Discussions about environment and learning in Malaysia

Yesterday Mr Kalaimani Supramaniam, Asias ENO coordinator and Mr Balu Perumal, Coordinator – Forest and Biodiversity Programme for the Global Environment Centre visited MKFC Stockholm College.
Kalaimani and Balu are in Sweden for a conference in Uppsala, and we are very glad that they found the time to visit us and tell about their incredible [...]

Free education for children in India

On April 1, a Right to Education Act (RTE) came into effect in India, giving all children between the ages of 6 and 14 the right to free, compulsory education. For many young girls, however, many difficulties still remain when it comes to schooling, reports TIME Magazine.
Girls often have to take care of siblings or [...]

Mobile phones bring news to remote areas in India

Only 2% of mainstream media in India is covering issues of the country’s poor tribal populations. But now, a new project using mobile phones is about to change all that, reports BBC.
In many rural and tribal areas of India, literacy rates are low and newspapers are thus not widespread, nor are internet connections and private [...]

Polio Camp at Faisal Public School Multan, Pakistan

Mr. Babar is MKFC teacher training student. He is working as teacher in Faisal Public School Multan, Pakistan.
Health and cleanliness is an important theme of MKFC teacher training course where students learn to practice this approach in their authentic learning environment.
During his project Mr. Babar arranged a Polio vaccination camp in his school and made [...]

Improving the lives of slum dwellers

227 million people worldwide have been able to move out of slum areas to better living conditions since 2000, according to a new report from UN Habitat.
This positive development means that the Millennium Development target of improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers before 2015 has been surpassed. In countries such as China and [...]

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