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March of the Barefoot Doctors

The Maoist cultural revolution introduced the concept of a barefoot doctor – a rural paramedic permanently deployed in far-flung villages. These embedded health-workers would live within and under the same conditions as their client communities – copying the Chinese peasant farmers’ Spartan aversion to footwear (which, apart from being an urban luxury had a ruinous [...]

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CIDA leads the way

CIDA is a low-cost, independent college.
We take a look at this pioneering Gauteng school that places hi-tech business education within the reach of the poor. Neil Horne explains how they do it.

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