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in Inspire area
Peoples Association for Reading and Transformation
Peoples Association for Reading and Transformation is an NGO, which functions in South India, with the goal of 'Transforming lives through Reading'. More than 100 Libraries have been formed, and various programmes related to Reading and Skill development are conducted.
Foundation for Rural Development and Action Research (FORDAR)
The Mission of FORDAR is to contribute to the development process of Uganda especially Busoga region through initiating pro-poor projects with a greater involvement of the poor in the day to day project activities including borrowing and sharing knowledge, skills and experiences.
in News Stories in News area
Gorton Monastery GBP 6 million restoration complete - GLI first to use conference facilities
The GLI Trustees, UK Advisers and Management Team recently meet at Gorton Monastery for an "awayday" planning meeting three years on from the founding of GLI. We were delighted and honoured to be the first to use the excellent new Conference and meeting facilities in this newly renovated and just completed endangered World Monument site.
Innovative Community Development Discussions in South Africa
The gathering was described in advance as 'a space for development practitioners from all over the world to meet, learn and innovate together. It strives to add an emerging discipline in the development sector - not from the perspective of theory but from the experience of thinking practitioners'.
Everyclick.com - money raising search engine for charities
Everyclick.com is a search engine that lets you search the web and benefit the charity of your choice. So far we have raised GBP 232,232* for charities.
Developments in Kazakhstan - Authorities Order Demolition of Hare Krishna Properties
With the rise of discrimination against minority religious groups, about a year ago in April the Kazakh government made an attempt to bulldoze our community. At that time our devotees organized a peaceful resistance, and then a lot of talks started with the Kazakh government, with international bodies also speaking to the government.
Call For Papers/Conference Invite - 3rd International Youth Development Organization (IYDO)
The Conference is set to be the largest ever meeting of NGO's,CBO's,Youth Organizations, Socio-Cultural Organizations, Civil Society Organizations etc. focussed on Youth Development.
Corporate Alliance Provides Empowerment Platform for NPOs
Microsoft practices corporate citizenship in different formats worldwide; in Japan, Microsoft launched an 'NPO Day' event last year to demonstrate the power of IT to help NPOs perform better.
'Social Capital & Financial Inclusion' - International Conference 9 Nov 2007
Social capital is vital as a resource in efforts to make poverty history, yet its value is not well understood by civil society organisations. This is something Assist Social Capital is working to change.
The 2007 Candle Night Summer Solstice - June 22nd to 24th 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The 2007 Candle Night Summer Solstice will be from June 22nd to 24th, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Please turn off your lights and enjoy slow quality time. What are your plans for Candle Night this year?
Coca-Cola and WWF Water Conservation Initiative
The Coca-Cola Company pledges to replace the water it uses in its beverages and their production - Multi-year Partnership Announced with WWF to Conserve and Protect Freshwater Resources - Beijing, June 5, 2007
Caracol and Language Exchange Project Guatemala-Belize launch Living on the Borderline Exhibition
In February of this year Caracol completed a series of six creative workshops in Arenal sponsored by the Language Exchange Project. These workshops resulted in twelve Guatemalan students joining Caracol's existing group of Belizean students.
Story of a Juvenile Delinquent and his rescue into education
Here is another real life story from GLI Networker Syed Ahamed this time about his efforts to secure a future for a young boy accused of murder.
OneWorld Health - a non profit pharmaceutical company
Here is a radical concept - a non-profit pharmaceutical company. OneWorld Health develops safe, effective and affordable new medicines for people with infectious diseases in the developing world. From GLI Networker Chris Dabbs.
Caracol begins community radio broadcasting
From 5:00 am the voice of young radio presenters can be heard throughout the campus of Tumul K'in Centre of Learning in Blue Creek village, Toledo in rural southern Belize. Ak' Kutan FM is a Maya language community radio station that was set up with a donation of equipment from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
News of recent activities of Grace Peter Charitable Trust
Grace Peter Charitable Trust has been doing various activities in the field of Education during the past two months - distributing free school bags and notebooks, free medical camps and skills training for women's Self Help Groups.
