Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by ChangeMaker
MHealth Alliance and Orange Healthcare team up to develop mobile health solutions for West Africa
At the GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Orange Healthcare announced last week that they will be joining the mHealth Alliance, a partnership which leverages rapid advances in mobile technology to improve public health, health care systems and patient care in [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
SharingAwareness workshop in Kumasi Ghana, February 2010. Action methods are used for deeper learning and understanding. In this video the process of SODIS (Solar Water disinfection) method is show…
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Posted on February 10th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Watch the story of human rights and videos of the 30 articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sign the online petitions to teach human rights education in schools or report violations and abuses of human rights law.
This Website is a suggestion by Tetteh who has started his studies on ChangeMaker course Stage one [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
This post has been out before but I think it’s so [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by ChangeMaker
At the recent London Conference on Afghanistan, Afghan women expressed concerns that peace talks with the Taliban means sacrificing hard-earned rights.
At an international conference in London last week, seventy countries pledged to back Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s plan to negotiate and reconcile with some Taliban.
Despite reassurances from Karzai and western allies that reconciliation [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Bill and Melinda Gates have pledged $10 billion in a bid to save millions of lives during the next decade with vaccines. The funds will support efforts to provide vaccinations for diseases such as measles, diphtheria and polio, and develop new vaccines.
Vaccines already get more financing from the Gates Foundation than any other cause, [...]
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