The Sardauna Foundation should work towards eradicating street begging among the Hausa/Fulani communities in the North, the Special Adviser to Governor Ibrahim Shekarau on Tsangaya Education Aminu Ismail Sagagi has said.
ActionAid The Gambia has now become a principal recipient (PR) of the Global Fund Round 8 HIV/AIDS grant, a press release from the ActionAid office The Gambia stated. Below we reproduce the full text of the release.
Muslim Aid a charitable organisation based in the United Kingdom recently donated seventy (70) Aqua boxes to disaster victims in the CRR through the Muslim Aid field office in Bakau.
MR. SAMUEL Oracca-Tetteh the chairman of Ghana Coalition of NGOs in health has called on civil society organizations in collaboration with Ministry of Health (MOH) to co-operate and help reduce maternal death.
WORLD VISION Ghana International, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), operating in several districts of Ghana, after a careful profile of the Bongo District, opened an Area Development Programme (ADP) in the district in 1996.
While food is readily available in shops and some political and economic stability is returning in Zimbabwe, vulnerable groups such as children and people living with HIV and AIDS still face a shortage of food.
She is Hollywood royalty; the first African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
Soroptimist International of Banjul (SIB), last Friday observed World Literacy Day, in a form of a symposium held at the main office in Kanifing. Founded in 1986, Soroptimist International is a non-governmental advocacy organization that fights for the enhancement of girl child, empowerment of women and promoting literacy among women and the girl child in particular.
Ousman Sonko, minister of Interior, responsible for NGO affairs in The Gambia, has spoken about the strong commitment that the government of The Gambia attached to the welfare and development of NGOs in the country.
Karmic Angels, an international charitable organisation, last Monday, presented a clinical microscope to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH), as part of their contribution towards the attainment of The GambiaÂ's Vision 2020 blue print.
United Way Ghana (UWG), a not -for -profit making organisation that aims at among other things to building human capacity in the areas of education, healthcare and income generation, has in its very latest of social lifeline measures, come up with a campaign to help raise funds to send back to the classrooms, the increasing number of youth who parade the streets of Accra all day engaging in all ...
Residents in Jabana sector in Gasabo last week had reason to rejoice when Heifer International gave out 23 cows.
Nine villages in Arusha region facing food shortage due to prolonged drought last week received 90 tonnes of maize from a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) known as Hope For Children (HFC) based at Sakina area in the Arusha Municipality.
Eritrea has received award from the GAVI Alliance for its excellent performance in improving child health and immunization.
THE Human Rights Network, Uganda (HURINET), has urged the Government to protect human rights activists from arrests, intimidation and torture while performing their duties.
In order to protect the future of surveyors in Nigeria and to improve excellence in the training institutions, Surveyors Councils of Nigeria (SURCON), has donated surveying equipment worth millions of naira to various tertiary institutions across the country to assist and aid proficiency in the training of the future surveyors.
About 30,000 protesters including a Nobel laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, yesterday took to the streets to demand for climate justice, urging all countries participating in the ongoing 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) to urgently sign a climate treaty that would help developing countries adapt to climate change reality.
As the world celebrated World International Human Rights Day, human rights activists that converged on Lagos have called for the immediate resignation of President Umaru Yar 'Adua, who has now spent over 19 days in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
The French Embassy in Nigeria has earmarked one million Euros to assist non-governmental organizations to fight poverty in Nigeria.
On many forums, the media and the Public Accounts Committee has been commended for their exposure of corruption. Justice (Rtd) Kanyeihamba voiced this while delivering a paper on November 19, at a public dialogue organised by ACFODE on the theme; "The current environment and women's political participation". Kanyeihamba said that of all institutions, it was the media that had tirelessly stood out ...
THE need for active communities' participation in budget preparation and implementa-tion, took the front burner last week, as a two-day capacity building workshop was held by non-governmental organisations, Afro Centre for Development, Peace and Justice (AFRODEP) and the Poverty Alleviation For The Poor Initiative (PAFPI).
More people have Sunday condemned the civil society group's conference in the Kenyan coastal and port town of Mombassa and said that it was not formally attended by whole sides of the civil society groups of Somalia.
The civil rights group conference which continued in the Kenyan port town of Mombassa has ended with no results, just as most of the attendees pointed out that it was null and void conference that lost much money.
Civil Society groups and human right activists under the aegis of Osun State Civil Societies Coalition Against Corruption and Rights Violation (OSCARV) weekend converged in Osogbo to mark the World Human Rights Day with a call on the Federal Government to ensure that the rights of the people are guaranteed.
The Imo Job Centre (IJC) Owerri has signed a Memorandum of Partnership (MoP) with a Canadian-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Basics for Empowerment (BfE).
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