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August has been a busy month - Thank You - you've sent us in so much good stuff - so this is a bumper News Mail of new items added to the website and of new Networkers joining GLI
in the Inspire area
Conforti Community Aid Children Organisation (CCACO) Sierra Leone
CCACO was formed in 1998 by young people with a vision to assist disadvantaged children in need like the handicapped, orphans, war affected and street children.
Issue Sud
Issue Sud is an organization where artists and young professionals unite their skills and their talents to promote social communication and entrepreneurship through empowerment of street traders and youth associations and some projects of social business.
VBNK - Capacity Building in Cambodia - and Centre for Creative Development
VBNK is the leading capacity building Cambodian NGO, providing management training, organisation development consultancy, research and publications and a range of other services for NGOs and the social development sector in Cambodia and the region.
KIDS FOR KIDS to help over 64,000 children and their families in Dafur, Sudan
KIDS FOR KIDS was set up in March 2001 because of the intolerable life of a small boy aged 9 whose job it was to walk for 7 hours to reach water, and then carry it back to his family. Patricia Parker founded the charity after seeing him walking in the heat of Darfur.
Restoring Hope to the Hopeless - JVTC Kenya
Jirani Vocational Center (JVTC) as the school is known is located in Dandora next to Korogocho slum. Korogocho slum is home to approximately 250,000 people who don't have appropriate shelter, sanitation, clean water or food - they live below the 1 USD a day extreme poverty line.
Solas
Being homeless is one of the most frightening experiences that anyone could possibly have. It's not just losing the roof over your head. But there are organisations around that can help….. Solas is one.
Nyisango - reaching vulnerable women in Nyanza Province, Kenya
Our organization, Nyisango, is trying all it can to reach the vulnerable women in parts of Nyanza province, Kenya, through education on their legal rights as concerns their sexual choices, so that no one can force them into wife inheritance after they have lost their husbands.
Independent Transport Network (ITN)
This is the amazing story of ITN in America. The Independent Transport Network is a social enterprise started, like so many, because an individual came face to face with a major social problem and decided to take positive, practical and simple action to solve it.
in News Stories in News area
Kids for Kids - Tree planting success
Now for the good news! We planted 180,000 tree seedlings in the tree nursery we paid to create last year.
Asia/Pacific Region Microcredit Summit
I am attaching an announcement - see below - regarding the Asia/Pacific Region Microcredit Summit. This may be of interest to GLI members in the Asia-Pacific region. Mosleh Ahmed
1st Pan-African Prize for Entrepreneurial Teachers Launched
A competition offering awards for the most entrepreneurial teacher in every African country, and with a top prize of USD 10,000, was launched today by UK based education charity Teach A Man To Fish. Closing date of October 15th 2007
Online consultation Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
In order to facilitate the response of civil society to this consultation, NGLS in collaboration with OHCHR and NGO partners is conducting an online consultation that will run from 20 August to 20 September, 2007.
October 17: Stand up with millions united as one GCAP
Last year in October 17, over 23 million people in 87 countries 'stood up' against poverty in what was 'the largest single coordinated mobilisation of people in the history of the Guinness World Records'. This year, on October 17, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) and the United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) will be aiming to break this record - join in!
Avaaz - a force for positive change worldwide
What we do in our own communities has a global impact - and vice versa. I commend to you the work of Avaaz, which you can view below. Just go to the 'Click Here' button to see what ordinary people have achieved around global warming, reducing world conflict and tackling poverty. David Gray
Earthwatch Lecture: Animals & their Ecosystems
Thursday 13 September 2007, 7.00pm, at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7. Earthwatch Lecture: Animals & their Ecosystems. Sue van Rensburg & Dr. Tigga Kingston.
Mobile Phone Banking for Microfinance - Microfinance Club UK Invitation, London, September 2007
Invitation to the next MF Club UK event - Mobile Phone Banking for Microfinance - on Tuesday, 4th September 2007 from 6.15-8.00pm at Morgan Stanley, 20 Cabot Square, Canary Wharf E14 4QW. Registration at 6.15pm; Presentations start at 6.30 sharp, followed by refreshments.
Learn to Earn wins Gold! plus 'Beginnings'
Learn to Earn has won Gold at the prestigious Impumelelo Innovations Awards Trust function held on 17th February 2007. May we add GLI's congratulations and very best wishes. Here is the Director's Message from the newsletter and news of the new book 'Beginnings'.
