...Wedding blog . The guest writer couple explain it much better than someone who only gives to charity for others' birthdays ever could, but in summary: you buy a goat for a special needs kid in Africa who would normally be hidden away, give them status in their society, make them feel less alone and educate them, their family and their village on their needs and potential, plus they get a goat...
Originally published at A Thousand News.com . Please leave any comments there. As thousands flee a new outbreak of violence in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the...to be preparing an assault on the city of Goma, where 22 rebel groups, including Nkunda’s, signed a January 2008 agreement to bring peace to the war-ravaged region.
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... King Leopold's Ghost , about the Congo. But now I know. And that's important. And it's important enough that other people should know too. I already loved the legacy- the promise- the HOPE that is Africa, but DRC? The inhumanity of it. The sheer inhumanity of it. I can't put it into words. I can't even talk in complete sentences. I'm typing too fast for my encrypted keystroke programme to catch...
A rural community in the predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria is witnessing a significant increase in the use of modern family planningmethods and contraceptives. Women in Zakarai village, in Kano...the population could double in less than 25 years. The fast growing population has been cited as one of the reasons for endemic poverty in oil-rich Nigeria. Source : VOA news, 29 October 2008
...person was a nerd in high school, and that studying abroad and unpaid internships are essential parts of the white experience. Unfortunately, I also learned that mentioning you studied abroad in Africa is a conversation killer because then you make the white people feel bad that they were too scared to go there. Luckily, they posted a formula to create your own experience to share. So, here's...
Woman in Niger enslaved as child; successfullysues government for freedom . Fucking A. Not even getting into the horrors of what happened to her (and many other women like her), I just hope I can be half as awesome as this woman before I die.
...use, and chickens flapping and squawking in the next carriage. I don’t know how I will go home now. I fear the sounds I am to hear in Sydney. I feel at home in the naturalsilence, and noise of Africa. It is home. In 6 hours we will move from this unimaginable train, to the bus, which will travel through the towns. I hope our friends at the fourth market are there. They have never left home,...
...warm and dry. It is not silent, but the sounds are supposed to be there. Last night was my first night sleeping in our tent-cabin, deep in the African desert. We are somewhere between Kenya and South Africa, and are on a journey from the latter to the first, and back again. We have travelled by multiple means, ranging from train, to rickety old bus, to an open-roofed Jeep type vehicle from the road...
