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• Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.
• Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending … (full text about KIVA).

Homepage;
How KIVA works; Lend; Do more; Community; Updates; Gifts; Blog; Press; Developers; Fellows; Jobs; Volunteer; Help /FAQs; Donate;
Address: Kiva Microfunds, 3180 18th Street, Suite 201, San Francisco, CA, 94110, USA;
Contact.

About Microfinance: Microfinance is a general term to describe financial services to low-income individuals or to those who do not have access to typical banking services.  Continuer la lecture de « KIVA – loans that change lives »

turning a global crisis into a global opportunity – Linked on our blogs with A great way to kick off 2011 for the Robin Hood Tax, and later with Sign petition for the Robin Hood Tax.

• It’s simple: the financial crisis and the recession have left a massive hole in the UK’s public finances. Jobs and public services are at risk in the UK while many other developed and developing countries face a similar struggle.
• But there is another way. Thousands of Robin Hood supporters believe that banks, hedge funds and the rest of the financial sector should pay their fair share to clear up the mess they helped create. (Why we need Robin and links to topics).

Homepage;
You need to know; Policy Library; Progress; Media; Latest; Get involved; Accessibility; Resources; Spread the word; Latest; Supporters; The Coalition; Around the world;
Contact online.

How it works – the big idea: In a nutshell, the big idea behind the Robin Hood Tax is to generate billions of pounds – hopefully even hundreds of billions of pounds. That money will fight poverty in the UK and overseas. It will tackle climate change. And it will come from fairer taxation of the financial sector.   Continuer la lecture de « Robin Hood Tax »

Linked with Social Care online.

… The Social Care Institute for Excellence’s (SCIE) mission is to identify and spread knowledge about good practice to the large and diverse social care workforce and support the delivery of transformed, personalised social care services. We aim to reach and influence practitioners, managers and the sector leadership who have responsibility for service delivery in adults’ and children’s services. We recognise the central role of people who use services, children, young people, their families and their carers, and we aim to ensure their experience and expertise is reflected in all aspects of our work … (about 1/2).

Homepage; http://www.scie.org.uk/index.asp

Key resources: SC TV; Social Care Online; e-Learning; Good Practice Framework;
Adults; Families, Children; Workforce; Knowledge, Research; Tools, Gateways; Publications; Newsletters; News; Events; Help;
Address: Social Care Institute for Excellence, Goldings House, 2 Hay’s Lane, London SE1 2HB, UK;
Contact.

About 2/2 … /Our Role: SCIE is an independent charity, funded by the Department of Health and the devolved administrations in Wales and Northern Ireland.  Continuer la lecture de « Social Care Institute for Excellence SCIE »

Linked on this blog with In Defence of Youth Work.

Friday 15th April to Saturday 16th April 2011 – SWAN National Conference 2011, themes, programme and speakers:

• SWAN will hold its next annual conference in Birmingham (Avon Rooms, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham) … The theme of the conference will be building alliances in the struggle to defend services and challenge austerity measures … (details and updated speakers).
• Registration/Booking.
• Download the leaflet for the conference.
• SWAN National Conference 2011 in collaboration with In Defence of Youth Work.

Homepage;
Activities, Events; Regionals; International; News, Updates; Contributions (reports); Archives; Forum;
Contact online.

SWAN Organisation /Manifesto – 1. Social Work Today: Social work in Britain today has lost direction. This is not new. Many have talked about social work being in crisis for over thirty years now. Continuer la lecture de « Social Work Action Network SWAN »

Linked with Computers for African Schools CFAS;

• An IT education is vital for African school children in the modern world. IT skills are increasingly in demand by business and global economy and are paramount to securing good jobs and improving standards of living.
• Furthermore, with access to the internet, school children can widen their understanding of the world around them, and they can link up with other schools abroad improving cross-cultural communication.
• … thanks to the programme, most state secondary schools now have a computer lab and teachers in these schools have been trained … (full text Why IT for Africa).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Aims; How we work; Schools; UK Partners; ITSA Progress Map; News, Events; FAQs; Links; How you can help;
IT Training Centre /Overview:
Map and Address: IT Schools Africa.org, Unit 8, Mead Park Industrial Estate, Mead Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7EF, UK;
Contact.

