Thousands of children in Niger are at risk of death from severe malnutrition due to a food crisis. Relief groups warned last year that without more aid, Niger would face this crisis after poor harvests caused by drought and locust invasions. The UN has received less than 20% of the funding requested to purchase and distribute food to Niger's vulnerable populations. Over 10,000 Nigerien children are now receiving treatment for malnutrition, but aid has been slow to arrive despite early warnings, and the crisis is expected to worsen.
This document provides information on MSF activities around the world and introduces some new initiatives. It includes:
1) A description of a new mobile app called MapSwipe that allows users to help map remote areas by identifying features like villages and roads from satellite images, in order to help humanitarian organizations plan aid efforts.
2) Updates on medical activities and crises in places like Cameroon, Greece, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Yemen, where MSF is treating malnutrition, refugees, HIV/AIDS, and war injuries.
3) An interview with a British surgeon discussing his work teaching war surgery techniques to Yemeni doctors and the challenges of working in conflict zones over many years.
Global South Development Magazine October 2010 issueglobalsouth
This document provides information about Global South Development Magazine, a quarterly publication that covers developmental issues in the Global South. It lists the magazine's editors, regional correspondents, and special contributors. The contents section previews several articles in the upcoming issue, including ones on poverty reduction, justice in Sri Lanka, inequality in Bolivia, and floods in Pakistan.
This article discusses domestic violence against women in Kenya. It profiles several women who have experienced abuse and oppression from their husbands, including being physically assaulted, having their business assets sold without permission, and being abandoned with children to support. The founder of an organization for victims of domestic violence organized a Valentine's Day ceremony and dinner for over 50 abused women. The event aimed to share experiences and views, as well as bring awareness to the issue and support for victims.
Thank you for your insightful letter. You raise several important points about technology and development in Africa. While iconic brands like Apple may resonate more in wealthy nations, providing practical and affordable options is crucial for closing digital divides in the developing world. I agree that companies must find culturally appropriate ways to make legitimate software accessible at low costs through mobile payments and other familiar methods. Overall this highlights how a one-size-fits-all approach will not work - development requires understanding local needs, capabilities and customs. Your perspective offers a thoughtful contribution to discussions on these issues.
The document discusses several topics related to development issues in global south regions. It provides information on:
1) Over 300 cancer patients in Swaziland being treated in South African hospitals had to be returned after the Swazi government could no longer afford their medical costs due to a financial crisis.
2) Tunisians have welcomed over 60,000 Libyan refugees fleeing violence, with many families opening their homes to provide shelter.
3) Virginity-related penalties faced solely by women in Afghanistan for pre-marital sex or lost virginity, including imprisonment, honor killings, and being forced to repay wedding costs, are considered extremely unfair and discriminatory.
The document is the April 2012 issue of the Global South Development Magazine. It includes articles on topics such as peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, gender equality in Argentina, mobile health technologies, and challenges to women's participation in development in Nepal. It also features a photo essay from Pencils of Promise showing school children in Laos and Central America, as well as letters to the editor discussing measures of failed states and the role of technology in reducing corruption.
Fahri Musliu, a correspondent from Belgrade for Kosovo media for over 30 years, discusses the challenges of his job. He faced significant difficulties reporting from 1987-1989 as anti-Albanian sentiment in Serbia increased. He had trouble finding official sources to interview until 2000. Kosovo media are still interested in Belgrade news, but some editors feel certain facts are unimportant. Musliu believes accurate reporting from Belgrade remains important for Kosovo.
This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. The report asks, for example, what should be done when people blame a flood on an angry goddess (River Kosi, India, in 2008) or a volcanic eruption on the mountain god (Mount Merapi). After the tsunami in 2004, many people in Aceh (Indonesia) believed that Allah had punished them for allowing tourism or drilling for oil, and similar beliefs were widespread in the United States regarding Hurricane Katrina, showing God’s displeasure with aspects of the behaviour of the people who live in or visit New Orleans.
Most people who live in places that are exposed to serious hazards are aware of the risks they face, including earthquakes, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides and droughts. Yet they still live there because, to earn their living, they need to or have no alternative. Coasts and rivers are good for fishing and farming; valley and volcanic soils are very fertile; drought alternates with good farming or herding. Culture and beliefs, for example, in spirits or gods, or simple fatalism, enable people to live with risks and make sense of their lives in dangerous places. Sometimes, though, unequal power relations are also part of culture, and those who have little influence must inevitably cope with threatening environments.
Together with other organizations that engage in DRR, we in the Red Cross Red Crescent know about people’s beliefs and cultures and their different interpretations of risk. However, we find it challenging to fit these seamlessly into our organizational framework and funding models. Instead we tend to assume (or hope) that the people we want to support use the same logic and rationality as we do and that they will want to reduce the disaster risk. Sometimes there is also an institutional reluctance to deal with the issues of inequality and power that make people vulnerable in the places where they make a living.
The one thing that is certain is that we will have less sustained impact if we do not adequately take account of people’s cultures, beliefs and attitudes in relation to risk. With climate change leading to damaged livelihoods, and therefore more vulnerability, and making hazards more extreme and/or frequent, we have to get this right.
One important goal of this edition of the World Disasters Report is to bring these complex issues and clashes of cultures into the open for discussion, so that they can be much better incorporated into DRR work.
This document provides information on MSF activities around the world and introduces some new initiatives. It includes:
1) A description of a new mobile app called MapSwipe that allows users to help map remote areas by identifying features like villages and roads from satellite images, in order to help humanitarian organizations plan aid efforts.