Scotland Wins Homeless World Cup
Scotland has won the Copenhagen 2007 Homeless World Cup, the international football tournament changing lives. Scotland beat Poland in the finals by 9 goals to 3 in front of packed crowds and HRH Crown Prince of Denmark, today in the City Hall Square
in Sustainable Development in Share area
Microinsurance and Microfinance
Microinsurance is my passion. I took retirement in 2003 and since then have been working in microinsurance in central asia and south asia - mostly on voluntary work but also as an independednt consultant for the ADB, ILO and UNDP. I am also a consultant in migrants' remittance - working mainly on leveraging remittance for development purposes. Mosleh Ahmed
in Social Entrepreneurship in Share area
Social Enterprise in Asia - 4 Taiwan - No.2
From September 23rd to 27th in 2006, some NPOs from Hong Kong made a visit to Taiwan's social enterprises. GLI member, Mr. Ito Ken, joined the visiting tour and provided us with this visiting report. This article below is the fourth part of the report that Mr. Ito Ken provided us, and also the second part of Taiwan.
Social Enterprises in Asia - 5 Conclusion
The Hongkong NPO representative group visited social enterprises in Taiwan from September the 23rd to 27th, 2006. GLI member, Mr. Ken ITO from Japan submitted his visiting report as a member of the visiting group. In the report, he introduced the current situation of Asian social enterprises and entrepreneurs, as well as their environments, through his own experiences with them.
Whatever happened to the heroes? Social Enterprise Magazine
A decade ago he wrote a book called The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, which first identified the new breed of people driving social change through business. Now, Charles Leadbeater asks what we have learned and where the movement might be heading in the next ten years.
in Governance, Finance and Accountability in Share area
Keystone - fostering learning and accountability
Keystone is a citizen organization that seeks to maximize the developmental impact (or value) of citizen organisations, 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.
Perspectives on the MDGs and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty - Bunker Roy paper from CIVICUS newsletter
This is a fascinating paper by Bunker Roy (a GLI Networker ) from the 01 August 2007 edition of the CIVICUS newsletter, Issue No. 350 - click on the link to read the paper in full.
in Food for Thought in Share area
Serge Ntamack artwork
My work is a vision of world's issues and realities through the eyes of a disturbed soul - who I can be sometimes. First and foremost, my artwork remains a means to reconcile myself with humanity.
Two Poems from new GLI Networker Ntamack Serge
in Networkers' Picture Gallery in Get Involved area
Serge Ntamack and Tony Saddington
in Links under Global: Experiential Learning heading in Share area
International Consortium for Experiential Learning ICEL http://www.icel.org.uk/
New GLI Networkers
August was another record and encouraging month, with over 50 new networkers from 20 different countries including our first from four new countries - Cambodia, Gambia, Trinidad and Tobago and Turkey. We now have nearly 800 networkers from 53 countries. Africa just exceeded the Indian sub-continents for the most new networkers, both some way ahead of others. As always we welcome all our new networkers and we hope you enjoy reading about some of them and their continuing amazing diversity. We are most proud that they all share with GLI the common cause and passion of making the world they live in a better place for others. (The full details of all new networkers can be seen on the GLI website, including their own websites where shown, on the most recent pages of networkers.)
Zengcheng Zhu - 'Children of Guizhou', Guizhou Province, China
Zengcheng is working for the above NGO in Southwest China.
Jeyaraj Susai - Rural Institute of Development Education, Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, India
RIDE fights child labour, promotes economic and social justice for women, provides health and educational services and cultivates economic opportunity throughout the region.
Faisal Rusdi - BILiC, Bandung, Indonesia
I am disabled and a mouth painter. BILiC gives support to other disabled people, provides advocacy and volunteer networking with information and referrals.
Kirk Wilson- The World Change Network, California, USA
The World Change Network provides Internet-based tools to enable social entrepreneurs, educators, and community leaders to plan and achieve their initiatives anywhere in the world.
Serge Ntamack - Issue Sud, Cameroon
I am 24 years of age and a poet and an artist who wants to share his skills and his gifts with others to contribute for a better world.Our organization is promoting social communication and entrepreneurship through a project such as the establisment of a street paper in our country. (See examples of Serge's work - see links above and on our website.)
Willy Walusimbi- Rural Health Care Foundation, Buwekula, Uganda
I am Project Resource Director of the above non-profit community based grassroots organisation formed to improve the health situation in rural areas of Uganda. (Please see full profile for the wide ranges of projects and serious health situations they tackle.)
Regina Hansda, India
A natural resource management professional into biodiversity conservation, indigenous communities, Gender issues, and community-based forest management.
Natalia Kiryttopoulou - Keystone, London, UK
I am an Adviser and Research Associate in Keystone which is a citizen organisation that seeks to maximise the development impact of citizen organisations, business and government through designing and promoting innovation, practical methods of planning, doing and communicating that foster learning and responsiveness.
