GHANA RURAL PROGRAMME FOR BETTER INCOMES AND IMPROVED FOOD SECURITY

The Ghana programme aims to improve the livelihood of the rural poor people in the country

More than 2,250 Ghana cedis have been spent on the implementation of the Root and Tuber Improvement and Marketing Programme (RTIMP) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in the Obuasi Municipality, northwest of Accra. The city has about [...]

VACCINATION PROGRAMME IN PAKISTAN

Example of education picture in English or Urdu, easy to understand also for illiterate people taking part in the MKFC initiated Community Action Plans activities in Pakistan
Still many people are opposed giving children vaccination against polio because of extremists campaining against administering polio drops. This is largely on the basis of superstition and a belief [...]

World water day 2008

This week, the annual World Water Week will be held in Stockholm. Over 170 different organizations will meet to discuss water issues and how they relate to health, environment and poverty alleviation.
The theme this year is sanitation, health and hygiene – in fact, 2008 is the International Year of Sanitation – and one of [...]

MKFC CELEBRATED eLEARNING REPORT ON THE PAKISTAN NATIONAL DAY

Above the MKFC e-learning experts and below Alamdar Khan at the presentation of his report
Alamdar Khan, Master of Economics and e-Commerce and a MKFC-Trainee, has worked out a report on the education system and the potential for e-learning in Pakistan
The report describes the prospects of e-learning in Pakistan and big expectations on e-learning as well as a [...]

Increasing numbers of women in many African parliaments

Several African countries are leading the way towards an increasing female representation in parliaments worldwide, reports UNICEF.
As a way of recognising the very central role women play in national development, many African governments have implemented quotas in order to boost the number of women parliamentarians. In Rwanda, nearly half of the parliamentarians are women (compare [...]