Mount Carmel Training Center designed a three- year program to integrate early childhood education into the classrooms. This involved close consultation with the Kumasi Metropolitan Department of Education, as well as working closely with a core group of teachers, who are soon to become teacher trainers themselves.
http://mci.ei.columbia.edu/?id=locations_kumasi
July 25, 2010
Israeli medical delegation in Congo takes heat while trying to soothe burns
Published in Ha'aretz a few days ago.
About 10 days ago Israel sent five medical specialists from Sheba Medical Center for 10 days to treat the wounded. They were the first plastic surgeons to arrive in Congo after the accident, with proper know-how and equipment to treat the victims. Approximately 50 victims were burned when an oil tanker caught fire two weeks ago, killing more than 230 people in avillage near the Democratic Republic of Congo's border with Burundi.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-medical-delegation-in-congo-takes-heat-while-trying-to-soothe-burns-1.302693
About 10 days ago Israel sent five medical specialists from Sheba Medical Center for 10 days to treat the wounded. They were the first plastic surgeons to arrive in Congo after the accident, with proper know-how and equipment to treat the victims. Approximately 50 victims were burned when an oil tanker caught fire two weeks ago, killing more than 230 people in avillage near the Democratic Republic of Congo's border with Burundi.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-medical-delegation-in-congo-takes-heat-while-trying-to-soothe-burns-1.302693
July 22, 2010
On July 19, MASHAV and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in Eastern Africa, to promote strong technical collaboration as well as the development of capacity building strategies that will benefit government services, the civil society and the private sector in Eastern Africa.
The MOU was signed following an overall agreement on cooperation signed on November 2008 in Roma, FAO headquarters with the aim to assist developing countries to achieve the Millenium development goals (UN MDGs).
July 13, 2010
Congo: secours d’urgence aux grands brules
Israël a envoyé une équipe médicale d’urgence et du matériel de pointe pour soigner les rescapés, souvent très grièvement brûlés, de l’explosion d’un camion-citerne, qui a fait plus de 200 morts dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo. une dizaine de docteurs, de chirurgiens et de spécialistes ont quitté en urgence Jérusalem, Haifa, et Tel-Aviv pour le Congo. MASHAV a pris la responsabilite de cette situation d’urgence. L'operation a etait mise en place suite à la demande du ministre des Affaires Etrangeres israelien Avigdor Lieberman.
http://jssnews.com/2010/07/12/israel-au-congo-aide-economique-et-secours-durgence/
http://jssnews.com/2010/07/12/israel-au-congo-aide-economique-et-secours-durgence/
July 4, 2010
In historic move, UN creates single entity to promote women’s empowerment
UN News Center, July 2nd, 2010. A very welcome initiative!
In a bid to accelerate the empowerment of women, the General Assembly today voted unanimously to create a dynamic new entity merging four United Nations offices focusing on gender equality, a move hailed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other senior officials.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35224&Cr=gender&Cr1
In a bid to accelerate the empowerment of women, the General Assembly today voted unanimously to create a dynamic new entity merging four United Nations offices focusing on gender equality, a move hailed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other senior officials.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35224&Cr=gender&Cr1
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