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Intern looking for a placement in Africa

john rempel
2 Posts
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Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
5th year university student is looking for a placement. Key details of her program follow. Detailed program details are available. If interested, please contact John at john@business4transformation.org. Laura’s Proposal for Educational Workshops -South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and maybe Zimbabwe I am a 5th year Science student at ...

Opportunity in Somalia

Karen B
31 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 158 Views
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Posting this on behalf of a friend. PartnerAid is looking for workers to help with its projects in Somalia. Needs are in WASH, Public Health, Nutrition. I replied to Kay's thread below about networking in East Africa, but also thought this might be worth a separate topic. Here's

Investing in Africa

Randy Valentine
16 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 296 Views
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago, updated 1 year, 9 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 ...

Carbon Offsets

Randy Valentine
16 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 264 Views
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago
I recently met a neighbor of mine who has started a business of supplying high efficiency stoves to villages in central Africa. The interesting part about this business is that he is able to sell carbon offsets to companies around the globe based on the reduced emissions of these stoves ...

Starfish Expo - North Africa Breakout Session

Travis Anderson
16 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 504 Views
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago, updated 1 year, 11 months ago
Norm Brinkley - Session Leader Subject Matter Experts on North African Region Yazi Karen Boyle Norm Brinkley Issues - Water Dams that were created long ago are causing problems with the natural flow of water. Less than 7% of the people in Niger drink clean water and less than 5% have electricity ...

Drinking water

Alfred Chor
0 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 364 Views
Posted 2 years, 1 month 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

Cameroon

Mike McCausland
54 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 290 Views
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago
Looking for good contacts in Cameroon. Especially interested in water projects. Please contact me if you have good connections! Thanks!

TB Guidance for Haiti Earthquake Responders - CDC

Kay Hiramine
96 Posts
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Posted 2 years, 3 months ago
This web link provides the most recent CDC recommendations on TB guidance in the wake of CDC's response to the Haiti Earthquake: http://www.cdc.gov/tb/NewsandAnnoucements/earthquakes.htm

Burkina Faso - looking for partners

Karmen
2 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 566 Views
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago, updated 2 years, 4 months ago
Planning a trip to Burkina Faso in March 2010 and looking for local NGOs and/or partners. We want to find a potential people's group and/or village to work with to do community development work. I would like to learn more about some of the under resourced people ...

Has anyone worked with Spirulina?

Karen B
31 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 350 Views
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago, updated 2 years, 5 months ago
Here in Mauritania, there are several NGOs (we're one of them) who are considering pilot projects related to farming Spirulina, a fresh water algae, and then using it as a nutritional supplement in programs for rehabilitating malnourished children. Anyone out there on the Starfish net have experience growing or