Archive for June, 2008

Which countries have the lowest press freedom rankings? »

Which countries have the worst press freedoms? An annual study by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders has measured the level of press freedom in 169 countries.
The 20 countries with the lowest press freedom rankings for 2007 are listed below:

Sharing Resources Worldwide recycles medical goods »

Sharing Resources Worldwide (SRM), based in Madison, Wisconsin, is a nonprofit organization, founded in 2002 by two registered nurses, Lisa Fernandez and Mary Dowling, to make surplus and recycled medical supplies, equipment and related medical services available to needy populations around the world.
Since 2002, SRM has provided over $11,200,000 in total value to their missions and [...]

Give2Asia offers many services for donors of Asian aid »

Give2Asia (San Francisco) has a presence in 21 countries in Asia and offers many services to help donors customize their giving. Special projects now support China’s earthquake relief efforts and aid to Burma (Myanmar) cyclone victims.
Donors can choose to give to:
Hosted Funds - select from a variety of hosted funds.

Project Concern providing medical and poverty solutions »

Project Concern International (PCI), based in San Diego, CA, works in Asia, the Americas and Africa to bring better health and hope to children living in poverty. In 1961, a young doctor from San Diego, Dr. Jim Turpin, volunteered at a Tijuana, Mexico clinic, and saved two children who were dying of pneumonia.
Dr. Turpin later [...]

What is the best country in the world? The worst country? »

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has released its 2007-2008 Human Development Index Ratings for 177 countries.
Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada and Ireland have the 5 highest ratings.
Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Mali have the 5 worst ratings.
How does the USA rank? What is the Human Development Index?

Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Program aims to assist 5-billion »

Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Program has a mission to enable sustained social and economic opportunity for the more than 5 billion people at the middle and bottom of the world’s economic pyramid … those that do not have the opportunity to utilize computers and modern technologies to learn, connect, create and succeed.
By 2015, the short term [...]

World peace … through … Hip Hop? »

H-Kayne, MC Bigg, DJ Key, Mot de Passe, Brownfingaz, Fnaire … Moroccan hip hop artists … are bridging the gap between Western and Arab-Muslim cultures. The I Love Hip Hop in Morocco festival, the 2005 pilot program of The Hip Hop Diplomacy Project, is the first in a series of concerts that seek to harness [...]

Interactive Panwapa - teaching young children global citizenship »

The creators of Sesame Street and the Merrill Lynch Foundation have created an interactive website … Panwapa… to help young children become responsible global citizens and develop new skills and perspectives in an increasingly interconnected world.
Panwapa (meaning ‘here on this earth’ in the Tshiluba language) aims to foster global citizenship and community activism in children ages 4 [...]

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