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Ghana: Presidential candidates quizzed about sanitation on prime time radio

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:13:13 -0500

Candidates for the Ghanaian presidential election scheduled for December 2008 answered questions on prime time radio about their sanitation plans if they are elected.

The candidates took turns to answer questions on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show over three days from 23 to 26 September 2008. The media platform dubbed Flag bearers on Environmental Sanitation was by a coalition of water and sanitation NGOs in the country.

Everyday one of the candidates was taken through a series of questions to assess their level of understanding of the current state of sanitation...

A Message of Hope, Love and Light

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:12:50 -0500

Dear AOKW Luminaries and Friends,

I cannot help but comment on the profound shift of consciousness that has just occurred as a result of this US election. It cannot be described in any other way but this: Awakening. Humanity has just been Awakened to the possibility of a New World Order; one that may now be built upon a foundation of Open Dialogue, Cooperative Collaboration and Equal Fellowship!

However, I feel that the road ahead will be quite a challenging and perilous one. The events that occur in the week ahead may test our collective determination and resolve.<...

Disabled Refugees Face Inaccessible Services and Food Shortages in Ugandan Camps

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:35:26 -0400

September 23, 2008, Gulu District, Uganda: Refugees who have been disabled by the war in Northern Uganda are confronting food shortages and inaccessible public services in government-run camps. At the same time they are under growing pressure to return home, even though they lack the resources to resume a normal life.

This warning was issued recently by the Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU), an advocacy group. It comes at a time when the Ugandan government is stepping up efforts to empty the camps, which still house more than half a million internally displaced pers...

AFRICA: Too small to be fighting in anyone's war

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:06:01 -0400

(December 2003) - His comrades in the transit camp run by Save the Children-UK in Bunia, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), called him 'Kadogo', which means "small" in Kiswahili. The name suited him for he was tiny, much too tiny, in fact, to be involved in anyone's war.

But at 12, Kadogo was already a veteran of a vicious bush war between ethnic militias in eastern DRC. So were his comrades at the transit camp, victims like him of a practice that has drawn widespread condemnation, including from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Dubbed "an illegal and...

Heroism of Conflict Survivors Inspires New Program in Central Africa, June 30, 2008

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:01:48 -0400

Ricky Richard was fourteen when he was abducted from his home in Uganda and drafted into the Lord's Resistance Army, a violent rebel militia that has forced almost two million Ugandans from their homes.

Mr Richard escaped after two years. But instead of turning his back on his past, Mr Richard confronted it directly. After leaving college, he formed Friends of Orphans, an organization that supports former child soldiers with education and technical training, and even helps them return to the villages they once terrorized.

Mr Ric...

Summer Job with Web Startup Company

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:04:41 -0400

BetterLesson has summer jobs available in the Research and Field Organizing departments. We are looking for dedicated educators with at least one year’s classroom experience to help us dramatically improve the lives of teachers and the quality of the instruction they deliver to students.

Interested candidates should send a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to cooper@betterlesson.org

Founding Director of Product Research

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:02:37 -0400

We are looking for someone with a keen interest in education technology and policy to head up our product research team.   We are looking for someone who is anxious to immerse him/herself in education technology and policy in order to help craft the long term vision of the website. The right candidate will:

1.    Have 1 or more years of prior research experience
2.    Have prior experience in the fields of education technology and/or policy.
3.    Possess strong writing and strategic thinking skills. ...

Founding-Level National Field Director

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:59:37 -0400

We have begun an aggressive grassroots effort to reach out to educators across the country. We are looking to hire someone with a minimum of two years’ classroom experience to lead this effort.   The right candidate will:

1.    Have some prior experience in outreach, recruitment, or sales
2.    Be exceptionally organized, creative, persuasive, extroverted, and resourceful.
3.    Possess strong leadership, critical thinking, and writing skills.
4.    Be committed to the soc...

