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Watch this quick video to learn about the Just and Fair School Fund’s grant awards, and the youth, parents, congregations, and teachers they support around the country.FeatureThe Just and Fair Schools Fund is pleased to announce $3.8 million in grants over two years to 35…

By Sibongile NkosiWinner Education AwardEqual Education The Khayelitsha–based Equal Education organisation began its work early in 2008 after a group of senior education ­activists, led by Zackie Achmat and ­Gauteng's ­former ­minister for education, Mary ­Metcalfe, identified the lack of equal and quality education as a major…

In Viet Nam, the shift in the burden of diseases from the infectious causes to chronic and behaviour-based illnesses requires effective health communication to be an essential component of public health interventions. Traditional information, education and communication campaigns developed by the government continue to be…

 Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche  | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m.  This was a problem for two reasons.  First, we’d…

By Lorna Siggins.  YOUNG IRISH people are turning away from political parties for more complex reasons than a general “despair and disillusionment”, according to the founder of a Galway-based national youth website. Advocacy and activism are seen as far more appealing than the “long, slow,…

Survey Finds Older Adults Suffering Due to Poor Coordination, Communication WASHINGTON, DC — April 8, 2010 — To ensure health reform works for those with the most at stake, the National Partnership for Women & Families, Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP)…

Four Leading Downsized Journalists Will Spend Nine Months Writing for CJR and Preparing for the Next Phase of Their Careers. Civic Ventures is an Atlantic grantee. NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2009 - The Columbia Journalism Review has selected four leading journalists as the first group…

BLOEMFONTEIN, 25 February 2009 (PlusNews) - Last week, regulars at the HIV treatment clinic at Pelonomi hospital, in Bloemfontein, capital of South Africa's Free State Province, would have told you that the clinic has never been this quiet. Ever since the provincial government stopped initiating…

Acclaimed oral history project encourages Americans to interview a loved one the day after Thanksgiving NEW YORK StoryCorps, the most ambitious oral history project ever undertaken, will launch the first annual National Day of Listening on November 28, 2008. On Thanksgiving, Americans and their loved…

by CLARE NULLIS AIDS activists are celebrating the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths by promoting nutritional supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV. New President Kgalema Motlanthe, within hours of taking office Thursday, won instant praise…