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Gauteng needs at least R5-billion to turn around its health system, a local government minister said on Wednesday. Gauteng health minister Brian Hlongwa said many people did not realise the "scale and scope of the challenges" the department faced. "If you ask me a ballpark…

Link to Video Recently two Atlantic grantees were featured in media coverage on the 9 February 2009 edition of the RTÉ television programme, " Nationwide." Big Brother Big Sister (5:45)Orla Nix looks at the youth mentoring programme operated by Foróige, the National Youth Development Organisation Pioneering Initiative (Archways)…

Communities in Schools is an Atlantic grantee. by Dave Moore & Bill Manville BILL: In my Greenwich Village drinking days, everybody knew "Marvin." If you wanted a couple of tires for your car, maybe a new TV set, you called him and "put in your…

WASHINGTON, DC Today, First Focus, a bipartisan children's advocacy organization, expressed serious disappointment over the proposed deal in the United States Senate regarding the economic recovery package. Specifically, a recent analysis by the organization has found that in the Senate, more that 45 percent of…

by Sue Lappeman TO quote Ernie from Sesame Street: ``One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong, can you tell me which thing is not like the others by the time I finish my song?'' Organ donor,…

by CHRISTINA TAYLOR SOUTH AFRICA can gain from offering more resources and legitimacy to immigrants, academics suggest, but the country's citizens meanwhile suffer from restrictions on the rights of foreign nationals. According to a draft submission by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Wits University to the…

Susan Carey Dempsey.When Ted Turner made an historic announcement of a billion dollar pledge to the United Nations a decade ago, he wished out loud that lists of most generous donors would become as competitive as lists of the World's Richest. While there's some understandable…

Original Source Boston College has announced a $3.5 million grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to expand the consumer-directed healthcare program at the college's Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL). The Cash and Counseling program at CSHCL matches counselors with individuals who want to design…

Original Source By: Ashley Schneider The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a $3.5 million grant to Kevin Mahoney, a professor in the graduate school of social work and director of the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (CSHCL), to help the center's Cash & Counseling Program…

JOHANNESBURG, 26 January 2009 (PlusNews) - For many women, pregnancy is a time of anticipation and celebration, but for those living positively it can be frustrating when their status – and not their pregnancy – takes centre stage. Being pregnant and positive often comes with…