BALTIMORE, Maryland – Grace O’Brien has brought lightweight, sustainable hearing aids to children in Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, South Korea and Sri Lanka, and has plans to reach even more impoverished, disabled children. “This hearing aid is giving them a chance to escape poverty,” the 18-year-old told USA Today. “It’s giving them the chance to get a valid education and I think that’s really amazing.” O’Brien is the founder of Ears for Years, a nonprofit that distributes low-cost solar powered hearing aids to children in developing countries. She was inspired at the age of 14 when her father began suffering from…
Author: Marie Ngom
Marie Ngom
Marie is from Senegal, she studied at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, majoring in English Literature, and minored in Modern Language and Linguistics: French. Marie has danced Classical Ballet for 11 years.
BALTIMORE, Maryland – Bill and Melinda Gates are betting that technology will end global poverty by 2030 thanks to improvements in development work. “The lives of people in poor countries will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any time in history,” they wrote in the 2015 Gates Annual Letter. “And their lives will improve more than anyone else’s.” They state that innovation and technology will lead to breakthroughs in health, farming, banking and education in the next 15 years that will end global poverty. The couple’s predictions are not without merit. Already there are numerous examples of technology…