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Youth Tackling World Ills Get Cash Through Clinton

May 11, 2011

Reuters
by Michelle Nichols

A soccer ball that absorbs energy to light a home and a radio program to help Nigerian farmers are among 78 projects sharing in $400,000 funding through former U.S. President Bill Clinton's youth humanitarian program. The Clinton Global Initiative University announced the winners on Friday for the projects aimed at improving communities around the world.

Clinton said the funding “will help innovative college students make a tremendous difference in the world” and that he hoped they would “inspire others to take action.”