The purpose of the Aspen Environment Forum Scholars program is to bring diverse, accomplished leaders to the Forum who might not otherwise be able to attend. Forum Scholars are selected on the basis of their experience, achievements, and interest in energy and the environment, as well as their commitment and contributions to the field. Forum Scholars constitute a wide range of backgrounds including practitioners, entrepreneurs, academics, community organizers, members of the public, private, and more...
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The challenges of America's urban schools are daunting: over eight million students read below grade-level, fifty percent of teachers leave teaching within five years, and barely one in ten low-income students will ever graduate from college. The Aspen Education and Society program helps local, state and national education leaders share knowledge about how school systems can improve the education and life chances of poor and minority students and works with them to create programs and policies t more...
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14 November 2008 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) enlisted the help of North American youth to help tackle climate change. The “Kick the Carbon Habit” education campaign was launched at a three-day event in Chicago featuring 20 youth representatives, between the ages of 18 and 22, from the US and Canada. The new project seeks to raise awareness of the importance of resource conservation, and UNEP stressed the importance of education and youth leadership in addressing globa more...
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World Food Programme. A meals-in-school programme gave a big boost to both a schoolboy and his father. Both Francis Ngonsa and his 11-year-old son Fidelis got a new start in life because of school feeding. It was Fidelis, who enrolled at a community school in the Zambian capital of Lusaka which has a school feeding programme run by WFP at the nearby Reach Out Community School. Here, Fidelis gets a cooked meal every day when there are classes. But it is Francis who gets a 50-kilogramme bag of mai more...
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World Food Programme Story. A street vendor in Port-au-Prince pours her meagre earnings into school fees. Sonia has pinned all her hopes on her children. The 39 year old mother of four sells shoes and sweets in the streets of Port-au-Prince, jostling for customers with the thousands of other vendors, in order to keep her children in school. Here, the HIV-positive status of the two youngest is a secret.Sonia herself has been living with HIV for 12 years. Her husband died of the disease in 1996. S more...
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MSF calls for scale-up of paediatric HIV care.
Nine out of ten children with HIV do not have access to life-saving antiretroviral drugs. Governments and donors need to be more ambitious in bringing existing paediatric HIV tests and drugs to the children who need them.
This lack of access is particularly threatening for babies who are born with the virus as half of them will die before their second birthday if untreated. An estimated 1.9 million children are in need of antiretroviral treatment more...
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One of the most devastating consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is the growing number of children the disease has orphaned.Globally, 15.2 million children under the age of 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. By 2010, this number could reach 25 million.Long before their parents actually die, children begin to suffer the knock-on effects of chronic illness in their family:
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