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Whereas over a third of children in rich countries complete university, in much of sub-Saharan Africa, a smaller share completes primary education – and just 5% attend university level. More
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Millennium Villages
The Millennium Villages project offers a unique, holistic, innovative model for empowering rural communities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. With the help of new advances in science and technology, local staff members work with villages to create and implement low cost, sustainable,... More
Global HIV Prevention Awareness Campaign through Post Offices
The goal of the campaign is to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV by 2015. Specifically, the campaign aims to increase global awareness of HIV prevention among the public in general and among postal workers.
The campaign is designed to be implemented in three phases. It will focus on the...
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Elimination of Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus
Tetanus, mainly affecting women and newborns, continues to be a public health problem in many countries in Asia and Africa. Despite firm global commitments more than 100,000 newborns and a significant number of women die due to tetanus every year. As the disease mainly affects populations with... More
Humanitarian Appeal for Haiti 2010
The strongest earthquake in Haiti in more than 200 years, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation on 12 January 2010 in the late afternoon. The earthquake struck Ouest Province around an epicentre 17km south-west of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, which... More
Business Call to Action
Launched in 2008, the Business Call to Action (BCtA) is a global membership network of companies, governments, and development organizations working to identify and promote business models that contribute to long-term commercial and development goals. By challenging companies to adapt business... More
Mongolia 2010 Dzud - Humanitarian Appeal
The 2009-10 winter, which has been extremely harsh even by Mongolian standards, has resulted in increased maternal and child mortality, and an unprecedented loss of livestock and the collapse of thousands of people’s livelihoods and many basic services. The disaster is known locally as a dzud... More
Emergency Relief in Haiti
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New technologic design of monitoring temperature of vaccines during transportation & distribution
We are looking at innovative ways to revisit the system of monitoring the temperature during transportation & distribution of our vaccines. There are immediate issues related to the waste management of the temperature monitoring devices we currently use, but also a broader issue of leveraging... More
Psycho-social Support to Secondary and Higher Education through Teacher Training in Haiti
Objectives
• To provide psycho-social support to secondary and higher education students through the fostering of supportive learning environments and the promotion of learner-centred pedagogy
• Training of teachers and educational support staff to understand how learners are affected by the...
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Emergency Support to National Education Authorities in Haiti
Objectives
• To provide basic equipment, repairs, and/or temporary work spaces to offices and facilities of the Ministry of Education and relevant education authorities
• To provide education authorities at national and district level with basic training in education sector emergency response...
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