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SMILE AFRICA FOUNDATION ~ E-WASTE

15 Jahren
by in SOCIAL PROJECTS

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www.computerrecyclingsociety.org

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Electronic waste, e-waste, e-scrap, or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) describes loosely discarded, surplus, obsolete, broken, electrical or electronic devices. The processing of electronic waste in developing countries causes serious health and pollution problems because electronic equipment contains some very serious contaminants such as lead, cadmium, beryllium and brominated flame retardants. Even in developed countries recycling and disposal of e-waste involves significant risk to workers and communities and great care must be taken to avoid unsafe exposure in recycling operations and leaching of material such as heavy metals from landfills and incinerator ashes. Read More: > HERE <

About CRSC – What is the Computer Recycling Society of Canada? – CRSC is a non-profit, community minded organization whose vision is to promote computer literacy for all people with emphasis on helping other charitable and non-profit groups. We provide affordable, refurbished computers and training programs to needful individuals and organizations locally and worldwide. Our main project focus is our work with the „Smile Africa Foundation“ to provide computer labs to schools throughout Africa. www.smileafrica.org

Who is involved? – Corporations, government and individuals all donate used computer equipment to our Society. Experienced computer technicians and educators in computer fundamentals, with the generous assistance of community volunteers, operate our facilities and run our programs.

Why is the Computer Recycling Society Necessary? – To fill a gap in computer education and to make computers available to people of all ages, across all income groups, through the auspices of other established, non-profit community organizations in your community and in developing countries.

WHERE can you make a difference? – If you have any computers or parts no longer useful to you or your company, we will refurbish and redistribute them to local and international communities through charitable organizations.

How can you Help? – We are always looking for people willing to volunteer their time and talents; repairing and teaching; picking up and delivering. All that’s required is enthusiasm and a desire to learn and help others.

SMILE AFRICA’s vision is based on three core principles: Literacy, Learning and Leadership; enabling partner communities (in Africa) to improve their human factor capacity for change, and to build a world fashioned more equitably.

2009 -2015 priorities include providing books, libraries and resources to foster quality education and help children and families refine and unfold their potential as leaders, thinkers and contributors of society.

beCAUSE™ 2015 Campaign – SMILE AFRICA’s beCAUSE™ campaign focuses on three achievable goals of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). If each one of us can play a small role along with leading organizations and world governments, we can combat illiteracy and poverty, and bring change to a significant portion of the human family.

Achievable Goals:

  • Our MDGs Priorities by 2015:
  • Provide one million books to help school children achieve literacy, and build libraries and schools in partnership with their communities.
  • Improve the living conditions of vulnerable populations, e.g., via training and access to clean water and basic sanitation.
  • Empower women via leadership and economic development; giving them resources to prevent poverty-related risks such as: hunger, infant illnesses and mortality. Read more…www.smileafrica.com

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AFRICA´s MEDICINE

15 Jahren
by in Ayurveda, Pflanzen&Gewürze, Trad. & Indigenous Medicine

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THE HEALING METHODS OF AFRICA´s MEDICINE

 

The healing methods and medicine developed in Africa differs in many aspects from western medicine. Western medicine is technically and analytically based, while the traditional African medicine takes a holistic approach.

It is believed that good health, disease, success or misfortune are not chance occurrences but arise from the actions of individuals and ancestral spirits according to the balance or imbalance between the individual and the social environment.

Traditionally, every rural African community would have a traditional medical practitioner, to which they would go for advice on a number of issues, including health-problems. These traditional “doctors” have an invaluable botanical knowledge of plant species and their ecology and scarcity.

The community would rely upon this knowledge, as well as the spiritual and practical skills of the traditional healer, since they themselves were not allowed to gain this knowledge.

NOURISHING BOTANICALS: www.nourishingbotanicals.com 

  • is filled with the bounties of the earth and the simple things many take for granted.
  • is open to working with like minded professionals and communities to help resolve health disparities that we face globally.
  • calls you to live your life fully with plant medicine under the guidance of a professionally trained practioner to provide health support for healing and wellbeing.
  • specializes in green conciousness: herbal medicine, nutrition, wellness counseling, education and workshops, as well as, custom tailored formulations from our growing apothecary.

 

UK Rights Group Expands ‘Dirty List’ of Companies with Ties to Myanmar Army

5 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Health service is always dedicated to the patients.

5 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

„The „United as One Family“ campaign is conducted in Xinjiang everywhere…

6 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

New briefing note on #LandDisputes in #Cambodia, outlining 7 key areas

6 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Today @eurodad and partners are issuing another wake up call to the @WorldBank & others. Check out the report #HistoryRePPPeated:

6 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Great to see discussions at the People’s Summit on Alternative Development in Bali, hearing about policy, practise and responsibility involved in historical debt around the IMF and World Bank. #AM2018Bali

Today is the 2nd International Day for Universal Access to Information

6 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

What Will the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s Report Mean for Rohingya?

