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Sara Herschander

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What to do when every crisis needs your $20

Cori Jackson — a single mom living in Indiana — took in her two young nieces to keep them out of foster care this summer. It hasn’t been easy. ...

09.10.2025 4

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Sara Herschander

The world’s biggest back-to-school crisis

It’s back-to-school season and across the US, the aroma of freshly sharpened pencils, pumpkin spice everything, and ultra-processed pizza lunches is...

10.09.2025 10

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Sara Herschander

The US stopped showing up to disasters. The results are horrifying.

By the time the earthquake struck, flattening mud-brick homes across Afghanistan’s eastern mountains last week, many nearby health clinics had...

09.09.2025 10

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Sara Herschander

Botswana’s incredible HIV success story, explained in one chart

Botswana has been getting a lot of calls lately from across the African continent, prodding the nation — once “at risk of extinction” from HIV...

28.08.2025 5

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Sara Herschander

This hidden tax will drain billions from the world’s poorest families

Immigrant rights activist Guerline Jozef can’t count the number of frantic texts, calls, and emails she gets daily from Haitians in the United...

22.08.2025 200

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Some countries still want to save the world

If the world has had enough of helping others, then somebody forgot to tell Spain.  Yes, Spain. The same country that, a little more than a decade...

03.08.2025 10

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Sara Herschander