Reports about regional activities prepared by members of SDIA.
2007 - Asociación Vivir: A French Woman in Ecuador
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Health,
Regional Reports
Mathilde Dybowsky spent five weeks volunteering at Asociación Vivir in Ecuador during the summer of 2007.
2007.08 - Mithra Foundation: The India Civil Society Summit
India now claims superpower status as a nuclear weapons state and nearly double-digit economic growth. In contrast to these signs of progress we have the dubious distinction of being on the wrong side of other indicators of human development—maternal mortality, female infanticide and foeticide, and deaths due to preventable diseases, to name several. India’s progress is uneven: while she is developing world-class technology and services; she also has has the world’s largest number of poor and illiterate people. For many, freedom—in its true sense—is yet to dawn. For these people, the struggle continues.
2008.10 - Flood in Desert devastates Ghardaïa, Algeria
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Community Development,
Regional Reports
On the day of the celebration of the Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), very
strong flooding took place in all the towns of the valley of the oued
(river) Mzab, of which Ghardaïa is the capital city, at around 600 km
south of Algiers in the middle of the Sahara desert.
2008.10 - Les inondations a Ghardaïa, Alger
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Community Development,
Regional Reports
Le jour de la fête de l'Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), de très fortes
inondations ont eu lieu dans toutes les villes de la vallée de l'oued
Mzab, dont la capitale est Ghardaïa, à environ 600 km au sud d'Alger.
2009.04 - Lessons from Doctors without Borders
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Health,
Regional Reports
In January 2009 Lusijah Marx, Luther Schutz, and Wendy Neal traveled to the South African township of Khayelitsha to learn from the experience of Doctors without Borders in creating the most effective and efficient use of human resources to deliver quality health care to empoverished victims of HIV/AIDS
2009.07 - Albadi News: School and Savings & Loan Co-op
All of the students at the Albadi School passed the national exams and a new Savings and Loan Co-operative has just been started.
2009.07 - Dernières nouvelles d'Albadi
2009.07 - Remembering a Call to Prayer
“…[in] a room full of land mine accident survivors, it came back to me: The
long mournful Call to Prayer from my Subud brother Salahin Thom, ‘Allahu Akbar.’
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”
2009.08 - Testing Yodigo Computer Learning in India
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Education,
Regional Reports
Yodigo is innovative new multimedia software that aims to deliver literacy fast in settings that are challenged by resource requirements. It is unique in its use of video and Flash design elements that make learning fun, its game-like reward system, and the fact that it can be delivered online or offline.
Oliver Zeilke had the opportunity to test this system at a government school of poor rural children near Madurai in Southern India. Here are some excerpts from his journal.
Oliver Zeilke had the opportunity to test this system at a government school of poor rural children near Madurai in Southern India. Here are some excerpts from his journal.