Fighting for gender equality: What’s it like being a woman today?

A recent event in New York marked the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, an important framework for achieving gender equality around the world.
During the event, which was organized by UNICEF, Donnady Coquilla Lao, a youth advocate from the Phiippines, argued that the gains in gender equity had not lived up to expectations, [...]

Documentaries from MKFC Student Maria in Kenya

This is a documentary of the environment of Baringo district in Kenya made by Maria Kreshel a ChangeMaker student at MKFC.
See more documentaries at Marias Youtube Channel.

Chile relief efforts coordinated from Kenya, using online mapping tool

Within an hour of the massive earthquake in Chile, relief efforts were coordinated from as far away as Kenya – 12,000 km from the location of the quake. How is that possible? The answer is a crisis group called Ushahidi and its effective online mapping tool, reports BBC.
Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was [...]

World food security and the global economic crisis

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009
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This presentation, based on the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2009, deals with world food security and the global economic crisis. More people are hungry today than at any point since 1970, [...]

Mobile health solutions for West Africa

MHealth Alliance (picture source) and Orange Healthcare team up to develop mobile health solutions for West Africa.
At the GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Orange Healthcare announced last week that they will be joining the mHealth Alliance, a partnership which leverages rapid advances in mobile technology to improve public health, health care systems and patient [...]