2) Updates on medical activities and crises in places like Cameroon, Greece, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Yemen, where MSF is treating malnutrition, refugees, HIV/AIDS, and war injuries.
3) An interview with a British surgeon discussing his work teaching war surgery techniques to Yemeni doctors and the challenges of working in conflict zones over many years.
Global South Development Magazine October 2010 issueglobalsouth
This document provides information about Global South Development Magazine, a quarterly publication that covers developmental issues in the Global South. It lists the magazine's editors, regional correspondents, and special contributors. The contents section previews several articles in the upcoming issue, including ones on poverty reduction, justice in Sri Lanka, inequality in Bolivia, and floods in Pakistan.
This article discusses domestic violence against women in Kenya. It profiles several women who have experienced abuse and oppression from their husbands, including being physically assaulted, having their business assets sold without permission, and being abandoned with children to support. The founder of an organization for victims of domestic violence organized a Valentine's Day ceremony and dinner for over 50 abused women. The event aimed to share experiences and views, as well as bring awareness to the issue and support for victims.
Thank you for your insightful letter. You raise several important points about technology and development in Africa. While iconic brands like Apple may resonate more in wealthy nations, providing practical and affordable options is crucial for closing digital divides in the developing world. I agree that companies must find culturally appropriate ways to make legitimate software accessible at low costs through mobile payments and other familiar methods. Overall this highlights how a one-size-fits-all approach will not work - development requires understanding local needs, capabilities and customs. Your perspective offers a thoughtful contribution to discussions on these issues.
The document discusses several topics related to development issues in global south regions. It provides information on:
1) Over 300 cancer patients in Swaziland being treated in South African hospitals had to be returned after the Swazi government could no longer afford their medical costs due to a financial crisis.
2) Tunisians have welcomed over 60,000 Libyan refugees fleeing violence, with many families opening their homes to provide shelter.
3) Virginity-related penalties faced solely by women in Afghanistan for pre-marital sex or lost virginity, including imprisonment, honor killings, and being forced to repay wedding costs, are considered extremely unfair and discriminatory.
The document is the April 2012 issue of the Global South Development Magazine. It includes articles on topics such as peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, gender equality in Argentina, mobile health technologies, and challenges to women's participation in development in Nepal. It also features a photo essay from Pencils of Promise showing school children in Laos and Central America, as well as letters to the editor discussing measures of failed states and the role of technology in reducing corruption.
Fahri Musliu, a correspondent from Belgrade for Kosovo media for over 30 years, discusses the challenges of his job. He faced significant difficulties reporting from 1987-1989 as anti-Albanian sentiment in Serbia increased. He had trouble finding official sources to interview until 2000. Kosovo media are still interested in Belgrade news, but some editors feel certain facts are unimportant. Musliu believes accurate reporting from Belgrade remains important for Kosovo.
This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. The report asks, for example, what should be done when people blame a flood on an angry goddess (River Kosi, India, in 2008) or a volcanic eruption on the mountain god (Mount Merapi). After the tsunami in 2004, many people in Aceh (Indonesia) believed that Allah had punished them for allowing tourism or drilling for oil, and similar beliefs were widespread in the United States regarding Hurricane Katrina, showing God’s displeasure with aspects of the behaviour of the people who live in or visit New Orleans.
Most people who live in places that are exposed to serious hazards are aware of the risks they face, including earthquakes, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides and droughts. Yet they still live there because, to earn their living, they need to or have no alternative. Coasts and rivers are good for fishing and farming; valley and volcanic soils are very fertile; drought alternates with good farming or herding. Culture and beliefs, for example, in spirits or gods, or simple fatalism, enable people to live with risks and make sense of their lives in dangerous places. Sometimes, though, unequal power relations are also part of culture, and those who have little influence must inevitably cope with threatening environments.
Together with other organizations that engage in DRR, we in the Red Cross Red Crescent know about people’s beliefs and cultures and their different interpretations of risk. However, we find it challenging to fit these seamlessly into our organizational framework and funding models. Instead we tend to assume (or hope) that the people we want to support use the same logic and rationality as we do and that they will want to reduce the disaster risk. Sometimes there is also an institutional reluctance to deal with the issues of inequality and power that make people vulnerable in the places where they make a living.
The one thing that is certain is that we will have less sustained impact if we do not adequately take account of people’s cultures, beliefs and attitudes in relation to risk. With climate change leading to damaged livelihoods, and therefore more vulnerability, and making hazards more extreme and/or frequent, we have to get this right.
One important goal of this edition of the World Disasters Report is to bring these complex issues and clashes of cultures into the open for discussion, so that they can be much better incorporated into DRR work.
Global South Development Magazine January 2011globalsouth
The article discusses Ethiopia's new five-year plan to reduce HIV infections. Key points:
- The plan aims to halve new HIV infections, quadruple annual condom distribution, and put 85% of people needing treatment on medication.
- Ethiopia has already reduced new HIV infections by over 25% since 2001 according to UNAIDS.
- However, the plan does not include specific programming for men who have sex with men, who face legal repercussions and are at high risk for HIV. Advocates call for including this group in HIV prevention efforts.
