In case you missed it, in “Boast, build and sell” (International Herald Tribune, 24 September 2010), Nicholas D. Kristof offers three suggestions to improve humanitarian assistance in fighting poverty:1. Spread the good news: the fight against poverty currently saves the lives of approximately 32,000 children daily (around 22,0o0 children die per day at present against […]
As of now, more than one million people have signed the petition that you will find at http://www.1billionhungry.org/ If you are mad as hell, if you “find it unacceptable that close to one billion people are chronically hungry” then sign the petition. Its aims: “Through the United Nations, we call upon governments to make the […]
This story begins in December 2009 under the “village tree” of Gorin, in northern Burkina Faso. The “ancients” and the women welcomed members of Kaicedra to their town and asked their help in providing an adequate learning environment for their children. With their meager means, the community had built a temporary shelter that was bound […]
Launched in 2008, Mozambique’s biggest circulation weekly @Verdade, which reaches more than 400,000 people in that south-eastern African country, is the nation’s first high-quality, free newspaper. According to its founder, Erik Charas, “@Verdade was really created to bring out good values and positive morals as well as to raise our society to the levels we […]
Kenyan company Ushahidi is a free, open source or shared platform designed to crowdsource (use a community or large group of people to accomplish particular goals), amass and map crisis information from numerous sources in real time, including via text message, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, media sources and e-mail. Ushahidi can thus track real-time information, but […]
One of the consequences of the AIDS pandemic is the estimated 15 million or more children worldwide under the age of 18 who have been orphaned as a result of the disease. In response to this huge problem, in 2000 Dr. Sunette Pienaar Steyn founded Heartbeat. Heartbeat is a non-profit organization whose stated missions is: […]
A group of six countries in Oceania – Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste – have agreed to develop a roadmap and plan of action, called the Coral Triangle Initiative, to preserve their coral reefs. The area, which covers over 2 million square miles of ocean, encompases more than […]
A Swiss non-profit, public service Foundation, Just for Smiles (www.just4smiles.ch/) was founded to give polyhandicapped persons a chance to enjoy the outdoors and experience environments and sensations they are unfamiliar with. In the Foundation’s words, it was created to offer joy to those whose multiple handicaps confine them all too often to their wheelchairs and […]
