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Posted By:  Wandila
Posted On:  May 5, 2010

  High Quality Free Vocational Courses for the youth and the global community_World Virtual School

At the right time when there is high demand , there images a great initiative to , provide free online vocational courses to disadvantaged youth , provide employment opportunities for industry professionals , provide eco-business courses for future interns in green industries. The World...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Sep 1, 2008

  Annan: Africa needs a green revolution

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands : Bringing a green revolution to Africa and feeding the continent’s 200 million hungry people is one of the greatest development challenges of this century, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday. Annan said a 50 percent jump in staple food...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Aug 8, 2008

  080808: Let the Games Beijng

The Biggest and probably most controversial games in history. It’s a big day for China today. With its opening ceremony of the Beijng Olympics, it hopes to definitely settle its desired image of superpower in a world of shifting power, scarce resources, diverging trends of...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Aug 1, 2008

  The true spirit of young people

- By Sandra van Beest , Youth Representative to the United Nations, 2007-2008. As youth representative of the Netherlands I have had the opportunity to represent Dutch young people at the United Nations. Through writing proposals for UN resolutions, negotiating to get the proposals in the...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Jul 19, 2008

  Land, Water And Conflict

As drylands get drier and violence grows, new crises resembling Darfur will arise. By Jeffrey Sachs | NEWSWEEK. July 7-14, 2008 issue. The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Jun 30, 2008

  The Girl Effect

Beautiful! The Girl Effect . Thanks to Anothercompany. ShareThis ... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Jun 20, 2008

  World Refugee Day: Displacement in the 21st Century. A new paradigm

The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  May 5, 2008

  Measuring Genuine Progress

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was first used in the United Kingdom to measure their war-time production. Since the whole economy was geared up to wage war, it was a fair measure of how much the system was turning over. While the second world war has finished, GDP is peculiarly still the...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Apr 23, 2008

  How to save the world

Harvard prodigy Jeffrey Sachs helped take capitalism to Russia. Now he’s tackling Africa and climate change, he tells Ed Pilkington, and ‘negativism’ is all that stands in his way. An interesting interview with a notable person, about his renewed view towards the world and...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Apr 17, 2008

  Rebuild Your Future

New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council , The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou . See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl ShareThis ... [view]

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  Steve Sinnott Foundation

Submitted By:   Sambhawana
Website:  http://stevesinnottfoundation.org.uk
Phone:  +44 (0) 1923431653
E-mail:  sam.tiwari@stevesinnottfoundation.org.uk
  Vision:   To ensure good quality primary education for children in the poorest and most deprived regions of the world, thereby contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for education that by......
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  ORBIS International

Submitted By:   benenson
Website:  http://www.orbis.org
Phone:  646-674-5500
E-mail:  info@orbis.org
  Vision:   ORBIS International is a nonprofit global development organization whose vision is a world in which no one is needlessly blind, where quality eye care, education and treatment are available to every human being. Our......
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