This article discusses how mobile phones can be used more effectively than the Internet for development work in the Global South, where Internet penetration is very low. It profiles Ken Banks, who advocates using basic mobile phone functions like SMS rather than focusing on Internet-reliant tools. His Frontline SMS platform allows NGOs to transmit data via basic phones anywhere a signal exists. Several examples are given of Frontline SMS being used for tasks like security alerts, healthcare monitoring, and disaster response in developing countries. While technology enthusiasts envision sophisticated mobile apps, this article argues that even very basic phone functions can still have significant development impacts when Internet is largely absent.
Friends Africa is a pan-African non-governmental organization located in Nigeria that works to mobilize political and financial support for fighting AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. In 2013, Friends Africa organized numerous advocacy events targeting decision-makers and stakeholders. These included hosting a panel on social media for non-profits, meetings with the Executive Director of the Global Fund during his visit to discuss issues like sustainable health financing, and a corporate executive dinner on the role of the private sector in health in Africa. Friends Africa also partnered with organizations to convene global leaders to discuss challenges and opportunities in health financing at various international conferences and forums.
The Red Cross has been responding to Hurricane Irene, operating nearly 500 shelters along the East Coast providing over 52,000 overnight stays. More than 1,000 disaster workers including 76 from Georgia have been deployed. Ten kitchens have been operating or setting up to serve 140,000 meals per day in affected states. The Red Cross expects to be helping people in hard-hit areas for the next several weeks and is requesting donations to support recovery efforts.
Global south development magazine april 2011globalsouth
1) A study in Uganda found that providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) to HIV-positive individuals significantly reduced the risk of transmitting HIV to their uninfected partners.
2) Around 48% of HIV-infected married individuals in Uganda have HIV-negative partners. ART allows viral loads to drop and cuts HIV transmission risk by 92%.
3) The Democratic Republic of Congo has introduced a new mining code of conduct aimed at increasing transparency and reducing fraud and violence in the mining industry. However, concerns remain about ongoing illegal mining and the military's role.
Humanitarian Action for Children is UNICEF’s global appeal, which highlights the challenges faced by children in humanitarian situations, the support required to help them survive and thrive, and the results possible in even the most difficult of circumstances. Information about UNICEF’s work in these contexts is presented in each country and regional page of the HAC at www.unicef.org/appeals. Appeals and results are updated regularly, based on the country context. The HAC is in line with United Nations inter-agency Strategic Response Plans.
The document announces that the 2015 winner of the $250,000 World Food Prize will be revealed on July 1st at the US Department of State in Washington D.C. US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will give the keynote address. The World Food Prize, referred to as the "Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture", recognizes individuals who have enhanced global food security.
Virtual Volunteers: Hurricane Katrina's Impact and Women's ResolveTara Conley
This document summarizes a research synopsis about virtual volunteer networks formed in response to Hurricane Katrina. It focuses on relief blogs, forums and groups operated mainly by women and single mothers seeking assistance. These virtual spaces provide evidence of Katrina's impact and the ineffectiveness of government programs like FEMA and TANF. The document examines how these networks became grassroots organizing tools that connected women and families beyond official aid. It also questions the role of gender in motivating hurricane survivors, especially women and single mothers, to find alternative sources of support online.
This document is a July 2012 issue of the Global South Development Magazine. It contains several articles on development issues in different regions of the developing world. The main articles discuss:
1) Concerns that gains made by women in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya after the Arab Spring could be reversed by rising social conservatism.
2) Sri Lanka has made some progress on economic development and resettlement after the civil war but more needs to be done to implement recommendations to address impunity and grievances.
3) A decision in Egypt to peg local medicine prices to international levels is causing concerns it will reduce access to healthcare for many Egyptians who cannot afford health insurance.
The annual report summarizes Direct Relief's activities for the 2006 fiscal year. It provided over $200 million in medical assistance to 56 countries, including $190 million in medical material aid and $10 million in cash grants. The medical material aid contained over 23.9 million treatment courses. Direct Relief saw a 59% increase in medical material aid from the previous year. The report highlights Direct Relief's focus areas of primary health care, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS. It provides examples of partnerships in countries like the US, Peru, Ghana, El Salvador, Uganda, and India. The report is dedicated to improving health access for vulnerable populations worldwide.
AIDSTAR-One Case Study: Jane Goodall Institute in TanzaniaAIDSTAROne
1) The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Tanzania works to mainstream HIV programming into its natural resource management and economic growth activities.
2) JGI home-based care provider Jumanne helps an HIV-positive family in Kasuku village, including transporting the sick daughter to the hospital and supporting their adherence to antiretroviral treatment.
3) By addressing local health, education, and economic priorities, JGI's community-centered conservation model fosters synergies between natural resource protection and socioeconomic development in communities surrounding Gombe National Park.
This article discusses challenges to quality education in Pakistan and initiatives to address them. It notes that Pakistan is unlikely to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal for education due to issues like 30% of the population receiving less than 2 years of schooling. Free government schools struggle due to other expenses, so an informal evening school in Islamabad's parks helps provide education. While progress is still needed, such community efforts demonstrate ways to promote education amid policy and resource hindrances. The article also briefly mentions child recruitment by militias in Mali preparing to fight Islamist groups.
The American Red Cross provided unprecedented relief efforts in response to the devastating Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005. They opened over 1,400 shelters across 31 states and the District of Columbia that provided over 3.8 million overnight stays. The Red Cross served over 68 million hot meals and snacks and provided emergency assistance to over 1.4 million families. This was the largest and most widespread relief operation in the history of the American Red Cross. Thanks to record-breaking public donations, the Red Cross was able to help survivors with food, shelter, home repairs and rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the devastating storms.