6 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

THE REFUGEE’S RIGHT TO RETURN HOME

6 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

@ECCHRBerlin 10 years anniversary

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

IFC’s claimed immunity is fundamentally at odds with its anti-poverty mission

The IFC’s stated “mission is to fight poverty,” while doing “no harm” to people or the environment. The IFC developed its Sustainability Framework, which dictates the conditions of IFC involvement in projects and the obligations of both the borrower and of the IFC, to ensure that these projects promote positive development objectives while protecting local communities and the environment.

The Tata Mundra power plant project was supposed to provide affordable energy and improve the quality of life and standard of living of Gujarat’s poor. But the project has been, and remains, a failure. The project has failed to comply with the IFC’s Performance Standards and the other environmental and social conditions of the loan agreement, and it has pushed many of the surrounding communities further into poverty, made them sick, destroyed their means of supporting their families, and made their environment dirtier and more dangerous. It has also been a financial disaster, operating at a loss for its entire existence (the company announced last year it was trying to offload a majority of its shares for 1 rupee – less than 2 cents) and the company has sought to pass these costs off to consumers.

Not everything can go private

There’s a strong debate on the role of for-profit companies in some areas, particularly public services like education and health.

Kenyan civil society has raised serious concerns over the IFC’s role supporting Bridge International Academies, a chain of private schools with a troubling record. They’re not alone. Research into other for-profit school providersbacked by the IFC shows these schools don’t work for the poorest communities.

In the health sector, Oxfam found that the IFC’s billion-dollar “Health in Africa” initiative mostly went to expensive, high-end urban hospitals. This is even more troubling given that poor and rural communities are disproportionately made up of women and girls.

The Bank says it will expand the “cascade” approach to health and education, but we’re doubtful this will help increase access, equity and quality for such services. Instead of approaching this with a “private-first” ideology, the Bank should lay out the criteria for when it actually makes sense for the private sector to be involved.

How to raise the funds needed

So if the private sector isn’t appropriate for everything, where do resources come from, particularly for investments in human capital?

We’d like to see the Bank place even more emphasis on “domestic resource mobilization,” development-speak for how countries collect tax and other government revenue.

CSOs urge IFC to divest from for-profit school chain

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Government of #Bangladesh pens a Letter to the Editor on piece about #HumanRights conditions in the country.

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS
Yankuba ist erst 20 Jahre alt.
Yankuba war nie kriminell, stets pünktlich, verlässlich und ehrlich.
Yankuba besucht Deutschkurse und eine Schule.
Yankuba liebt Musik.

Burma, calling out ethnic cleansing for what it is

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Those deeply involved in the tech revolution are already mapping out Industry4.0 or the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Davos World Economic Forum associated Industry1.0 to the steam age, the second to the electrical age, the third to the Digital Revolution and the Fourth to new Internet of Industry. Today, technological breakthroughs in robotics, nano-technology, biotechnology and artificial intelligence create new goods and services, requiring new forms of governance.

In the light of profound changes in technology, climate change and our understanding of inequality and global imbalances, the time has come to take stock and help emerging markets understand what options there are for development in the New Economy.

In short, Development4.0 is not about more money, but how to live happily, peacefully and prosperously in harmony with each other, nature and continually to evolve with technology and each other. Development4.0 is not going to be a one-size-fit-all model, but diverse ways to think about the future of man. Mapping these pathways would be an achievement in itself.

Private banks might be used to keep information confidential to protect their clients. But EBRD loans are public money and banking secrecy rules have to be modified in order to acknowledge the fact that the public has a right to monitor these financial flows.

Already before the last board meeting in October, the EBRD received 27 percent of all GCF finances. With the last large project the share will be even higher. Add to that other international financial institutions and what is left for direct beneficiaries is becoming less and less.

The report also states that it takes approximately 29.8 days for both men and women to start a business in India, compared to 28.5 days last year. India stood at 156th for “starting a business.”

The IFC provided a $450-million loan for the construction of the Tata Mundra plant in India. Following the IFC’s failure to take necessary reasonable steps to prevent harm in the affected community as is required in terms of its own policy (the Policy on Social and Environmental Sustainability and the Performance Standards) the plant project destroyed the local marine environment, fish populations and sources of water used for drinking and irrigation.

When the affected Indian community tried to sue the IFC in the United States, where the head office of IFC is based, the court declared that the IFC had immunity and therefore could not be sued.

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