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 [...]

First Annual Water Champion Awardees Announced

World Water Monitoring Day™ program has announced the recipients of the first annual Water Champion awards. The Water Champion awards recognize superior levels of relevance, educational effort, support, and innovation in the promotion of water quality via involvement in World Water Monitoring Day.

Mr Kalaimani Supramaniam together with our president Thord when he and his school [...]

MKFC to World Expo 2010 in Shanghai

MKFC Helsinki College (Finnish blog) will participate and promote our model for Education for sustainable world at the Finnish Pavilion – World Expo 2010 in Shanghai May 1 to October 31, 2010. The expo is expected to attract 70 million visitors.
The theme of Expo 2010 is “Better City, Better Life,” representing the common wish of [...]