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 [...]
Hello Changemakers! Our next cycle of project applications will start tomorrow and will run until 15 May. We will be accepting applications for regular CAPs, WBI CAPs and GAPs as well as the Rachel CAP. Some tips before you apply: - Use the Global Changemakers Project Management toolkit to make sure you went through every [...]
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 [...]
I was eating a fried chicken with rice and a bowl of vegetable soup when I saw an ironic news about a little girl who sells meatball everyday and only get paid Rp 2.000 or US$ 0,20/day ONLY IF she sells all the meatballs. The little girl will only get Rp 1.000 or US$ 0,10/day [...]
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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 [...]
The Government of developing and under develop countries has poor capability to do infrastructure development in their every area at a time being their financial crisis. However, everyone knows that infrastructure developments are the main factors of the economical growth for any country. If a country tries to upgrade their position from developing country to [...]
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 [...]
Although metropolitan youngsters of Bangladesh are in touch with rest of the world many are still limited to their local rural [...]
Why inequality? According to the first ever Human Development Report for Latin America and the Caribbean, ours is the most unequal [...]
Brother By My Side is a Global Changemakers Community Action Project, managed by Christopher Walcott, in the twin island Republic of Trinidad [...]
Shining Horizon was born out of the idea that tackling poverty at grassroots level would be the most effective way in [...]
Youth End Poverty (YEP) is an entirely youth led project that aims to give young people the skills knowledge and confidence [...]
Interconnected for Children is a Globalchangemakers project run by Patricia Kaiser and Elsabe van Vuuren. Over the past year they have [...]
http://www.joinhopeland.org We all come from different cultures, countries, races and have diverse beliefs. But there is one thing that can unite us [...]
”Creativity can change the world, and arts can reach people in a way nothing else can. It is the universal language [...]
Shining Horizon was born out of the idea that the most effective way to alleviate poverty was by tackling it at [...]
Latin America is one of the most unequal regions in the world. This is a reality that is shared throughout the [...]
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