This document discusses several key issues facing India's healthcare system through a series of quotes and statistics on different topics:
1. Sanitation issues plague India with over 665 million practicing open defecation and 50 million city residents lacking toilets.
2. Drinking water is also a major problem with over 21% of diseases related to unsafe water and 1,600 children dying daily due to lack of clean water.
3. Nutrition is a huge burden with 43% of children malnourished and India unlikely to meet UN goals to halve undernutrition by 2015 at its current rate of progress.
This document discusses poverty in the world and the Vincentian Family's response. It covers:
1) The current context of extreme poverty globally with over 1 billion living in poverty.
2) Vincentian spirituality, which sees serving the poor as serving Christ and finds the poor evangelizing.
3) The need for collaboration between organizations, governments, and groups to effectively address poverty, as no single group can do it alone. Addressing poverty requires bringing together different perspectives.
UNIFEM partnership aims to empower women -Focus Oct09 AUSaidChristina Parmionova
AusAID and the United Nations
Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM) have signed a partnership agreement that is aimed at empowering women and achieving gender equality in the developing world.Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance Bob McMullan signed the partnership agreement with UNIFEM Executive Director Dr Inés Alberdi on 12 August during her recent visit to Australia. Through the partnership,
Australia will provide more than
$17 million to support UNIFEM in its work to advance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over the next six years.
“There is much work to do,”
Mr McMullan said. “Almost 100
countries remain off-track to achieve the MDG of eliminating genderdisparity in all levels of education by 2015. More than 500,000 women in developing countries die annually in childbirth or from maternity-related complications. Globally, one in three women experience violence. Almost two out of three employed women are in vulnerable or unpaid jobs.”
ABOVE: Dr Inés Alberdi and Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance Bob McMullan sign the partnership framework in Canberra. Photo: Angus Braithwaite, AusAID
1. Kolmogorova komplexita
2. Syntaktická aplikace - kompresní algoritmy
3. Sémantická aplikace - corpus distance
4. Pragmatická aplikace - social distance
Global South Development Magazine January 2011globalsouth
The article discusses Ethiopia's new five-year plan to reduce HIV infections. Key points:
- The plan aims to halve new HIV infections, quadruple annual condom distribution, and put 85% of people needing treatment on medication.
- Ethiopia has already reduced new HIV infections by over 25% since 2001 according to UNAIDS.
- However, the plan does not include specific programming for men who have sex with men, who face legal repercussions and are at high risk for HIV. Advocates call for including this group in HIV prevention efforts.
This article discusses how mobile phones can be used more effectively than the Internet for development work in the Global South, where Internet penetration is very low. It profiles Ken Banks, who advocates using basic mobile phone functions like SMS rather than focusing on Internet-reliant tools. His Frontline SMS platform allows NGOs to transmit data via basic phones anywhere a signal exists. Several examples are given of Frontline SMS being used for tasks like security alerts, healthcare monitoring, and disaster response in developing countries. While technology enthusiasts envision sophisticated mobile apps, this article argues that even very basic phone functions can still have significant development impacts when Internet is largely absent.
Friends Africa is a pan-African non-governmental organization located in Nigeria that works to mobilize political and financial support for fighting AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. In 2013, Friends Africa organized numerous advocacy events targeting decision-makers and stakeholders. These included hosting a panel on social media for non-profits, meetings with the Executive Director of the Global Fund during his visit to discuss issues like sustainable health financing, and a corporate executive dinner on the role of the private sector in health in Africa. Friends Africa also partnered with organizations to convene global leaders to discuss challenges and opportunities in health financing at various international conferences and forums.
The Red Cross has been responding to Hurricane Irene, operating nearly 500 shelters along the East Coast providing over 52,000 overnight stays. More than 1,000 disaster workers including 76 from Georgia have been deployed. Ten kitchens have been operating or setting up to serve 140,000 meals per day in affected states. The Red Cross expects to be helping people in hard-hit areas for the next several weeks and is requesting donations to support recovery efforts.
Global south development magazine april 2011globalsouth
1) A study in Uganda found that providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) to HIV-positive individuals significantly reduced the risk of transmitting HIV to their uninfected partners.
2) Around 48% of HIV-infected married individuals in Uganda have HIV-negative partners. ART allows viral loads to drop and cuts HIV transmission risk by 92%.
3) The Democratic Republic of Congo has introduced a new mining code of conduct aimed at increasing transparency and reducing fraud and violence in the mining industry. However, concerns remain about ongoing illegal mining and the military's role.
Humanitarian Action for Children is UNICEF’s global appeal, which highlights the challenges faced by children in humanitarian situations, the support required to help them survive and thrive, and the results possible in even the most difficult of circumstances. Information about UNICEF’s work in these contexts is presented in each country and regional page of the HAC at www.unicef.org/appeals. Appeals and results are updated regularly, based on the country context. The HAC is in line with United Nations inter-agency Strategic Response Plans.
The document announces that the 2015 winner of the $250,000 World Food Prize will be revealed on July 1st at the US Department of State in Washington D.C. US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will give the keynote address. The World Food Prize, referred to as the "Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture", recognizes individuals who have enhanced global food security.
Virtual Volunteers: Hurricane Katrina's Impact and Women's ResolveTara Conley
This document summarizes a research synopsis about virtual volunteer networks formed in response to Hurricane Katrina. It focuses on relief blogs, forums and groups operated mainly by women and single mothers seeking assistance. These virtual spaces provide evidence of Katrina's impact and the ineffectiveness of government programs like FEMA and TANF. The document examines how these networks became grassroots organizing tools that connected women and families beyond official aid. It also questions the role of gender in motivating hurricane survivors, especially women and single mothers, to find alternative sources of support online.
