular cartoon characters watches over he ...more

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Decentralized CourtSupport Services Model Embraces Human Potential - 2004
One would never guess that South Africa’s “Big Five” game animals are playing a ro ...more

14) 

Strengthening Community Capacity to Fight HIV/AIDS - 2004
Pat Richey is HIV/AIDS coordinator for Kokstad Municipality in South Africa. Thirty percent of the e ...more

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Seamless Partnerships Between Government and Civil Society - 2004
At the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable Development, the South African Civil Society W ...more

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An Innovative Project to Protect Child Witnesses in the Court Room - 2004
Lawyer and researcher, Dr. Karen Muller, has devoted her career to the thousands of child witnesses ...more

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Sowing Seeds of Participation with the Young - 2004
With the end of apartheid the South African government created participatory structures that place ...more

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Achieving Nonfinancial Accountability Standards in South Africa - 2004
Joe Mohlakane manages a Mogale City Municipality development project that is producing cut flowers ...more

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Strengthening Access to Government Services at the Closest Point to Communities - 2004
Every moment Joliswa Jebe is away from the municipality where she is a ward counsel member assistant ...more

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Reducing Violence and Increasing Justice - 2003
USAID supports a range of activities in one of South Africa's poorest regions-the former Venda h ...more

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Enabling Charitable Support for South Africa's Disabled - 2003
Tax incentives for donations to charities in South Africa did not exist before the year 2000. US ...more

22) 

Lessons in Life through Science and Technology - 2003
South African science teacher, Nomvula Tsehla, stays after school nearly every day. But she does not ...more

23) 

Education Improves For Teachers and Students-District Development Support Program - 2003
Overlooking the Indian Ocean on South Africa's eastern seaboard, the sub-tropical province of Kw ...more

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Ikhwelo and Abet have made Everything Better - 2003
Thabitha Mogosoana is 39 years old, unemployed and a widowed mother of four children. While grow ...more

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In His Own Words: A Story from one of the Students in the Eastern Cape, By M.S. Paya - 2003
Ikhwelo is one of the projects in the Eastern Cape that focuses on agriculture and small, medium ...more

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Elderly South Africans Earn Money from their Land - 2003
A group of elderly South Africans can feed and support themselves like never before after USAID ...more

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USAID Scholar becomes South African Ambassador - 2003
Basu Sangqu considers meeting former South African President, Nelson Mandela, one of the most ex ...more

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Home Sweet Home, At Last: South African Family Moves into Brick Home after Living in Shacks for 50 Years - 2003
Mandisa Dlanjwa's beautiful new brick house is the envy of her neighbors. She used a loan from t ...more

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Public/Private Partnership Brings Cleaner and Better Power to Johannesburg's Residents - 2003
The Kelvin Power Plant, servicing 1 million Johannesburg residents, was operating at a significa ...more

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Saving The Planet Is Child's Play: South African Sixth Graders Tackle Climate Change - 2003
Elementary school children across South Africa have shown that saving our planet is child's play ...more

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South African Grandmother Adopts AIDS Orphans - 2003
Mpho never told her mother she was HIV positive. Granny Nono wondered why her 32-year-old daught ...more

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Beauty in the Unsightly Land of TB and HIV - 2003
Patients visiting the Empilweni Clinic in Duncan Village, a township in South Africa's Eastern C ...more

33) 

Where there are no Pharmacists - 2003
Nozodwa Jonginamba, pharmacist assistant and supervisor of the pharmacy store room at Rietvlei H ...more

34) 

Clinical Training: Tools with a Twist - 2003
Historically, rural clinics such as Meje, located in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, had l ...more

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Black-Driven Economic Empowerment in South Africa's Motor Industry - 2003
Entrepreneur Creates Jobs and Inspires his Nation
South African entrepreneur, Mthembeni Mkhize, ...more

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Unemployed Mother of Three Promoted to Factory Supervisor - 2003
Orelia Kekana never thought she-a poorly educated black woman-would be part of a progressive int ...more

37) 

Rainbow Nation Sows Seeds of Hope and Changes the Face of Farming - 2003
Once a brewery worker, Felix Mtwa now raises cattle for a living on his own farm. He is part of ...more


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