Global Changemakers

As you are probably aware of, we have just completed our Spring 2012 Cycle of Project applications. We were really pleased to receive such a large number of applications and are currently deciding which initiatives we will support. The results will be published here on 31 May for CAPs, GAPs and WBI-CAPs.   The annual [...]

In 1948 Eleanor Roosevelt predicted that human rights would creep like “a curious grapevine” into public conciousness around the globe.Dismissed at that time as utopian fantasy, her forecast has proven more prescient than the scepticism of her critics. The prepositions that all human beings- whatever their nationality, culture, or location possess specific inalienable rights simply [...]

It’s a Chichewa word for ‘we should lighten up/brighten up/glow/wisen/get motivated/be inspired’, Chichewa verbs tend to imply a lot… and yes we imply all these but for an impoverished young woman population in Malawi! Here is a little peak into our verb ‘Tiwale’: 65 percent of Malawians live below the poverty line of less than [...]

We are going to turn 8 billion very soon but ever we wondered that half of the world population is living below poverty line! A billion losing lives for hunger and twice getting even less than US$ 1 a day. Where there is arrogance and hatred in this world, in darkness of hopelessness there are [...]

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE YOUTHS IN ZIMBABWE: An Overview Zimbabwe and the Southern African region has experienced gross abuses of human rights and this has impacted on development in all sectors of life, politically, economically and socially. There are widespread reports of systematic and escalating violations of human rights in the region and in Zimbabwe [...]

New to the Global Changemakers community? Looking for people working on similar issues and in the same region? Check out our Facebook groups! Our Facebook fan page can be found here – and if you want to join any of the groups, follow the links below: Issues Anti-corruption Children’s rights Conflict resolution Education Environment Human [...]

ZUNA OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE VISIT TO WFUNA Let me start by Congratulating the Zimbabwe United Nations Association Team and myself in achieving this long awaiting exposure that was presented to us on Friday the 24th of March in New York on my official meeting with the WFUNA President and the Youth Delegation that consisted [...]

It will be contented, surely, there must be certain objectives in this world which each and everyone of us wants to achieve, for instance, we want to pass our examinations; we want jobs and promotions; we want fame, etc; we want to have money in reasonable and unreasonable quantity to enable us to discharge such [...]

One of my favourite movies of all time was Slumdog Millionaire. I loved that movie, not only because it was filmed in India, a country I’m so fascinated by; not only because it talked about the unwitting intelligence of a young man, an idea that inspires me; not only because it affirmed the truth that [...]

We are happy  to announce the Winter 2012 grantees for CAPs and GAPs. On our first ever cycle of applications given out this time of the year; we received twice as many applications as grants available. Once again we were really happy to see how engaged our Changemakers are in their communities and how innovative [...]