This document is a July 2012 issue of the Global South Development Magazine. It contains several articles on development issues in different regions of the developing world. The main articles discuss:
1) Concerns that gains made by women in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya after the Arab Spring could be reversed by rising social conservatism.
2) Sri Lanka has made some progress on economic development and resettlement after the civil war but more needs to be done to implement recommendations to address impunity and grievances.
3) A decision in Egypt to peg local medicine prices to international levels is causing concerns it will reduce access to healthcare for many Egyptians who cannot afford health insurance.
The annual report summarizes Direct Relief's activities for the 2006 fiscal year. It provided over $200 million in medical assistance to 56 countries, including $190 million in medical material aid and $10 million in cash grants. The medical material aid contained over 23.9 million treatment courses. Direct Relief saw a 59% increase in medical material aid from the previous year. The report highlights Direct Relief's focus areas of primary health care, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS. It provides examples of partnerships in countries like the US, Peru, Ghana, El Salvador, Uganda, and India. The report is dedicated to improving health access for vulnerable populations worldwide.
AIDSTAR-One Case Study: Jane Goodall Institute in TanzaniaAIDSTAROne
1) The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Tanzania works to mainstream HIV programming into its natural resource management and economic growth activities.
2) JGI home-based care provider Jumanne helps an HIV-positive family in Kasuku village, including transporting the sick daughter to the hospital and supporting their adherence to antiretroviral treatment.
3) By addressing local health, education, and economic priorities, JGI's community-centered conservation model fosters synergies between natural resource protection and socioeconomic development in communities surrounding Gombe National Park.
This article discusses challenges to quality education in Pakistan and initiatives to address them. It notes that Pakistan is unlikely to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal for education due to issues like 30% of the population receiving less than 2 years of schooling. Free government schools struggle due to other expenses, so an informal evening school in Islamabad's parks helps provide education. While progress is still needed, such community efforts demonstrate ways to promote education amid policy and resource hindrances. The article also briefly mentions child recruitment by militias in Mali preparing to fight Islamist groups.
The American Red Cross provided unprecedented relief efforts in response to the devastating Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005. They opened over 1,400 shelters across 31 states and the District of Columbia that provided over 3.8 million overnight stays. The Red Cross served over 68 million hot meals and snacks and provided emergency assistance to over 1.4 million families. This was the largest and most widespread relief operation in the history of the American Red Cross. Thanks to record-breaking public donations, the Red Cross was able to help survivors with food, shelter, home repairs and rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the devastating storms.
This document discusses several key issues facing India's healthcare system through a series of quotes and statistics on different topics:
1. Sanitation issues plague India with over 665 million practicing open defecation and 50 million city residents lacking toilets.
2. Drinking water is also a major problem with over 21% of diseases related to unsafe water and 1,600 children dying daily due to lack of clean water.
3. Nutrition is a huge burden with 43% of children malnourished and India unlikely to meet UN goals to halve undernutrition by 2015 at its current rate of progress.
This document discusses poverty in the world and the Vincentian Family's response. It covers:
1) The current context of extreme poverty globally with over 1 billion living in poverty.
2) Vincentian spirituality, which sees serving the poor as serving Christ and finds the poor evangelizing.
3) The need for collaboration between organizations, governments, and groups to effectively address poverty, as no single group can do it alone. Addressing poverty requires bringing together different perspectives.
UNIFEM partnership aims to empower women -Focus Oct09 AUSaidChristina Parmionova
AusAID and the United Nations
Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM) have signed a partnership agreement that is aimed at empowering women and achieving gender equality in the developing world.Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance Bob McMullan signed the partnership agreement with UNIFEM Executive Director Dr Inés Alberdi on 12 August during her recent visit to Australia. Through the partnership,
Australia will provide more than
$17 million to support UNIFEM in its work to advance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over the next six years.
“There is much work to do,”
Mr McMullan said. “Almost 100
countries remain off-track to achieve the MDG of eliminating genderdisparity in all levels of education by 2015. More than 500,000 women in developing countries die annually in childbirth or from maternity-related complications. Globally, one in three women experience violence. Almost two out of three employed women are in vulnerable or unpaid jobs.”
ABOVE: Dr Inés Alberdi and Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance Bob McMullan sign the partnership framework in Canberra. Photo: Angus Braithwaite, AusAID
1. Kolmogorova komplexita
2. Syntaktická aplikace - kompresní algoritmy
3. Sémantická aplikace - corpus distance
4. Pragmatická aplikace - social distance
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SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental organization that has been working to support neglected and abandoned children since 1949. In Nicaragua, SOS began operating in 1972 following a devastating earthquake, housing orphaned children in villages in the country's northwest. SOS provides housing and care to children who cannot return to their biological families, as well as family strengthening programs to help disadvantaged families and prevent neglect. Poverty is a major issue in Nicaragua, with over half the population living below the poverty line and facing challenges like malnutrition, lack of access to education and healthcare. SOS works to help break the cycle of poverty by providing children with access to education and support networks.