Jennifer Connelly in charity: water PSA

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:53:09 -0400

imagine if New York City's taps went dry. What would we do? Jennifer Connelly walks to Central Park to get dirty water for her family as millions of mothers in Africa do every day. This new PSA from charity: water was directed by Hotel Rwanda's Terry George, cinematography by Ellen Kuras. Music by Rumor Mill. Edited by Michael Rothman @ Mudbutter.

All involved DONATED their time. Its national commercial debut was on American Idol Gives Back on April 9.

Want to act? Only $20 can give one person clean ...

Scaling Up Impact

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:06:10 -0400

I'm in Geneva for the 17th Board Meeting for the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria. Having crossed the $100 million mark in (RED) money generated for the Fund, I'm here representing (RED) partners, (RED) consumers and (RED) shareholders in Africa. We are by far the largest contributing participant in the Private Sector delegation.

Today is the third day of formal and informal deliberations on items including: the role of the Global Fund as a strategic investor in Malaria, commun...

IBM and the Holocaust

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:19:24 -0400

The following is an exert of a speech given by the head of IBM Germany, Willy Heidinger, upon opening a new IBM facility in Berlin in 1933

It leaves little doubt as to IBM's complicity in the atrocities that followed.

"The Physician examines the human body and determines whether...all organs are working to the benefit of the entire organism….We [IMB Germany] are very much like the physician, in that we dissect, cell by cell, the German cultural body. We report every individual characteristic… on a little card. These are not dead cards, quit...

World Water Day Video from charity: water

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:27:17 -0400

Enter Message / description of files attached: World Water Day video from charity: water

Be A Mentor to Young Social Entrepreneurs!

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:28:34 -0400

Conscious Lifestyle (www.consciouslifestyle.org) is looking for seasoned professionals to join our growing team of mentors.

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Conscious Lifestyle supports students who create projects that encourage "conscious living" in their campus communities. Projects can run the gamut from recycling programs to lobbying for campus policy changes, from animal shelters to sustainable engineering projects. We ask that these students build a strong business plan and launch their venture -- we give them seed money and help them to hone their entrepreneurial skills.

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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:05:59 -0500

Aboriginal Cultural Celebration and Kevin Annett Speaking About Genocide on Native Americans

On February 1, 2008, at 17:30 there will be an Aboriginal Cultural Celebration followed at 19:00 by Kevin Annett showing the documentary Unrepentant and speaking about Canada’s Genocide of Native Peoples at Café Art & Thé, 2055 Bishop St., Montreal, QC. The Aboriginal Cultural Celebration will be a display of Native art, with artists and performers To Be Announced. Kevin Annett, B.A. Anthropology 1983, M.A. Political Science 1986, M. Div. 1990, and Graduate with ...

Support Darfur, Earn Money & Help a Student at the Same Time

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:51:33 -0500

OneBigU (http://www.onebigu.com) allows users to help a struggling student, earn some money, and support a Darfur Charity at the same time.

OneBigU (for One Big University) helps Darfur in the following way:

- Person answers a question asked by any student around the world

- Person gets a little amount of money for every accepted answer

- Person sends the money to a partner Darfur charity, unless he/she wants to withdraw the money

OneBigU is partnered with Help Darfur Now (HDN), a US-based student charity in support of Darfur. All d...

Alliance Accepted! - Eric Cheung

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:53:40 -0500

Please come to Los angeles for Darfur Rally

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:07:10 -0400

Monday October 15 in Downtown LA 12 noon!!!

Help to stop American Investment in Darfur! Join me in downtown Los Angeles for a rally!

Click here to sign up

intern/vounteer to build peace though education in southern sudan!

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:05:37 -0400

New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI) is looking for talented people who are dedicated to rebuilding southern sudan. We belive this rebuilding is though education, education, education. We are a non-profit based in burlington, VT and we need you to help us compleate our vision of peace for Southern Sudan. please contact us as nesei.us@gmail.com if you are intersted in doing some rewarding grassroots level work in a wondeful state!