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I'm not a politician, but I can still work on the MDG's |
| When I was 8 years old I read a story about a girl who goes to Uganda on a missions trip. From the moment I read that book I was hooked on Africa.
I come from a community where your average teenage girl doesn't harbour dreams of going to 'that' continent. People around here take their vacations |
Ingresado por: annasoper (2009-08-14 23:55:42)
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Buying Death With Money: |
| The Prostitute As Assassin
By Reuben Abati
"When any of my customers wants
to have sex with me without
using condoms, I usually
protest. Then we will strike a
bargain and we will do it. He
won't know that he is buying his
death with his own money.
However, there ar |
Ingresado por: pscornerstone (2009-04-27 17:22:56)
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African governments tasked to Increase Funding in Agriculture Sector |
| African governments have been challenged to commit to invest 10 percent of their national budgets to agriculture, to overcome the global food crisis. If this is applied, it will be a step towards meeting the first Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty and hunger by 2015.
The Internation |
Ingresado por: ekwuruke (2008-10-17 14:32:08)
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West African region among the world's hungriest |
| The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) says sub-Saharan African countries have the highest level of hunger in the world, with Niger, Sierra Leone and Liberia experiencing "extremely alarming levels of hunger," however, this is still an improvement over 1990 levels.
The study, released on 14 October b |
Ingresado por: ekwuruke (2008-10-14 14:33:14)
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Fighting Poverty, Village By Village |
| Standing in the midst of a freshly planted maize field, Bright Osei Kwaku recalls that last year he more than doubled his output with the help of improved seeds, fertilizer and advice on farming techniques. Altogether, his two to three acres yielded about 15 100-kilogramme bags of maize, compared wi |
Ingresado por: ekwuruke (2008-08-15 14:06:20)
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Investments in Agricultural Water Critical to Achieve the MDGs |
| The African Development Bank (AfDB), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and the World Bank today called for an increase in funding and a renewed focus on agricultural water management in Africa, including irrigation, drainage and rainwater harvesting. Representatives of AfDB, NE |
Ingresado por: ekwuruke (2008-03-28 14:36:32)
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USAID Reviewing Food Aid As Costs Soar |
| After a recent announcement that it will cut the amount of food aid it gives poor countries, the United States is likely to shift most of its focus to emergency needs, the American government agency responsible for humanitarian aid has hinted. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) told |
Ingresado por: ekwuruke (2008-03-27 14:17:55)
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ATM 2008 |
| Development Generation Africa International (DGAi) will host the first Abia State Children and Youth Forum on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (ATM) with theme: "Children and Youth Alive and Well" from April 25th, 2008 at Umuahia, capital city, Abia State, as part of the DGAi Nigeria Children and Youth Foru |
Ingresado por: ekwuruke (2008-03-19 09:35:37)
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Bloco da Camisinha: promovendo saúde e proteção no carnaval de Salvador |
| Por Efraim Neto – Fiocruz/Ba
A Bahia possui uma das festas populares mais belas do mundo. Povo rico em manifestações culturais, o baiano apresenta ao mundo toda sua hospitalidade, alegria e espontaneidade durante o Carnaval. É também durante esta festa que demonstramos organização e traba |
Ingresado por: efraimneto (2008-01-17 16:48:31)
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Centro de Guardería Comunitaria en Salvador - Brasil |
| Español
Aquí en la ciudad del Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, montamos un proyecto para acercar la comunidad de Canabrava, barrio desprovisto de la ciudad al objetivo número 2. Nuestro foco es poder realizar la reforma del centro de guardería comunitaria, así pudendo proporcionar un ambiente mejor pa |
Ingresado por: efraimneto (2008-01-06 20:10:06)
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