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental organization that has been working to support neglected and abandoned children since 1949. In Nicaragua, SOS began operating in 1972 following a devastating earthquake, housing orphaned children in villages in the country's northwest. SOS provides housing and care for children who cannot return to their biological families, as well as family strengthening programs to support disadvantaged families and prevent neglect. Poverty is a major issue in Nicaragua, with over half the population living below the poverty line and facing challenges like malnutrition, lack of access to education and healthcare. SOS works to help break the cycle of poverty by providing children with access to education and support networks.
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental organization that has been working to support neglected and abandoned children since 1949. In Nicaragua, SOS began operating in 1972 following a devastating earthquake, housing orphaned children in villages in the country's northwest. SOS provides housing and care for children who cannot return to their biological families, as well as family strengthening programs to support disadvantaged families and prevent neglect. Poverty is a major issue in Nicaragua, with over half the population living below the poverty line and facing challenges like malnutrition, lack of access to education and healthcare. SOS works to help break the cycle of poverty by providing children with access to education and support networks.
18 million people across West Africa are facing a severe food crisis as harvests failed in 2011 due to drought and pests, leaving many without food and with high food prices. Interviews with residents of Niger's Dosso Region illustrate the desperation, with children begging for food and grandparents afraid for the future. Relief efforts are operating health centers for malnourished children, distributing food, and providing cash-for-work programs on projects like water retention fields.
1) In a rural clinic in Hadero, Ethiopia, children are weighed and only the most severely malnourished are given food aid, as resources are limited.
2) Around 10 million people in Ethiopia, over 12% of the population, need emergency food aid after drought destroyed harvests and food prices doubled.
3) Aid workers are struggling to prioritize aid and only have enough resources to help half the 4.6 million Ethiopians that need assistance, as expenses have risen.
UNICEF Launches “Nutrition Now” Campaign for Africa’s Sahel RegionRao Chalasani
UNICEF launched a "Nutrition Now" campaign in late 2020 to address the urgent nutrition needs of millions of vulnerable children in the Sahel region of West Africa and Central Africa who lack access to basic food and nutrition. An estimated 8.1 million children experienced wasting in early 2020, increasing to nearly 10 million by November, with around three million experiencing severe wasting. The campaign aims to help these children and accompanies $1.7 billion in pledged humanitarian aid from international donors to families across the Central Sahel region, which faces extreme violence and underfunded aid needs posing a twin threat.
The Sahel region is vulnerable to drought due to increasing population size, poverty, and lack of development. Most people in the region rely on subsistence agriculture and have very low incomes, making it difficult to cope with the effects of drought like food shortages and rising food prices. The people are also generally uneducated and lack awareness of how to prepare for hazards. When drought struck the region in 2010, over 10 million people were affected due to inadequate government response and lack of community preparedness in the face of regular drought events.
18 million people across West Africa are facing a severe food crisis due to failed harvests in 2011 from drought and pests. Villagers describe going hungry and not having enough food to feed their children. Many people have been forced to flee their villages due to lack of food or conflict. One man and his nine children now live in a makeshift shelter in Niger's capital due to the food shortage. Aid organizations are working to address the crisis by operating health centers, distributing food, creating job programs, and providing supplies to displaced people.
Three key points from the document:
1) Children in Yemen face severe malnutrition and lack access to adequate food, with the average household consuming significantly less grains, meat, and eggs compared to previous monitoring periods. Over 45% of households reported family members going to bed hungry.
2) Child protection is a major concern, with over 38% of children afraid to play outside due to non-political violence and murders in some areas. Protection indicators worsened from the previous monitoring period.
3) Basic needs are not being met for many Yemeni children, as food insecurity and malnutrition levels rise along with threats to child safety. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deteriorating the well-being and development of the
Three key points from the document:
1) Children in Yemen face severe malnutrition and lack access to adequate food, with the average household consuming significantly less grains, meat, and eggs compared to previous monitoring periods. Over 45% of households reported family members going to bed hungry.
2) Child protection is a major concern, with over 38% of children afraid to play outside due to non-political murder cases increasing fear. This number rose sharply in Hodeida where 55% of children now feel afraid.
3) Basic indicators of food security and nutrition for Yemen's children are alarmingly low and deteriorating further, with protein intake for children under 5 almost non-existent in rural areas. The humanitarian crisis
1) The document describes a project to teach Central African refugees in Cameroon modern farming techniques so they could become self-sufficient. Over 5,000 refugees received training in agriculture, marketing, and other skills.
2) As a result of the training, the refugees were able to enormously produce crops and have enough food for their families while also earning income. They were able to pay medical and school fees.
3) The project also helped foster peaceful coexistence between the refugees and host communities by having them farm together and share land. It transformed the refugees' lives from nomadic cattle herders to professional farmers.
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New research found that the Grandmothers Against Poverty & AIDS (GAPA) program in Tanzania has had a positive impact on grandmothers caring for families affected by HIV/AIDS. The GAPA program provides community support, psychosocial support, and income generation activities to empower grandmothers. A study of 301 grandmothers found that being part of a GAPA peer support group improved self-esteem and community cooperation, and helped grandmothers earn income. The GAPA program aims to reduce poverty and stigma faced by grandmothers caring for orphans due to HIV/AIDS.
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The European Union and UNICEF signed a 9.5 million euro agreement to fight chronic malnutrition in Niger over four years. The project will target 801,000 children and 844,000 women in eight departments with high malnutrition rates. Nearly half of Niger's children suffer from chronic malnutrition, hindering national development. The funding will support community nutrition education, market gardening, sanitation, and strengthening health services.
