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Watch: These City Buses Are Now Showers for the Homeless in San FranciscoWatch how Lava Mae is turning retired muni buses in San Francisco into showers on wheels to provide hygiene, dignity and hope to the homeless. Watch…Oct 2015 -
SELF Magazine Spotlights How 25-Year Old Grace Garey is Making a Difference in Health CareBy the time she graduated from college, Grace Garey, now 25, had worked in a Liberian refugee camp and helped coordinate emergency response for war-torn…Oct 2015 -
Vineet Singal Featured in NYT Magazine as One of Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the WorldIn our confusing health care system, ‘‘patient’s rights’’ can seem like an empty promise. But 25-year-old Vineet Singal’s nonprofit enterprise, CareMessage, is trying to change…Oct 2015 -
Saving Lives on the Dangerous Roads of IndiaA tragedy spurred Piyush Tewari, founder and CEO of SaveLIFE Foundation, to examine road-accident deaths in India. What he found was shocking: the country has…Sep 2015 -
A Millennial Named BushBarbara Bush joined her father, George W. Bush, on a 2003 trip to Africa and was staggered by the human toll of AIDS in Uganda.…Sep 2015 -
Meet the Non-MDs Solving Systemic Heath Care Problems for Global Health CorpsGlobal Health Corps just sent its latest cohort of fellows to their yearlong posts developing health and social justice solutions in places like Zambia, Malawi…Sep 2015 -
13 Badass Moms Who Are Saving the WorldTalk about a game changer: Krista designs and brings medical technologies to low income populations—and is saving lives in the process. As CEO of the…Sep 2015 -
For Teens in Crisis, the Next Text Could Be a LifesaverResearchers are excited about Crisis Text Line. “Young people have been reluctant to use crisis services,” observes Anthony Pisani, a suicide prevention researcher at the University…Sep 2015 -
Lava Mae Providing Showers for the Homeless is Rolling AlongLava Mae, the nonprofit that turns old Muni buses into shower stalls to be used by homeless people in San Francisco, has its second bus…Sep 2015