Maria del Rosario Blandon is the leading technology teacher at the Pedro Octavio Amado School in Medellin. Her objective is to keep training again and again her students and the whole community so that they become real “athletes” of the ICTs. That is why everyday, she works hard on bringing new opportunities to those who are interested, through the use of the computers and the Internet.
For Maria, teaching is natural, and since she graduated from the university, it has been her main task: more...
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The EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education 2008 seek to identify the very best organizations rising to the challenges of supporting education across Africa, to highlight their models, and to reward their achievements. The competition offers 50 prizes of $1,000 for the most entrepreneurial education programs in every African country, a top prize of $10,000, and two runners-up prizes of $5,000.
At Teach A Man To Fish we believe that if the huge demand for educatio more...
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'Every year some 3.4 million people, mostly children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Over half of the hospital beds in the world are filled with people suffering from water- and sanitation-related diseases.
In 2002, participants in the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, made a commitment to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by the year 2015. The United Nations Deve more...
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'This publication, which consists of two parts, underscores the importance of population issues, including reproductive health, as a critical component of national efforts to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs. The first part highlights key arguments on the benefits to be gained when governments make reproductive health and rights a development priority. The second part includes the 'Stockholm Call to Action', a list of practical ways to invest in reproductive health which was endorsed by a num more...
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This task force’s vision is to encourage global aid policies that are more effective at improving the lives of the poor and address disillusionment about what aid can achieve. How does it work?
The task force aims to agree to a set of broad principles that can be used to refocus aid and make it more effective and to shift the current debate from whether aid works to how it can be made to work better through discussions with the Young Global Leader (YGL) community, using both online debate more...
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The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a newly formed, unique, multi-stakeholder community of the world’s most extraordinary leaders who are 40 years old or younger and who are ready to dedicate a part of their time and energy to jointly work towards a better future. Each year we identify 200-300 exceptional individuals, drawn from every region in the world and from a myriad of disciplines and sectors. Together, they form a powerful international community which can dramatically impact the globa more...
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"Job placement has been the traditional goal of labour and employment policies, but this report argues otherwise. To stay competitive in a globalised economy, governments must also strive to enhance the skills of workers, increase their productivity and provide upward mobility to immigrants and the disadvantaged. This report provides valuable insights into how labour policies can be expanded to meet economic development and social cohesion goals, while also reconciling national and local concern more...
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