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Turn Off the Water Works With This Gardening Hack From Tanzania
By Bethany Ivie | August 27, 2020
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MIT D-Lab Founder Amy Smith Discusses Appropriate Technology and Fighting Poverty
By Jason Woods | August 11, 2020
From an early age, Amy Smith felt she should use her skills to end poverty. With aptitude and passion for both engineering and international development, Smith committed her professional life to combining the two in a meaningful way, starting D-Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.
