The Otumfuo Education Fund (OEF) has collected a total of 2.2 billion cedis cash from individuals and organisations since it was established in 1999. Nana Brefo-Boateng, Executive Secretary of the Fund, announced this at a press briefing in Kumasi on Monday to launch Otumfuo Education Fund Week and Fund Raising Dinner Dance, starting from June 2.

The purpose of this position is to provide strategic leadership, direction and good management in order to fullfill the goal of the Resource Centre.

The Greater Johannesburg Welfare, Social Service and Development Forum (GJWSSDF) hosted a meeting on the funding crisis in the welfare sector on Thursday 8 May. The meeting was a follow up to a meeting held in October of last year. The meeting attracted more than 80 people but was marred by the last minute cancellation by key speakers from the Department of Social Development and the National Development Agency (NDA).

Dispatch Online reports that due to R20 000 and R25 000 donations from the FNB Foundation and the Joan St Leger Lindbergh Charity Fund respectively the Border Community Chest this month recorded its best fundraising result ever.

Wole Soyinka provides a foreword to this visceral account of a prominent newspaper editor's arrest, interrogation and imprisonment between 1995 and 1998 under the regime of Nigeria's military dictator Sanni Abacha. The author captures the loneliness and betrayal of political imprisonment and calls for collective responsibility to guard against tyrannical rule.

As of 30 April 2003, the Ugandan Ministry of Public Health has reported a total of 277 cases of cholera with 35 deaths in March and April 2003 in Bundibugyo district, with most cases located along the Semliki and Lamia rivers.

Main duties and responsibilities are to manage the nutrition and food security programmes in line with Concern's organisational policy and strategy.

Lecturers are required to teach the following courses at the Academy of Screen arts - a new and exciting Film School in Ghana: Acting, Directing, Presentation and Anchoring, Set Design, Costume and Make-up, Animation, Pre-production, Post production, Music and Dance, Voice and Diction, Film History.

The Organisation for Educational Resources and Technological Training (ORT) is seeking candidates for two potential long-term positions with expertise in anti-trafficking issues, child labour, education, and project management.

Massive inequalities remain in terms of both access to education and quality of education in poor and rich communities, in large part because of the system of almost unregulated school fees. As a result, the education system is not delivering. The education department's recent report on school funding points out SA's educational results are far worse than in many poorer countries. Of 11 southern and east African countries, only Lesotho and Namibia score worse than SA for reading and mathematics.

The Claude Ake Memorial Awards Program seeks to encourage young and mid-career African scholars-activists to carry out research, reflection and writing about their ideas and activities. The award is intended for Africans, working in Africa, who are engaged in knowledge-based and reality-informed problem solving to address the continent’s development challenges. It will support research projects that are applicable to a country, region, or other defined setting within Africa. Successful applicants will receive stipends of $6,000 for innovative research aimed at meeting challenges that face the continent of Africa.

Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) is a Zambian network of civil society organisations formed in October 2000 with the initial purpose of ensuring effective civil society input into Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP’s). Now CSPR is looking beyond PRSP formulation to poverty issues at a broader level. CSPR of Zambia will be hosting a workshop that will bring together civil society actors from various PRSP formulating countries.

The Workers’ Library and Museum is a non-profit labour service organisation based in Johannesburg. Dennis Brutus will be talking on the subject 'Whither Social Movements in the Aftermath of the War on Iraq' on May 24.

A study has shown that Nigeria is among one of five countries in Africa where the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is on the increase in urban areas. The study, conducted by experts in the United States (US), reveals that the rate of Aids is on the increase in Nigeria, as well as other African countries like South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, and Cameroon.

Burkina Faso's government and education experts hope that the introduction of bilingual schools that teach pupils in both French and their mother tongue would increase school enrolment that are often as low as 12 percent in rural areas.

The British ambassador in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Jim Atkinson, said on Tuesday that Britain would give US $900,000 in December for health projects in the DRC. The funding, part of a $27 million bilateral aid programme for the DRC, would be used to provide medicine and medical equipment, to rebuild health facilities and train medical personnel, Atkinson said.

This conference will provide a forum for debate on the extent to which rhetoric, practice, activism and social engagement within Africa's civil society have yielded any outcome as far as political emancipation and people's livelihood are concerned. Beyond exploring the term civil society and its application to African historical and contemporary conditions, this conference is chiefly interested in the everyday processes of interaction through which civil society organisations and individual actors have/not managed to induce or contribute to any social transformation, and in the potential for these actors to play any significant role in the challenges confronting Africa today.

The Iringa International School is searching for a Senior School Maths and Science teacher. The school is small and somewhat limited in resources, but the diverse student body is serious about learning from an intelligent, curious, and qualified Maths and Science Teacher.

The objective and responsibility of this mission is to promote and safeguard MSF's Identity and Principles and to be overall responsible by co-ordinating the appropriate, effective and efficient management of the MSF operations in-country through the CT (Coordination Team) in accordance with the MSF mandate and the MSF-CH Operational Policy.

The Interim Programme Manager's role will be to guide the Social Protection and Welfare Programme's progress through a number of tasks, whist reviewing the team's structure and performance levels, identifying any barriers to development and recommending changes to address these.