MKFC Stockholm College at eLearning Africa 2008

This week six persons from MKFC Stockholm College are going to Ghana to participate at eLearning Africa and the opening of National Africa Foundations (NAF) in Kumasi.
“eLearning Africa has established itself as the largest and most comprehensive capacity-development event for technology-enhanced education and training on the Continent. Initiated in May 2006 in Addis Ababa under [...]

“Brown gold” changes women’s lives

“Brown gold”. That is what the Ideal Woman Shea Butter and Pickers Association, a women’s co-operative in Ghana, now calls the shea nuts that form the basis of their livelihood.
The nuts are used to produce shea butter that has become very popular in the global cosmetics industry. A combination of hard labour and a sudden [...]

WIPO Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

Upcoming WIPO Conferences, Meetings and Seminars during the weeks of May 19, 2008 to June 1, 2008
Upcoming Events (in Geneva)

WIPO Audit Committee – Ninth Meeting (WO/AC/9)
May 19, 2008 to May 22, 2008 (Geneva, Switzerland)

Seminar on Intellectual Property and Creative Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Digital Environment (WIPO/SMES/GE/08)
May 20, 2008 to May 22, [...]

Sanitation is everybody’s business!

One of the most important key questions when it comes to development is sanitation and hygiene. Ethiopia has one of the lowest sanitation coverages in the world, with only 13 percent of the population having access to latrine facilities.
That is part of the reason why UNICEF has taken the initiative to a rural sanitation [...]

UN Mother’s Day donations and the MKFC Stockholm College empowerment of women and children

The UN Foundation has worked for ten years, to empower women and promote access to reproductive and sexual health services around the world. MKFC Stockholm College strongly supports the work for womens’ and childrens’ good health and better living conditions by education and information activities
One UN focus continues to be improving the lives of the [...]

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