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Global Giving UK

Have you heard about Global Giving UK, a charity of charities? This is how the charity describes itself. GlobalGiving.co.uk enables you to donate to well-vetted charity projects in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America, and to tangibly see the impact of your giving. Projects on GlobalGiving.co.uk are screened to ensure they meet a genuine charitable purpose, in areas such as education, health, economic development and the envir… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on November 6, 2009 at 9:49am — No Comments

Global Giving UK

Have you heard about Global Giving UK, a charity of charities? This is how the charity describes itself. GlobalGiving.co.uk enables you to donate to well-vetted charity projects in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America, and to tangibly see the impact of your giving. Projects on GlobalGiving.co.uk are screened to ensure they meet a genuine charitable purpose, in areas such as education, health, economic development and the envir… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on November 6, 2009 at 9:47am — No Comments

Blog Action Day 09- Climate change and poverty

Today is 15 October 2009 and Blog Action Day 09 is here! Blog Action day see bloggers around the world write blogs on an issue that affects humanity and this year the them is CLIMATE CHANGE I thought I would add a twist to it by looking at climate change and poverty as I strongly believe that these two go hand in hand in the parts of the world where my work is based. On the whole the people I work with in East Africa are in rural areas and live off t… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on October 15, 2009 at 10:16am — 2 Comments

Human Computer Interaction- Research and Practice

I am now back in UK and it is time to reflect on the first part of the week in Uppsala. The Ethics Roles in Interaction Design in Developing regions workshop was part of wider conference Interact 2009 whose aims were to bring together Researchers and Practitioners to consider issues of Human Computer Interaction. Our workshop was made up of practitioners and researchers some of whom were Ma… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on August 27, 2009 at 8:42am — No Comments

An English Cow in Africa

No folks, I am not being rude but you may remember my blog on how an english cow changed an African woman's life. Well you would not believe it if I told you that on 14 May 09 I actually found myself in Helen's home town. I was disappointed with myself for not having planned ahead, because I missed the opportunity to meet Helen and the superstar cow:( The one thing I can tell you about Hele… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on May 23, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Housing poverty

When we consider poverty it is easy to forget housing poverty for the majority of people world wide. This is the issue that I would like to thin about today. If anyone understands the scheme run by habitat for humanity in this area of development I will be grateful to hear from you

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Added by Ida Horner on October 15, 2008 at 8:01pm — No Comments

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