Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Maria is a ChangeMaker student (Stage 2) who lives in Kenya. She is engaged with several environmental projects. To work with “own projects” is the main activity for all Stage 2 students. One of the projects that she is working with is “Save Lake Naivasha”. She had been in the area around the lake and [...]
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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 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 December 16th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
“Ministers have to be very clear and focused over the next 48 hours if we are to make it,” said conference president Connie Hedegaard of Denmark.
The conference so far has been marked by sharp disagreements between China and the United States and deep divisions between rich and poor nations.
Trying to ease the tension, U.N. [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
“Please Help the World”, film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Shown on December 7, 2009 at COP15.
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Personalised International Vocational Teacher Education with a Finnish Touch – online programme by HAAGA-HELIA and MKFC.
The HAAGA-HELIA School of Vocational Teacher Education is one of the five vocational teacher education schools in Finland. It is part of Haaga-Helia, a leading Finnish University of Applied Sciences.
The traditions of this teacher education programme reach back well over [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
I hope that you have read Maria’s first report from Nairobi. As mentioned before Maria is one of MKFC Stockholm Folkhögskola students who studies ”Environment and Sustainable Development”, and lives in Kenya Nairobi.
Maria has sent her second report recently. She actively participated and worked about two months with an NGO, Green Care Habitat (GRECAH), that [...]
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