The ITSA story: ITSA was established in 2004 to accelerate education in Africa with a vision to address the problem of textbook shortages in African schools.   Continuer la lecture de « IT Schools Africa.org ITSA »

Our mission: Build Africa works exclusively in rural areas of Uganda and Kenya to help young people escape poverty through education and income generation.
What we do: In education we work within local development plans to:

• Help build the capacity of schools, communities and local government staff to work together to improve data collection, planning, monitoring and evaluation at school level, resulting in a ‘school development plan’;
• Provide training and mentoring of school management committees for better school governance;
• Carry out teacher training; and
• Construct classrooms, water supplies, toilets, teacher accommodation, staff rooms, resource centres, as well as provide books, desks, etc. … (full text Our Strategy).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Build a school; Build an income; Where we work; Accessibility; Newsletter; Reports, Accounts; Our people; Jobs; Support us;
Addresses (1 of 3): Build Africa, Block 245, Plot 421 Kiwuliriza Zone, Lower Muyenga, off Gaba Road, PO Box 7224, Kampala, Uganda;
Contacts.

About 2/2: Build Africa is a dynamic charity working in rural Uganda and Kenya to help young people escape poverty through education and income generation.  Continuer la lecture de « Build Africa.org »

Science with a human face

… ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi-arid tropics has over 2 billion people, and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these poor people to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agriculture … (full text about us).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Crops; Genebank; Research; Impacts; Products, Innovations; Slideshow; Publications; Board;
Addresses: (1 of 7): ICRISAT, Patancheru ,502324, Andhra Pradesh, India;
Contacts.

Strategic Plan to 2020: Ending pessimism in the tropical drylands: Dryland agriculture has long been viewed with pessimism and hopelessness.  Continuer la lecture de « International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ICRISAT »

in german/auf deutsch: Schutz von Patenmädchen vor Genitalverstümmelung.

The organisations have the power and the potential to guarantee the immediate protection of sponsored girls in a simple, effective and even measurable way. They only have to admit the following:

• Female genital mutilation is NOT to be tolerated, under NO condition.
• Every single sponsored girl has a right to be protected from genital mutilation.
• This right is strictly to be guaranteed, not only to fulfill the responsibility towards the sponsored girls, but also towards you as the donors – to whom the organisations are obliged to grant the highest possible results form the invested money … (full text the solutions).

english Homepage;
Who we are, 4 pdf pages; About; What can you do; Press/Reactions;
Imprint; Contacts.

The Problem: A lot of harm, sufferance and death in African, Arabian and Asian countries is not caused by external influence like hunger, aridity or illnesses. It is caused by the people themselves – and is therefore totally avoidable.   Continuer la lecture de « Protect girls from Female Genital Mutilation FGM »

The Neuenburg Centre for Professional Integration – site only in french

• Short text in english: CNIP– school and company at once – is an institution for instruction and reintegration, an integration effort which serves the population that lives there on several levels. It serves to answer the requirements of the locally rooted industry and is orientated towards the needs of the local population. Unemployed people, retired people IV, and people who are not integrated into work life can find their way back into professional life thanks to a training at CNIP. That gives them the opportunity to solve their social and financial problems and to live an independent life … (full description in english in this article on Current Concerns, no. 3, February 2011).
• Bienvenue au CNIP: Depuis 15 ans déjà, le Centre neuchâtelois d’intégration profes- sionnelle est actif dans la formation et l’aide à la réinsertion de personnes peu ou pas qualifiées, dans les domaines de la mécanique, de l’assemblage/soudage, de l’électro- technique, du polissage, de la logistique et de l’horlogerie. (Accueil).

Formation; Sous-traitance; Aide à l’insertion/réinsertion; Publications; Evènements; Partenariats; Produits; Management qualité; Liens;
Adresse: CNIP – Centre Neuchâtelois d’Intégration Professionnelle, Site Dubied 12, Case Postale 176, CH-2108 Couvet/Switzerland;
Contact.

Politique de confidentialité: Le CNIP respecte et protège votre vie privée. Veuillez prendre note des aspects ci-après de notre politique de confidentialité :  Continuer la lecture de « Centre neuchâtelois d’integration professionnelle CNIP »