Last year, there was a record high of 220,000 refugees in Europe seeking asylum. According to The Guardian, more than 900,000 people have sought refuge by sea to Greece or Italy due to civil unrest. Syrians made up the largest part of this group, having fled their home country because of the 4-and-a-half year civil […]
Emerge Poverty Free is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to break the cycle of poverty by enabling communities to take control of their own needs. In partnership with a local organization, Sustainable Investments and Development Initiatives (SIDI), Emerge Poverty Free has begun a project in Mwanza, Tanzania to empower hundreds of fisher-women through economic […]
The Duke Global Health Institute will begin a study this year to find cost-effective ways to fight hypertension in South Asia. The study will enroll 2,500 people from 30 rural communities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, where heart attacks and strokes caused by hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, are major causes of death. […]
A new tool for assessing progress toward the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) goals has now been piloted in five countries, the CDC reports. International health organizations in Georgia, Peru, Portugal, Uganda and the UK have all submitted evaluations of the assessment. The Global Health Security Agenda was launched in 2014 as a way to […]
Millions of children throughout Africa struggle to learn while sitting on dirt floors or the ground outside for hours at a time. In Malawi, three out of five students don’t have a desk or chair. Since 2010, Kids In Need of Desks (KIND) has placed more than 148,755 desks in 575 primary schools in Malawi, […]
Ghalib Khalil was just 15 when he started the Rescue Pakistan Foundation and made an exceptional name for himself. It was during the 2010 flooding in Pakistan that he recognized how little the government was doing to help the victims. Khalil’s national pride as a Pakistani has been made evident by his efforts to improve […]
Over the last several months the world has focused on South Asia in response to devastating earthquakes in Nepal, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. With the threat of a natural disaster always looming in this densely populated area of the world, it is important to take note of the methods of disaster response in Nepal that have had […]
The City Press has reported a possible new tier education system in South Africa where students will be divided into three tiers based on their strengths and weaknesses. According to Business Tech, students will be placed into one of three categories based on their assessed aptitude for each. The tiers are academic, technical occupational and […]
Etisalat contributed 30 desktop computers in an attempt to improve Information Communication Technology (ICT) education at the Nuhu Bamali Primary School in Kano State. Etisalat hopes the computer donations will raise ICT literacy at the primary school. The computers were presented to the school during a commissioning of facilities ceremony where Etisalat also unveiled school […]
In the 2015 holiday season, Lawrence O’Donnell’s KIND Fund (Kids in Need of Desks), which supplies desks and scholarships to students in Malawi, reached over $10.5 million in donations. The organization’s goal is to build tables for rural schools in Malawi that lack school furniture. In 2010, Lawrence O’ Donnell saw firsthand the struggles […]
