'The world has nearly two billion 10 to 24 year olds; of these, 86 percent live in developing countries. While much literature on young people's health focuses on the problems and risks they face, there is a great deal of evidence that most get through the transition to adulthood without significant behavioral, social, or emotional difficulties. In fact, among this age group, positive changes in overall health have clearly outweighed the negative changes. Society must harness the energies of you more...
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'The heights and weights of preschool children whose diets included quality protein maize (QPM) as their main starchy staple increased more than 20% faster than those of children who ate conventional maize, according to a recent study in rural Ethiopia on the nutritional benefits of QPM and its acceptance as a food.'
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Akwamfon Sustainable Agriculture and Community Education Initiative (ASACEI) is one of ASCA's sustainable development initiatives. Supported by Teach A Man To Fish, the mission of the initiative is to promote sustainable agricultural practices as a means of providing entrepreneurial education to people in Nigeria.
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Ecofinder Youth Movement works with Kenyan Schools and neighbouring communities to build sustainable local schools and communities.Our approach is environmental entreprenuership and sustainable development education.These aim to empower the grass root schools and communities for self sufficiency through sustainable tapping of their natural resources. TeachAMantoFish started the Conservation and Agroforestry project at Lwanda Dudi Secondary School in Siaya. The project has gone full cycle in ter 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 education t 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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