Poor Girl Cleaning Car for Livelihood. It is a national shame. Govt has failed miserably in fulfilling fundamental right and providing free education to ALL children of age 6 to 14, as guranteed under the Right to Education Act,fulifil and employing them gainfully for development of India.
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Ajegunle.org, a Paradigm Initiative Nigeria project, is a model that we have designed to create better livelihoods through ICT opportunities, entrepreneurship training and short-term internships for young people in Nigerias underserved areas. The project website is www.ajegunle.org and we are glad to have been able to commence pre-project work on other areas. We also invite you to view the project video (as captured by Nigeria International and screened in various countries) on CNNs iReport at www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-14359. Famous, like many other young people in Nigeria’s most popular slum, was not sure of what tomorrow held for him. Now, he works at the Visa Section of the British High Commission in Abuja thanks to his participation in the Ajegunle.org project. Funke, another project participant, grew her business of N2,000 by over 2,000% after the training. The project is also helping to change the perception of the Ajegunle community, as shown through the inclusion of the projects details on the popular Wikipedia website or search results through internet search engines.
We are working towards the replication of the idea beyond Ajegunle, and are also keen on establishing the Ajegunle Innovation Centre (AJIC). The AJIC will serve as a knowledge hub where more youth from the community can be empowered for the world of work. It will serve the purposes of training, incubation and service provision:
(a) Training: Providing a space for the Ajegunle.org training program and a centre for the advancement of workplace preparedness for Ajegunle’s youth;
(b) Incubation: We will provide workspaces for the entrepreneurs that we train so that they can overcome the infrastructure barrier and have a place where they can walk into and work to provide their services towards income generation and wealth creation. The incubator will be designed to encourage productivity within a specified period of time;
(c) Services: The centre will also be a place where community members can get services such as photocopy, fax, etc, as a form of income generation strategy to sustain the centre. The centre will be served by our graduates so they can also benefit from immediate employment opportunities while they in turn provide the centre with low-cost manpower. Our ultimate goal is for the centre to become a major outsourcing hotspot in Africa!
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Dr. Anacleto B. Millendez, founder of the Beautiful Heart Foundation, Inc., (http://www.beautifulheart.net) met with the couple who serve as trainors for “From Rags to Riches” Project, a livelihood training program for the poor sponsored by the foundation.
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CHAN:
And now we have a story about one family in Beijing that is having their livelihood taken away by local authorities. We bring you the story of the Yu family.
STORY:
The Yu family has been selling drinks and snacks from this tiny shop in Beijing for decades. But not – it seems – for much longer. The local authority is giving their street a make-over ahead of the Olympics.
And all the other shops which used to line the street have agreed to make way for a lush green lawn.
[Yu Pingju, Shop Owner]:
“We are extremely worried. We don’t eat and we don’t sleep. We’re physically and mentally exhausted. But what can we do? This is our home.”
Yu Pingju lives with her extended family of 14. They range in age from four to 71. She says if they agree to move they’ll have nowhere to go.
[Yu Pingju, Shop Owner]:
“You can’t just wave an Olympic flag and infringe our property rights.”
The Yu’s aren’t the first to make a stand against the authorities over development for the Olympics. But they only have until Thursday to move or risk eviction.
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Thriving rural market in the Philippines, where local residents get their groceries, including fresh vegetables, meat, staples, and dry goods.
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The Government of Japan has provided US$311,814 (approximately Rs. 36 million) for the Support for Livelihood of Returnees in Batticaloa District (Phase 2) to be implemented by JEN, a Japanese humanitarian NGO, under the Japan-NGO Cooperation Grant scheme.
The project contributes to construct 40 agro-wells, provide 40 water pumps, and to conduct workshops to strengthen communities in the 8 Grama Niladhari Divisions of Kiran and Chenkalady District Secretary division in Batticaloa. It is envisaged that the project provides stable water supply, ensures livelihood and food security, and improves income of 1,000 people.
The project is the forth phase of the Livelihood Project for Returnees in Batticaloa that JEN has implemented since 2007 through the Japan-NGO cooperation Grant scheme as well as the Japan Platform (JPF), an umbrella organization for conducting emergency humanitarian istance outside Japan under the partnership among the Japanese Government, NGOs, private sector, and economic sector. JEN also has been supporting the Emergency Water Supply for the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North, utilizing Rs. 60 million through the JPF. In addition to JEN, six Japanese Humanitarian NGOs, namely, Save the Children Japan (SCJ), Japan Agency for Development and Emergency (JADE), World Vision Japan, Japan Center for Conflict Prevention (JCCP), PARC Inter-Peoples Cooperation (PARCIC), and Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) are providing emergency support for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North through JPF. These supports show the strong relationship between Sri Lanka and Japan not only at the governmental level but also at the grass-roots level.
The Grant Contract was singed between His Excellency, Mr. Kunio Takahashi, Ambassador of Japan and Mr. Shu Nishimaru, Head of Colombo Main Office of JEN, on 8th September 2009 at the Embassy of Japan in Colombo.
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This Practical Action project aims to address the development needs of the communities, who have been displaced by river erosion and those who are living under the threat of being eroded in the near future.
Gaibandha is located in northern Bangladesh at the confluence of the two major rivers, which makes the area vulnerable to floods and river erosion. Frequent disasters make life here much more difficult than the rest of country, by depriving people of land, employment opportunities and basic service facilities.
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The colour of the times is changing. The accelerating pace of technological, economic and social change is transforming livelihoods and landscapes; many face a danger of disappearing altogether in the not-so-distant future. We do not think it appropriate to make a normative judgment on whether this change is socially good or bad. However, we do believe that it is important to document the present for future generations that would want to look back at history, just like we do today. Though text-documentation of livelihoods and landscapes is widely available, visual recording and documentation is relatively sparse and dispersed. Given the state of video technology, it is feasible and necessary to effectively document the present, visually. This is the primary objective of HISTORY TOMORROW, an initiative launched by FAIR.
http://www.fairindia.org/historytomorrow.htm
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Shell mining, Tadri
The colour of the times is changing. The accelerating pace of technological, economic and social change is transforming livelihoods and landscapes; many face a danger of disappearing altogether in the not-so-distant future. We do not think it appropriate to make a normative judgment on whether this change is socially good or bad. However, we do believe that it is important to document the present for future generations that would want to look back at history, just like we do today. Though text-documentation of livelihoods and landscapes is widely available, visual recording and documentation is relatively sparse and dispersed. Given the state of video technology, it is feasible and necessary to effectively document the present, visually. This is the primary objective of HISTORY TOMORROW, an initiative launched by FAIR.
http://www.fairindia.org/historytomorrow.htm
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Thriving fish market with diverse choices where local residents flock to buy their fresh marine and freshwater fish. This is definitely one of the best fish markets in the area.
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