This document discusses "gogos", which are grandmothers in South Africa who care for orphaned children due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It provides statistics on the impact of AIDS in South Africa and the number of orphaned children. It describes gogo centers that have been set up to support grandmothers caring for orphans. The grandmothers' wishes are for better healthcare, housing, food, education, and financial support to care for the children they are raising.
Thousands of refugees from Mali have crossed the border into Niger due to conflict, greatly increasing the population of Sinegodar village and overwhelming its limited resources. Most refugees have no shelter and sleep outside, sharing the village's single, unsafe water well among over 8,000 people. The village has just one nurse and no medicine, endangering the lives of newborn babies. While villagers are welcoming refugees, the region is extremely poor and faces hunger, requiring emergency aid including shelter, water, and medical care.
American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS) is a double blind peer reviewed, open access journal published by (ARJHSS).
The main objective of ARJHSS is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. ARJHSS aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in Humanities & Social Science and become the leading journal in Humanities & Social Science in the world.
The San Diego State Zoo proposes developing an online educational platform to teach visitors about animals and conservation. They have 15 years of experience creating engaging and enjoyable learning solutions through collaboration with experts and proven project management. The proposed solution includes a navigable website with areas about the kids' zoo, animal habitats, human impact, and species conservation. Users would complete quests and puzzles assigned by a "Cyber Advisor" using tools like an explorer's scrapbook. The zoo aims to ensure project success through risk mitigation, regular communication, scalability, and evaluating the solution to meet visitor satisfaction.
The document provides a checklist for setting up a new project in a quality assurance project management system. It outlines 8 steps to complete, including ensuring all necessary project documents are in the active job folder, verifying an existing signed contract, checking if the client and project are already in the system, entering unit and plan information, notifying relevant parties, and double checking all data entry for accuracy. It stresses the importance of accuracy when setting up new projects.
Company A has experienced rapid growth over the past year but is struggling to deliver quality due to inefficient processes that have caused delays of several weeks in setting up new projects; analyzing the work processes revealed gaps in skills, incentives, environment, and motivation among sales, contract, and project staff; addressing these gaps through training, process changes, new roles, and job aids could significantly reduce setup times and restore quality.
The document provides an overview of a simulation set in a rural village in Niger called Gao Kou Kou Seigi. The simulation aims to familiarize volunteers with village life through interactive activities. Learners will be able to greet locals, learn about appropriate gestures, customs around sharing meals, and more. The simulation involves visiting different areas to learn, including a schoolhouse to learn words and the chief's compound to demonstrate knowledge gained.
This document summarizes research on online dating profiles of gay and lesbian users in southern California. The researchers analyzed profiles on a popular dating website to look for trends based on age and gender. They found that older users generally wrote more in their profiles and used "I" less, suggesting they take online dating more seriously than younger users. The study provided initial insights but more research is needed, especially on outcomes after users meet offline.
The document discusses a nutrition education program called Nutrition Link that teaches third, fourth, and fifth grade students. It focuses on incorporating emerging technologies into the program's online curriculum to make it more engaging for students. A survey found that teachers feel videos, games, podcasts, and blogs could enhance lessons while constraints include time. The report recommends taking steps to add new learning tools starting with videos and games and conducting more research on appropriate technologies, training needs, and interest.
System dynamics is a methodology for studying complex feedback systems over time. It involves identifying a problem, developing a hypothesis, building a computer simulation model, testing the model, devising alternative policies, and implementing solutions. Transactional distance in distance education can be modeled using system dynamics by representing the dynamic relationship between dialogue and structure over time, and how varying these rates can control transactional distance. System dynamics provides a way to study interrelated educational variables and their relationships over a period of time.
The document proposes an exhibit to educate visitors about village life in rural Niger through interactive displays staffed by returned Peace Corps volunteers. The exhibit would use artifacts, video, and opportunities to learn greetings and tasks to demonstrate daily life challenges like collecting water. By experiencing aspects of Nigerien living and culture firsthand, visitors could gain appreciation for their way of life in comparison to their own. The exhibit aims to fulfill the Peace Corps' mission of cultural exchange and hopes to attract interest in Nigerien culture, Peace Corps service, and humanitarian support.
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Crisis in Niger
MARADI, Niger (AFP) - Relief groups said that if
donors had heeded Niger's appeals for assistance last
November, the west African state would not be on the
verge of a crisis in which thousands of children risk
death from severe malnutrition.
Of 14 appeals for aid to Africa made so far this year
by UN agencies, eight have received just one for
every five dollars requested, or less than 20 percent
of the amount of the appeal.
The 16 million-dollar appeal in June for Niger has so far only netted about five
million dollars (four million euros), not nearly enough to coordinate the purchase,
storage and distribution of the millet, sorghum and rice crops that are staples in the
arid nation's national diet.
Niger recorded deficits in cereal production in the hundreds of thousands of tons
after the 2004 harvest from its parched cropland, which had been decimated by an
invasion of hungry desert locusts, the worst in more than a decade.
Gian Carlo Cirri, country director for the UN's World Food Program, told AFP that an
initial aid package of six million euros sought in November would have been
sufficient to purchase needed grain reserves to sustain the most vulnerable among
Niger's 12 million people over the lean season.
"Now we need over 15 million euros (in aid)," Cirri said. "We've been ringing the
alarm bell since last October and only now, now that children are dying, are we
starting to receive attention and help."
More than 10,000 Niger children are being treated for malnutrition at therapeutic
feeding centers scattered around the country's north and center, the regions
hardest-hit by the hunger crisis.
