Month: June 2022

Top global development NGOs in South Africa: A primer

As South Africa assumes a more active role in the development of its continent, so do the country’s many nongovernmental organizations. Subscribe to Newswire A comprehensive look at the day’s top global development breaking news, analysis, and opinion Email South Africa’s Department of Social Development serves as the government’s main provider of social assistance to …

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Society for Telemedicine and E-Health in Nigeria.

SPEAKER’S PROFILE   DR. JOSEPH AWOLOLA Dr. Joseph Awolola is the founder, President Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria.  He is the first Nigerian to become member of the International Society for Telemedicine and ehealth (Switzerland), member Africa Telehealth Group Canada. He was born on 7 April 1975. He attended National Electric Power Authority …

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Youth Education and Leadership Initiative (YELI)

About us Summary: Youth Education and Leadership Initiative (YELI) is a Non-profit and Non-Governmental organization formed out of a pressing desire to rescue a succeeding generation of the human person from education related problems and leadership challenges. YELI is a ten-man board of advisory youth development and empowerment focused organization registered with the Corporate Affairs …

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The unreported crisis leaving older people in East Africa hungry

Four consecutive rainy seasons across East Africa have now failed, with this year’s March-May rainy season thought to have been the driest on record. For the millions of pastoralists who survive on herding their livestock and growing their crop, the dry period has devastated their livelihoods. Crops and livestock are dying at an unprecedented rate …

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The KIEK foundation reaches out to the vulnerable in FCT and South East.

The KIEK foundation has reached out to several vulnerable families living around the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and the South Eastern part of Nigeria through the 3rd edition of its Compassion Action Outreach. The 3rd edition of the outreach is part of the foundation’s effort to alleviate the challenges that will be faced by the …

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Clean Cooking Alliance

Organization Total Care Unit Mission Our mission is to ensure the total empowerment of citizens to have self-esteem to actualize their rights in all spheres of society and thus become agents of change on their own behalf with a view to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Organizational Expertise Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity …

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In Côte d’Ivoire, HIV Is Just Another Chronic Disease

When Amoin Agnès Akou learned she was HIV-positive, she worried—to the point of considering suicide—that people would find out. Even as she sought treatment, she kept her HIV status secret. Until recently. “My three grown-up children do not know I am HIV-positive,” she divulged during a health club meeting at the Centre de Santé Urbain Confessionnel (CSUC) …

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Corruption in oil revenue in the Niger Delta

The Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) has partnered with Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption (LTRC) — an initiative of the Brookings Institution and R4D — to investigate corruption allegations involving the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a federal government agency founded in 2000 to facilitate socio-economic development of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. Our …

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