Monday 28 June 2010 by Lara Brearley
The fact that the European Commission hosted a conference to discuss and assert their role in global health should be celebrated.
A range of stakeholders were involved alongside high level speakers such as Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The stated objectives were to drive forward coherence and define recommendations for taking the Commission’s Communique forward.
The major messages coming out of the conference were all very positive
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Tuesday 20 April 2010 by Brian Jungwiwattanaporn
With 24 young people from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam crowded into a room the energy was palpable.
As I entered the conference room, I saw one group working together to create a performance piece on the resilience of children.
Given just 20 minutes, and despite an inability to communicate fluently with each other, they produced a fabulous short story which then led into a discussion on the dignity of children.
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Wednesday 10 February 2010 by Helen Pinnock
Teaching children in a languages they don’t use at home is causing big problems with school dropouts, exam failures and pupils not achieving their potential, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Find out what’s being done to tackle the issue and add your voice to the debate on what should be done to stop language being a barrier to learning for millions of children.
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Wednesday 11 February 2009 by Lynn Walker
We started the February distribution of food aid this morning. The distribution I visited was in the vicinity of one of the schools I had visited yesterday. When I got out of the vehicle I met the lone teacher who was on duty yesterday. He had come to ask if he and his family could be included in the feeding programme because, as he had told me before, he has not been able to pick up his paltry pay for months.
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