Edge Upstarts Awards Social Entrepreneur 2007 Winners Announced - also in Social Entrepreneurship in Share area
in GLI News Stories in News area
100th UK Networker - Bruce Nixon
We are delighted to welcome Bruce Nixon as our 100th UK Networker. Bruce is a well known and significant player in the Sustainability arena.
in Social Entrepreneurship in Share area
International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Hangzhou, China
The International Forum on Social Entrepreneurship (IFSE), co-organised by Global Entrepreneurship Research Center of Zhejiang University Management School, Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship of Oxford Said Business School and Entrepreneurs School of Asia, held in Hangzhou during May 26 to 28, addressed Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility and Innovative Management of NPOs.
Social Enterprises in Asia I - Hong Kong
The Hongkong NPO representative group visited social enterprises in Taiwan from September the 23rd to 27th, 2006. GLI member, Mr. Ken ITO reports on the current situation of Asian social enterprises and entrepreneurs, as well as their environments, through his own experiences with them.
in How we do it Guides in Share area
PARD Anti Corruption Guide
Community Oriented effort to end corruption to establish the right of the common people by James Rajasekaran.E, People's Association for Rural Development (PARD), May 7, 2007
in Library in Share area
SKID extra information on Bonded Labour Brick Workers
The young girl with lots of dreams and thoughts is Eswari. She is the 4th girl child in her family. She is 12 years old she was studying in the local government school without knowing anything about the outer world and worries. Then suddenly she found herself with her family as bonded labour in a brick factory.
in Links in Share area
www.EasyFundraising.org.uk
Newsletter links in Share area
READ International - newsletter archive
New GLI Networkers
It has been another busy month and we now have more than 700 networkers from 46 countries. This month new networkers joined from ten different countries with India once again producing the most, but China, Africa and the UK competed strongly as runners up. As we have said before, we welcome all new networkers and remain very encouraged by their diversity and passion to make this world a better place. We only have space to show here what some of our latest networkers say about themselves, but all of them can be now viewed more easily on the GLI website -click Get Involved then Networkers - and many also show links to their own websites.
M Ganesh - Chittaranjandoss Organisation for Women, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India
We concentrate on women and children development through the formation of women Self Help Groups, pre-school education centre and children parliament .We also provide educational and financial support to children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
Andre Proctor - Keystone, Capetown, South Africa
Keystone is a citizen organization that seeks to maximize the developmental impact (or value) of citizen organizations, business and government, through designing and promoting innovative, practical methods of planning, learning and communicating their work in ways that foster learning and accountability among all constituents. We have developed a suite of free-to-use prototype tools and offer advisory services that citizen organizations can use to plan and learn with their constituents for significant and lasting social change.
Shobha Kapor - Mukti Sadan Foundation, Mumbai, India
Works with marginalised people, mostly drug users and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Averil Greenhalgh - Albury, New South Wales, Australia
I simply want to help and am looking for ways to do so.
Astrid von Kotze - Community Development Programme, Durban, South Africa
I teach/research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, trying to improve the quality of Community Development practitioners. I have a particular interest in issues of power and participation, the arts and risk reduction.
Osbert Lancaster - Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh, Scotland
We are an independent think-tank and action network. We bring together professionals, academics, activists and others to generate practical change and new thinking for ecological sustainability and social justice. It offers courses which engage the head, heart and hand of people wanting to initiate effective, enduring change.
T N Sethulingan - Social Institute for Development and Rehabilitation, Karur, Tamil Nadu
Working in the fields of HIV/AIDS, Rehabilitation, TB Prevention and Awareness, Prevention of Child Disability (all kinds) including Assessment Camps.
Koppulan - Peoples Movement for Development, Ramanathapuran, Tamil Nadu, India
Working for Fishermen Community, Palm Tree Workers, Women and Farmers' Development through alternative trades training such as blue green Algae, tailoring, palm leaf articles and verminculture.
