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Oct 22nd, 2008 - 18:27:01 |
Henry Ekwuruke
Over 1,000 young people stood up against poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals in Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria on the 17th Day of October, 2008.
May 22nd, 2008 - 14:54:32 |
Henry Ekwuruke
An elderly woman sits under one of the few scrawny trees in a parched landscape as she and 8,000 other displaced people wait for aid workers to begin handing out some 100 tonnes of flour, salt, sugar, and cooking oil.
The woman's name is Hawa Brahim and the displaced site is Koloma, near the town of Goz Beida in Chad's southwest. Brahim said that she has no idea how the food arrived here. "They bring it; we eat it," she says. "All I know is that back in my hut I have ten hungry mouths that need feeding," she said. More than 50,000 tonnes of international food aid finds its way to this remote region each year to feed hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians. But how does it get there?
The process starts by identifying the need then designing a food aid package, requesting donations, purchasing the food, transporting it, assessing its impact, reporting back to donors and doing it all over again.
At each stage there are complications, Moumini Ouedraogo, WFP deputy country director in Chad said. "People don't understand how it works, not even our partners," he said. "(They think it is as if) you walking into a shop and buy a few cans [but] it's not like that at all," he said. "It's a very long process." The time it takes between when a donor decides to donate food and the moment the recipient receives it can take more than one year.
May 22nd, 2008 - 14:52:09 |
Henry Ekwuruke
Dear Colleague:
Alliance Library System, in cooperation with LearningTimes, will offer a one-day online conference exploring the possibilities of using virtual worlds to teach history and to promote its appreciation. The conference - entitled "Stepping into History: Exploring the Past through Virtual Worlds" - will be held entirely in the virtual world of Second Life on June 10, 2008. "In-World" online attendance at the conference is limited to 60 participants, however you may also choose to attend via the virtual classroom simulcast.
The cost is $45 USD per person. Registration is available at the website:
http://www.steppingintohistory.org
The highly interactive experience will include "field trips" into historical locations that have been created in Second Life. We will explore 19th century America, where participants will meet Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln; Virtual Harlem, to hear live music from the Jazz Age/Harlem Renaissance; and Renaissance Island, for a Shakespearean play in a replica of London’s Globe Theatre. Everyone will discuss what they have experienced with simulation creators and other conference participants.
The conference will continue with a panel discussion with a variety of experts and a late afternoon photo workshop. The program concludes with a period ball at the Lincoln era White House.
For more information and to register, please visit http://www.steppingintohistory.org .
And to keep up with LearningTimes activities in 3D Worlds visit:
http://www.learningtimes.net/3D
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