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orphanage best practices study

Clay Gillispie
2 Posts
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Posted 1 year, 3 months ago, updated 1 year, 3 months ago
I am beginning a study to develop an education model of best practices used in orphanages in Southern Sudan to complete my Master's program. I would love to hear from orphanages or organizations who would like to be a part of this study sharing best practices in education used

Attendee Information Gathering

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
0 Votes 3 Replies 400 Views
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago, updated 1 year, 4 months ago
Everyone who has registered to attend the 2010 EXPO should have recently received an email that provides access to an online form. That form is to be used to provide important information about your organization and goals for attending the EXPO. We want to strongly encourage all attendees to have ...

Investing in Africa

Randy Valentine
16 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 257 Views
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago, updated 1 year, 6 months ago
I recently read an interesting article regarding investing in Africa. There are so many misconceptions about the continent that are still pervasive in the US and abroad regarding corruption, infrastructure, education, etc. Are you investing in Africa? If so, what are you doing? I would like to start an ongoing ...

Capturing Stories at the Starfish Community EXPO

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 218 Views
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
If you have some story of a collaboration or networking that you would like to share with the community, please contact me. If you are at the EXPO, we'll have one plan. If you are unable to make the EXPO, please contact me anyway. Thanks! Matt Wallace Click on ...

Camille Melki on Holistic Development

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Kyle Adams
72 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 297 Views
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago
Camille Melki of Heart for Lebanon talks about how partnering can increase the effectiveness of several separate projects. As our friend Brian likes to say, partnering is messy. You have to give up a little bit of control, and you have to maintain a relationship, but it can also be

Drinking water

Alfred Chor
0 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 336 Views
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi all, Is there any working model for desalinating brackish water into clean drinking water? The communities in many parts of Sidoarjo, Indonesia have water wells that are not fit for consumption. They have to purchase drinking water from other sources. Any disaster outbreak will diminish their survival

Haiti Sustainability - Video Interview

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Matt Wallace
76 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 435 Views
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
Junior Bataille discusses how sustainability must be a central goal of what is done in Haiti as the country is rebuilt.

Haiti Update from Hope Extended

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 428 Views
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago, updated 1 year, 11 months ago
John Seaman offers an update and some comments about their recent work in Haiti. I hope this will provide others with a little more insight into what's been going on and some "Lessons Learned" for future reference. Thanks to John and Hope Extended for their work with the IDRN ...

Connections in Haiti

Kyle Adams
72 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 264 Views
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago
In this interview, Wayne Graham talks about his interest in Haiti, one that began on a very personal level. Wayne was instrumental in connecting HISG, IMR, and HELP International with a very capable partner in Port Au Prince who helped make a lot of our efforts a reality. Wayne talks

Telling Stats Regarding Earthquake Death Ratios

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 280 Views
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago, updated 1 year, 11 months ago
This excellent article was forwarded to a group of people working on Haiti. It seems like the perfect example of "Lessons Learned" information that we want to encourage people to share within the Starfish Community. Here's the link to a BBC Article on Death Comparisons between the recent China ...