Yakhyo Kayumov - Nagoya University, Japan
I am from Uzbekistan and I am a Master Student of the Graduate School of International Development. My interest is the role of civil society in governance.
Chen Qilun - Taiwan University, Taiwan
Doing his Masters, his major interest is the development of civil society in Greater China
Michael Oko Davies - Aid The Children Network, Gambia
I am the Executive Director and Co-Founder of ATCN. We are a professional forum consisting of individuals and organisations concerned with child abuses and neglect prevention. Our vision is a democratic society free from child abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Mosleh Ahmed - Microinsurance Research Centre, UK
A 'not-for-profit' privately funded by a few individuals conducting web-based research on microinsurance.
Alpha Amadu Jaloh - Youth Movement for Peace & Non-Violence, Sierra Leone
Officially launched in 2001 with the objective to affect a culture of non-violence, especially among youth who became victims or perpetrators of the decade old civil conflict in our country. We are determined now to effect a transformation from the culture of war to one of peace and non-violence. See our website for a range of practical projects.
Jenny Pearson - VBNK, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
I am the Founding Director of the leading capacity building organisation working in Cambodia. Our mission is to be a centre of learning, working creatively with the Cambodian social development sector in order to generate wisdom for positive change.
Abnet Debay - Oxfam Canada, Ethiopia
I am a project officer for Oxfam Canada-PACE Program for Ethiopia and Somalia/land
Kadiatou Diallo & Neo Muyanga - KWA, Capetown, South Africa
KWA uses imagination and conversation as tools for supporting ourselves and our community. We make music and visual art to help us share our ideas and ideals so we may grow together.
Ellen O'Malley Camps - Network of NGOs of Trinidad & Tobago & Brown Cotton Tent Theatre Ensemble, Trinidad & Tobago.
I am projects co-ordinator of the Network - a national umbrella organisation working to ensure gender equality, women's human rights, and the promotion of women's empowerment nationally, regionally and globally. Also Founder of not-for-profit ventures with Community and Theatre in Education vision.
Tony Saddington - International Consortium for Experential Learning, McGregor, South Africa
I do freelance training and consulting with NPOs, state and educational institutions.
Stephen Rwagweri - Engabu Za Tooro, Fort Portal Municipality, Uganda
A culture based NGO in Mid Western Uganda which targets youth with talent in order to develop their skills for sustainable livelihood, HIV/AIDS program and promoting human rights and good governance.
Elizabeth Riddiford - Community Conservation Initiative (CCI-Kenya), Fair Isle, Scotland, UK
CCI-Kenya is a small non-proft initiative providing project support and a link/voice/outreach facility for community/youth groups and supporting organisations involved with sustainable resource management issues, healthcare, education and the safeguarding of natural and cultural heritage in Kenya.
Kris Dev - Life-Line to Business, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
My organization specializes in implementing communication solutions for empowerment, productivity, transparency, accountability, poverty alleviation, etc.
R K Yadav - Steer Foundation, New Delhi, India
Very large Non-profit nationwide network of small NGOs in India. We work in the field of Science, Technology, Education, Environment & Research.
Yvonne Nyenty - Global Endowment, South West, Cameroon
New organisation to create awareness and empower youth to take up education and creativity.
Mustapha Hydara - The Association for Child Education (TAFCE-Gambia), South Korea
I am a Gambian born 31 year old currently living in South Korea. I support all initiatives that address problems of the poor and disadvantaged regardless of their nationality, religion or gender. I have been volunteering for my community and beyond for the past 15 years with strong community based and international charities.Volunteering is what I embraced and have passion for. I pioneered TAFCE-The Gambia in 1998 a voluntary community based rural youth organization promoting child education, health, welfare and the rights of children and their mothers. I am proud to join GLI and I hope to extend my arms in all means possible to make this world a better place.
Shree Maharjan - Society for Health, Environment & Women's Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
Since its founding in 1998, SHEWD has been dedicated to working for the interests of the poor in the community on issues of health, computer education, environment and womens empowerment. Living in the community, we came to know that there is unskilled and unemployed manpower in the local community. If they may be trained in a skill, then they could participate in income generating and could be employed.
Filiz Bikmen - Third Sector Foundation of Turkey (TUSEV), Istanbul, Turkey
TUSEV's Trustees share a vision of strengthening the legal,fiscal and operational capacity of the third sector in Turkey, with over 100 suppporting foundations. We encourage dialogue between private, Public and non-profit sectors.
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