
"In rural southern Malawi, I came across a roadside snack shop in the middle of nowhere. Traveling about in Africa, he saw a lot of goats. Then Anders Kelto, a radio reporter on our team who's been based in South Africa for the past four years, proposed: "Goats and Soda." Unarrested Development? Globelandia? Up the Road? They were too long, too hard to say on the radio or too vague. You may be thinking: "Goats? Soda? This blog is going to look at communicable diseases, education struggles, sanitation concerns. That's the name of NPR's new blog, covering health and all sorts of development around the world. "Goats and Soda: Stories of Life in a Changing World." On a hot day, a priest leads a goat to the shade of a tree at a Hindu temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
