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 January 24th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
The Hope for Haiti Now global telethon is also an extraordinary digital album including performances by lots of famous artists, along with a bonus track from Jay-Z, Bono, the Edge and Rihanna. You can also own the two-hour telethon video.
All proceeds from album and video sales will go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Oxfam [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
To the students of “Environment and Sustainable Development” the ChangeMakers. Your Traineeweeks starts now. Read more about it in Opit!
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Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Over 100 million people mobilized under the slogan “Stand Up - Take Action” at events in more than 100 countries around the globe between 17 and 19 October to demand that world leaders do not use the financial crisis as an excuse for breaking the promises they made in 2000 to achieve the Millennium Development [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2009 by ChangeMaker
One billion people face food insecurity and hunger this year because of high prices and the continuing global economic crisis, Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, said today. Diouf said investments of $30 billion a year in agricultural production is needed to halt the spread of hunger.
The number of [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
More than 6 million people in southern Africa are in need of food aid, 5.5 million of them in Zimbabwe alone, where the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, the World Food Programme said Friday. The agency remains tens of millions of dollars short of the funds necessary to meet the need.
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic has [...]
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