6,000,000 Teachers needed to Achieve World Primary Education Goals Seeking a Career, Take Action NOW !!! 5 October 2011 – The United Nations marked World Teachers’ Day today with a warning that 6.1 million more teachers are needed to meet the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of attaining universal primary education by 2015. Two million of these are additional posts, with sub-Saharan Africa alone accounting for more than half. But the … [Read more...]
Irina Bokova ~ 6,000,000 Teachers needed to achieve MDGs
UNGEI – Education for Girls in Yemen
In Yemen, one female student is speaking out for girls’ education IBB, Yemen, 4 October 2011 - There is a spirit of harmony in one classroom packed with teenage students at the Al-Hussein Ben Ali School in Al-Mazahin; where the boys happily take their place on the floor, leaving the few available desks for the girls. “As long as our sisters keep coming to school, we have no problem sitting on the floor,” said Ismail, 15, as the other boys around him all nodded in … [Read more...]
Hope Development Park – EMERGENCY!!!
If there ever was a time that YOUR HEART wanted to GIVE to OTHERS, here is the moment .... WOMAN of ACTION, Dr. Shabnam Nazli is facing EMERGENCY SITUATION. PLEASE Take Action NOW! COPY OF LETTER RECEIVED TODAY ... from Dr. Shabnam Nazli. A Celebration of Women, I want to make an apology to those who have stood beside Hope Development. Due to our critical financial situation due to the lack of funds, Hope Development will need to close its doors at this time. … [Read more...]
UNESCO and Procter & Gamble launch partnership !!!
UNESCO and Procter & Gamble launch partnership to promote education for young girls and young women UNESCO and the multinational consumer product company Procter & Gamble’s Always brand have launched a partnership to promote literacy for young girls and young women. The announcement coincides with International Literacy Day, 8 September. “A major world corporation like Procter & Gamble can give added impetus to our drive for global literacy,” said the … [Read more...]
Celebrating INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY – Sept. 8, 2011
INTERNATIONAL-LITERACY-DAY Educational institutions and literacy missions around the world commemorates the International Literacy Day on September 8. Endorsed by UNESCO, this day is proclaimed for disseminating literacy awareness amongst world's illiterate community. Recognition of Literacy by UN Adopted in the year 1965 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Literacy Day is observed every year, on this … [Read more...]
Ginger Katz is Taking Action ! …in the News!
In The News! Students have courage to say 'drugs aren't part of the plan' Emcee Lawrence F. Cafero, Jr., CT House Minority Leader and State Representative, holds the microphone for Zane Brown, a fourth grader at Brookside Elementary School, as he reads a letter he wrote as part of the Courage to Speak Drug Prevention Curriculum for Elementary Schools at the 7th Annual Courage to Speak Empowering Youth to be Drug Free Family Night at West Rocks Middle School in … [Read more...]
Shirlee Hall: Sharing Knowledge Newsletter, April 2011
FLYING FREE! I believe everyone desires to be free. The trouble lies in not understanding what freedom is. In my opinion, I will tell you what it is not. Freedom has absolutely nothing to do with manipulation of others, laws, events, countries or consciousness. Freedom is sorely lacking in our court system, medical profession, schools, home or anywhere else for that matter on this planet. I am speaking of the type of freedom that occurs and manifests through a realized soul, an awakened, … [Read more...]
INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY – Around the Globe Events
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day on March 8, 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Celebration of Women has found some fun events for the Women of our World: Take Action and have FUN! We invite you to join tens of thousands of people coming together on bridges all over the world -- from the Millennium Bridge in London, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, to the Grand Barriere Bridge joining Rwanda and … [Read more...]
Teachers' Strike in Bahrain
Teacher's Strike in Bahrain This morning on CityPulse, I saw that there was a teachers' strike in Bahrain. There was a shot of Arab women sitting in an empty classroom. I watched videos and learned that today the Teacher’s Union in Bahrain called for a general one day strike. Many women were crowded into the classrooms of Duraz Primary Girls' School, voicing their thoughts. Dressed in black, some with their faces covered, they looked sombre. Their angry faces and gestures reflected … [Read more...]
Haiti Celebrating: 'National School Meal Programme' enables girls to learn.
Marie Anika, 8, wants to work in a bank when she grows up. At the moment, however, she lives in a tent where her house used to be before the earthquake. But that hasn’t stopped her from going to school or dreaming about the future thanks to the hearty meals she eats everyday in class. ___________________________________________________________ PORT-AU-PRINCE—Marie Anika, 8, says she’d like to work in a bank when she grows up. She has never actually been in one but her aunt has told her about … [Read more...]