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Combatting “The Haiti Syndrome”

COMBATTING THE HAITI SYNDROME STOP! Before read any further, please do the following: 1.) Grab a pen and paper 2.) Write down the top 3 most important international news stories Ok, now take a look at what you wrote. Are any of the following words in your list: Iran, Israel, Syria, Netanyahu, Obama, nuclear, Ahmadinejad, [...]

INCH BY INCH, ROW BY ROW

Lately I’ve been thinking about the mission and goals of Our Task and the grand scale on which these goals exist. As is written in the Earth 2100 plan the issues we are hoping to tackle are “inter-linked, global, long-term, urgent, and of concern to everyone” and addressing these issues is a task on par [...]

Education For All: Are We Reaching the Marginalized?

Report Title: 2010 EFA Global Monitoring Report: Reaching the Marginalized Highlights of the EFA Report 2010: Gains The number of children out of school has dropped by 33 million worldwide since 1999 with South and West Asia more than halving the number of children out of school. The percentage of girls out of schools has [...]