The focus of the conference will be to examine best training practices used in international healthcare settings, with particular emphasis on family planning and reproductive health in Africa. In addition, training practices that have been employed successfully in sectors other than healthcare will be examined and discussed for their applicability to reproductive health programs.

The Lions Club of Chilanga has helped lift the burden off government in caring for the needy, UPND Chilanga MP Captain Cosmas Moono has said. On a fund-raising walk by the Lions Club of Chilanga on Saturday, Capt. Moono said it was encouraging to see how consistent the club had been in helping to look after the terminally ill.

A survey in The Gambia in October found that acute malnutrition among children aged 6-59 months was 11.2 percent, which was above the 10 percent ceiling used in African countries to indicate an alarming situation, the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme said on Tuesday.

Namibian human rights activists on Wednesday called for the immediate release of 78 Angolans at Dordabis prison, saying their ongoing detention constituted a gross human rights violation.

A local child rights advocacy group has requested the Ministries of National Defence and Justice to investigate reports of child conscription into militia units in the country.

What problems do working children in Zimbabwe experience? How can they best be heard and supported? A book draws attention to the plight of working children and suggests ways forward, while acknowledging that children’s earnings are essential to the livelihoods of many marginalised families.

The Healthy Futures project aimed to reduce the drop out rate among Kenyan girls in primary school (equivalent to US grades one through eight) in 31 communities in five districts. The project guided community members to address barriers young girls face in completing primary education and devise solutions to those barriers. This report describes the Healthy Futures activities and lessons learned from April 1998 to June 2000.

"There is no food at home. I am fed at school. I think I would die without school meals, like my sister did," Janice Simelane, an eight-year-old second grade student at Swaziland's Sobani Primary School, says.

International donors have agreed to support a fast-track education programme in seven developing countries including Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mauritania and Niger, the World Bank reported.

The Civic Alliance for Social and Economic Progress (CASEP) has called for a constructive resolution of the "real and urgent problems" confronting the education sector. Attacking the victims of the crisis - the teachers, lecturers, students and communities around schools - did not resolve the problem, said the organisation.

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 .

Forty-six Ministers of Education of Africa were due to participate in the Conference of the Ministers of Education of African Member States (MINEDAF VIII) to be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 2-6 December. In addition, 106 parliamentarians from 53 countries as well as representatives from international organisations and civil society were also due to participate in the discussion on how to meet the educational challenges in Africa.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Women's Rights Division monitors state-sponsored and state-tolerated violence against women and sex discrimination in all world regions. The Division seeks a full-time Researcher to improve awareness and accountability for human rights violations against women by conducting fact-finding missions and writing and publicizing reports among other tasks.

The International Human Rights Academy is a human rights course, organized every year alternately in South Africa and in Europe under the auspices of Ghent University (Belgium), the University of the Western Cape (Republic of South Africa), Utrecht University (The Netherlands), the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oslo (Norway), together with the Washington College of Law at American University (United States of America).

This top executive position in the South Africa Medical Research Council (MRC) has been vacant since October 2002. The MRC is one of eight Science, Engineering and Technology Institutes (SETI's) operating within the national Science System of the Republic of South Africa. The MRC's task is to improve the health of the population of South Africa through excellent scientific research.

Are you committed to changing the lives of poor women and men in Africa. Are you results oriented? Look no further because Oxfam GB is seeking someone like you for the position of Programme Representative, Burundi.

The Save the Children (SC UK) Southern Africa Regional Office in Pretoria is seeking a Support Services Manager for a period of 1 year. The incumbent will have overall responsibility for the management of administration, including Human Resources, procurement, finance and IT.

A group of women in northern Namibia have become "flying mothers" for children orphaned by Aids. They got together four years ago after losing relatives to the disease, or taking in nephews and nieces after their parents had died.

The number of children orphaned by HIV-AIDS in Windhoek is expected to escalate to 30 000 over the next 10 years from the current estimate of 6 600, the Mayor of the City, Matheus Shikongo, said last Wednesday.

South African station Radio Khwezi is conducting a market research project for community radio stations to understand and identify their markets in the interests of becoming financially sustainable. The research, done through ABC ULWAZI, will involve a consultant interviewing people in the field, including local business people, NGOs and members of local government. Results are expected soon after the process ends on the 29th of November.