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  1. Save the Children: Helping children develop reading skills

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Background Around the world, many children leave primary school without the reading skills needed to continue their education and ...

    Conference Location: El Salvador

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  2. HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation: Farming despite frost

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    The Challenge For centuries, indigenous rural communities in the southern Andes of Peru have faced considerable weather-related ...

    Conference Location: Peru

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  3. Habitat for Humanity: Safe water from the sky

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Background Pernambuco State, located in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil, is marked by low rainfall and extreme poverty. ...

    Conference Location: Brazil

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  4. Habitat for Humanity: A path to homeownership

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Background Women who work in flour factories peeling cassava, many of whom live in Brazil, endure conditions of semi-slavery. ...

    Conference Location: Brazil

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  5. Impact Hub: Solutions for longer lives

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Increases in human life expectancy and demographic ageing are among the major challenges facing society today. Despite a ...

    Conference Location: Mexico, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom

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  6. x-runner: Water-free sanitation in Peru

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    The Challenge Lima is the world’s second-driest capital city due to its desert location and the impacts of climate change. Its ...

    Conference Location: Peru

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  7. Fundación Natura Bolivia: A watershed approach to conservation

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Background Supported in part by Swiss Re's International ReSource Award for Sustainable Watershed Management (Winner 2010), ...

    Conference Location: Bolivia

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  8. The Swiss Red Cross (SRC): Bracing for nature's worst

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    The Challenge The Central America and Caribbean region is one of the most disaster-prone in the world. In addition to natural ...

    Conference Location: Caribbean region

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  9. Global Earthquake Model Foundation: Understanding earthquakes

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    From 1970 to 2012, the toll of earthquakes in South America was 77 000 lives, 15 million people affected and economic losses of ...

    Conference Location: Colombia

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  10. The American Red Cross (ARC): Recovering from Hurricane Sandy

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Hurricane Sandy hit the Caribbean, Jamaica and the East Coast of the United States in October 2012. The American Red Cross was ...

    Conference Location: Caribbean

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