The town of Maradi, some 620 kilometers (372 miles) east of the capital Niamey, is
considered the epicenter of the "silent hunger" sweeping Niger, mostly affecting
already vulnerable populations of children and their mothers.
"We're seeing more and more children with severe malnutrition," said Doctor
Innocent Ntunzimbona, grabbing spare seconds between treating listless children
with shriveled bodies and swollen bellies at a Medecins Sans Frontieres camp here.
"Every week the numbers rise, the cases get worse and the children hover closer to
death. And it's only going to get worse."
Perennial donors to Niger, ranked above only war-torn Sierra Leone on the UN's
Human Development Index, have begun slowly to heed the dire warnings from relief
groups. The European Union last week announced some 4.6 million euros in
humanitarian aid to Niger, most of which will be targeted nutritional support.
Aid has trickled in from northern neighbors Algeria, Libya and Morocco in the form
of dates, fruit juice and powdered milk, while Saudi Arabia, the UAE and China have
also donated food and money to the starving nation.
But problems with distribution and the paucity of a social services network have
meant that even these donations are not reaching the population in time.
"Despite our early requests for help, mobilization by the international community
has been slow," said Doctor Seydou Bakary, coordinator of the Niger government's
food crisis unit.
"We are doing what we can with what little we have."
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PLEASE HELP! The
people of Niger are in The French humanitarian organization Doctors
desperate trouble right Without Borders (Medcins Sans Frontieres) has
now and need all of our warned that a crisis is emerging in southern Niger
help. Please help spread where the agency has seen a worrying increase in
the word. The biggest severely malnourished children.
problem is that not
many people are even The head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in
aware there is a Niger, Johannes Sekkenes, says that every week
problem. I know not all between 200 to 250 children are admitted to feeding
of us have the extra
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money to send but we
all have voices and
fingers and we can
spread the word until it
gets to someone who
does have the money.
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centers in the Maradi and Tahoua districts of southern Niger, a 300 percent increase
from previous years.
Ms. Sekkenes says that the children they are receiving at feeding centers are very,
very thin, and suffering from severe malnutrition. She says many of the children are
at risk of dying from lack of food if not given immediate medical care.
The humanitarian agency has opened an additional feeding center in Maradi and will
open another in Tahoua to try and cope with the numbers of children who need
help.
Children suffering from malnutrition have thin arms, but distended bellies as their
livers have become enlarged. In extreme cases, the body starts to consume its own
tissues, and people acquire a skeletal appearance. Long-term effects of child
malnutrition are uncertain, but some children have been known to suffer mental
retardation.
Ms. Sekkenes says that she is very pessimistic and does not think that the situation
will improve.
She says that Niger is still approaching the season between two harvests when food
is normally scarce.
Niger journalist, Ousmane Toudou, says that even in Niger's capital Niamey, people
are finding it difficult to afford food, but for people in rural areas it is much worse.
Mr. Toudou says that people in the countryside do not have the means to buy food,
and normally they would grow their own.
Harvests last year failed in Niger due to a combination of drought and swarms
locusts which ate young, growing crops across the Sahel region. With grain stores
depleted and growing food shortages, prices of food in one of the world's poorest
countries have dramatically increased.
There are a few different ways to help, as I said the most important being
spreading the word. Another way is to contribute directly to a food bank
that is being set up to help villages get through the rainy season. Here are
the instructions.
Send money direct to the woman doing cereal banks. So, here's the 5 step process...
1. Please send a check to our diplomatic pouch address:
Julianna White
2420 Niamey Place
Dulles, VA 20189-2420
2. In the interim, please email us the dollar amount you are sending.
dmcnally@ne.peacecorps.gov and bradley@ameritech.net
3. We will take cash a check locally here to get CFA (the Nigerien currency) into the hands of
the folks doing the cereal bank construction as quickly as possible.
4. When your check arrives to our address after 10-14 days, we will then deposit this to cover
the costs.
5. Sound good?...Questions?
Great, then send your check and email and you will be making the ultimate difference in some
people's lives.
This is one of the most legitimate ways to help that there is. The only
better way would be to fly there and give it to the women and children
yourself. There is also another effort that you can find out more about at a
friend's website, www.saveniger.org. It is just being set up and should have more
information on how you can help soon.
This site is dedicated to giving people a glimpse into the lives of the people of Niger and the
Peace Corps volunteers living among them. This site is the culmination of many volunteers'
experiences over the past 6 years and will hopefully open many people's eyes as to what life is
like living in the country of Niger. You may note that I have not yet written anything favorable
about Niger yet. This website will do it's best to give an unbiased view, or at least present both
sides.
When I was offered the opportunity to go to Niger to serve in the Peace Corps for
two years there was not much I could find that told me what life was like for a
volunteer living there. I found plenty of statistics and facts, but very few real world
perspectives. Hopefully this website will help others who are thinking of going to
Niger, either to serve, or visit.
Niger is a place of startling contrasts. The environment is both beautiful and forbidding at the
same time. The people of Niger are subject to some of the harshest conditions on earth, but are
the most amiable and welcoming people you will ever meet. The question that most volunteers
are asked upon their return from service is "Well how was it?" or "How did you like it?".
Personally, I have to stifle a laugh when people pose this question to me. The short answer is
that it was the hardest thing I have ever done and probably will ever do, and if I had known what
it was going to be like before I left, I would have never gone. But I would never trade the
experience that I had there for anything, and knowing what I know now, I would do it again in a
heartbeat, and recommend it to you as well.
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