Bruce Nixon - Bruce Nixon Associates, Berkhamstead, UK
My aim is to do what I can to contribute to creating a sustainable, fairer world in which there is less poverty and violence. I am an author and veteran activist, change merchant and independent management consultant. I write articles and books on sustainability and global justice .See www.brucenixon.com
Bro Antony Arulsamy - St Lasalle Pudthumanam Trust, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India
We are working for women and children development through formal and non-formal education, health awareness, vocational skills development, promotion of entrepreneurial skills, emancipation and empowerment of women and leadership.
Hussein K Mugambe - Advocacy through Filming and Screening Uganda, Kampala, Uganda
There is an ever increasing need for Community Development in Uganda. AFSU desires to dynamically and positively contribute to improving the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor communities and other marginal groups using Filming and Screening methods to educate and create awareness on issues affecting them and available solutions. We are capacity building and aiming to win the support of the majority and thereby achieve positive change.
Colin Campbell - Assist Social Capital, Edinburgh, Scotland
I have worked in the Social enterprise Sector since 1996. In 2001 I began exploring the value of social capital as a useful and yet ignored asset for community well-being and regeneration. Assist Social Capital, a charitable company, promotes social change in practice.
Krishna Amirthalingam - Creative Trust, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
We offer education and lifeskills to street children and orphans. We also promote womens' justice and equality through lobby and advocacy and the reduction in female infanticide.
Ntombizonke Maggie Dhladhla - Sizimisele Development Trust, Durban, South Africa
We strive to unlock and develop the human potential of all disadvantaged Africans in rural and urban populations through economic empowerment programmes of skills training and development.
Mame Samba Lo Diouf - Association for Youth Social Reinsertion (ARESJ), Dakar, Senegal
I specialize in Social Development. I am very concerned about poverty reduction and about the use of scarce water resources. I am also involved in Agricultural Production and in the ARESJ.
Katherine Byles - Homeless World Cup, Edinburgh, UK
The Homeless World Cup is a unique international football tournament, inspiring people who are currently homeless or excluded to change their own lives. 77% of players included in football development programmes significantly change their lives forever, coming off drugs and alcohol, moving into jobs, homes, education and becoming football coaches.
Sarah Mackay - Business in the Community, Northern Ireland
We are a Not for Profit organization working with community enterprises in Derry.
Martin Asamoah - GIMAT Volunteer Network, Accra, Ghana
Streetism has become one of the major social problems facing most countries in the world. The problem in Ghana is even greater than one would think. Everyday about 50 children move from rural Ghana to the urban cities in search of a better life, but unfortunately their aspirations are not met which leads to child labor, prostitution, drugs and armed robbery. These children grow up to become adults without hope. GIMAT's objectives are to establish a newspaper (mouthpiece) for the homeless and socially marginalised, bring the situation of the socially marginalised to the doorsteps of policymakers,civil societies and the citizenry, and in the long run provide income for the socially marginalized. GIMAT is involved in the Ghana Street Soccer National Team at the 2007 Homeless World Cup in Denmark.
Ray Umashankar - Asset India Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Our Mission is to educate children of women in prostitution and girls rescued from trafficking for prostitution in major cities in India and other Asian countries by providing computer literacy for alternative livelihood and as a means of AIDS prevention so that they can free themselves from being chained to the Flesh Trade.
Joe Kpenge - ActionAid Ghana, Accra, Ghana
I am a Human Resource and OD Practitioner working for ActionAid, an international charity working in 47 countries, to reduce poverty through a human rights strategy.
Mark Kelly - Social Enterprise TV, Scotland, UK
I have a deep passion for using new media and technology to create change in people and the world communities. I was schooled at The School of Social Entrepreneurs in Fife, I was given the chance to change my life forever and was allowed the time to co-develop some ideas for my first social enterprise for which I was even given a few awards. I have since done some R&D and am now looking to develop networks and partnerships with this new concept and lead from the front.
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