This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

Week after week, we bring you stories about projects to improve lives in the developing world. Projects like banking by mobile phone or low-cost lighting systems or even a toilet bag that recycles itself into fertilizer.
But for every success story, there are countless other projects that fail. These are the stories that people talk about at an event called FAILFaire.

The creators of the event recently held ttheir second FAILFaire. Members of the nonprofit community came together in Washington to talk about their projects, and why they failed.