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Celebrities to staff Oxfam shop
Stars donate clothes and accessories for sale at pop-up charity store in Selfridges A binliner full of questionable donations and a rolling staff of silver-haired part-time volunteers is the more usual formula for a charity shop. But next month Oxfam and Selfridges are set to raise the bar, with the launch of a swish pop-up charity shop selling clothes worn by the stars. For one week from 14 May …

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Zinc in pregnancy combats children’s diarrhea
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In developing countries such as Peru, where zinc deficiency is common, giving pregnant women zinc supplements may help curb diarrhea-related illness in their babies, research hints.

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CARE: A Voice from Nairobi
by Lauren Hendricks, CARE In 2002, I attended my first MicroCredit Summit in Cote d’Ivoire. It consisted of a few hundred Westerners discussing how microfinance…

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