This project provides wind turbines to communities that have no access to electricity. The 2kW wind turbines generate enough electricity to power 35 lights, 10 laptops or water pumps to bring running water to over 30 homes. Thanks to the help from volunteers every wind turbine built is given away to communities free of charge. It is the financial contribution and work of volunteers that covers the cost of the wind turbine and installation. Volunteers who join this project get to build and install a wind turbine in just five weeks. Everybody is welcome, no special skills are required. Owing to the huge popularity of this project it is full until 2011.
The project costs £725 for 5 weeks. The fee includes a contribution to the cost of materials needed to build a wind turbine, accommodation, food, transport whilst volunteering, trips to tourist sites, and the opportunity to spend a week living in the community where you will install your wind turbine.
Two Mexican women were the first to wed in Mexico City on Thursday after the capital became a pioneer in Latin America by legalizing gay marriages. Lol Kin Castaneda, 33, and Judith Vazquez, 45, wore matching ivory dresses as they led a ceremony for four other couples at city hall. The city’s left-leaning legislature approved gay marriage and gay adoptions, provoking an uproar from religious groups and conservatives, including President Felipe Calderon.
This project is looking for a volunteer to compliment the presence of two other professional volunteer English teachers. The volunteer will teach English as a foreign language at a basic level to children between the ages of 4 to 13 (public elementary school). Volunteers will also develop a curriculum for English Kindergarten (K1-K8). A degree/certification in teaching (ESL/EFL) or certified experience in teaching English as a foreign language, and an intermediate level of Spanish are required. 
A Mexican goes in search of his father. On her deathbed, his mother has told him to return to her native village in the south to search him out: ‘Just as you pass the gate of los Colimotes, there’s a beautiful view of a green plain tinged with the yellow of ripe corn. From there you can see Comala.’ But when the man gets to Comala, he finds an arid plain and an empty village, with nothing except the voices of the dead to speak to him. It soon seems that he too is bound to die.
President Hugo Chávez openly defies the ruling class in the United States, daring to push forward new productive relationships, to advance social reform that provides access to health care and education, to remove Venezuela from the economic orbit dominated by the United States, to diversify its production to meet human needs and promote human development, and to forge an economic coalition between Latin American countries.
Coalition for the Ethical Control of Urban Animals (CEFU) executive director Alejandra Cassino estimates more than 700,000 companion animals may be affected by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile’s central region on the 27 February 2010. CEFU has called upon other Chilean animal organizations to unite for these victims. Under the banner ‘Animal Relief Chile,’ the coalition provides a national support network to cover veterinary care, resource management, communications, volunteers, etc. 
Cool in voice, cool in demeanour, Sao Paulo siren Céu belongs in a great tradition of unflappable Brazilian female singers that goes back beyond Astrid Gilberto and the iconic Girl from Ipanema. And if the fact that Céu updates this tradition with elements of drum’n’bass, r&b and left-field rock will appal some, that essential, timeless bossa nova composure remains the centre of her music. Indeed, this 29-year-old tropical ice maiden is probably incapable of singing a crude note or making an inelegant gesture.
The tourism industry in Chile has been hit hard as travellers cancel trips to the disaster-struck country. 
A series of strong aftershocks has rattled Chile, not far from where the deadly 8.8 magnitude quake caused widespread destruction and triggered a tsunami nearly a week ago.
There are few foodstuffs with such a rich and intriguing history as chocolate. Many people have a love affair with chocolate yet few of us know the unique origins of this popular treat. We tend to think of chocolate as a sweet candy created during modern times. But actually, chocolate dates back to the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica who drank chocolate as a bitter beverage.