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Tag Archives: Africa
Book Review: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Book by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, HarperCollins, 2009. Reviewed by Barbara Merz. This book was my companion while delayed at an airport recently. Right beside the Starbucks café at LAX airport waiting for my flight to Sydney I noticed an advert with a small Afghani girl with bright eyes and a determined face. It read ‘Role Model.’ Fellow travelers were stopping by, perhaps jarred by the message. The poster was part of a broader … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Issue 6: Autumn 2010
Tagged Africa, book, environment, global poverty, Malawi, social entrepreneur, Social Innovation, sustainability, William Kamkwamba
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Strength Through Flexibility
by Kim Jonker, The Stanford Social Innovation Review; Winter 2010. This case study follows the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) as it seeks to change the culture of the classroom across a continent with several thousand distinct ethnic groups and cultural norms. It’s well known that educating girls is one of the most effective development interventions to lift whole communities out of poverty. In the early 1990s only half of Africa’s school age girls … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 6: Autumn 2010
Tagged Africa, education, Leadership, organisational flexibility, Public Policy, social inclusion, Social Innovation
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Lives Of The Saints: International Hardship Duty In Chad
by Jonathan Harr, The New Yorker; January 5, 2009. This New Yorker piece depicts the challenges of leadership in a field office situated on the eastern frontier of the African nation of Chad. Chad is considered a hardship posting within the ranks of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR.) The office is situated close to the Dafur border, where nearly two hundred and fifty thousand Sudanese have fled to escape death, mayhem, and … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 2: Summer 2009
Tagged Africa, Dafur, fundraising, humanitarian aid, Leadership, refugees, reporting requirements, UNHCR, United Nations
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