The Kikuyu Farmers Field School in Kenya is a school with a difference. And that is not only because it is without walls. More importantly, it enables it students, in this case, farmers, to look at farming as a business where they can produce for their consumption and surplus for income-generation.

As the world celebrated the International Literacy Day on September 8, there is reason for both cheer and despair. Many more children are in schools worldwide as enrolments have risen. Adult literacy has also registered a modest increase. And yet, millions of people are still deprived of this basic human right. Oxfam Great Britain provides an insight into some of the challenges.

A four-year project between the Finnish and South African governments aims to provide information and communication technologies to 20 pilot schools in Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape.

Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has been focussing on community projects that improve the living conditions and survival chances of vulnerable and orphaned children.

Just after handing a torn plastic bag full of two cents coins to the education ministry officials in protest of a two per cent salary increase, a strong call has been made by unionists to "remove those in power" in order to save the country's education.

Almost 3,500 children who as recently as five months ago were acting as soldiers in Sudan's civil war have returned to their communities and families in southern Sudan with high hopes for a fresh start in life. The move home - completed over the last few days - marked the end of a five-month transition period in which the children were cared for by UNICEF and a coalition of aid groups.

Education will be the key in promoting sustainable development. Jon Snow launches a competition in which a teacher and pupils could be heading to next year's World Summit in South Africa.

Hundreds of teachers face being kicked out of the civil service if they refuse to be redeployed to formerly disadvantaged schools as the Namibian government moves to bridge the teacher-pupil ratio.

Of a 12-million pula regional integration grant signed by USAID in the Botswana's capital Gaborone last week, 6-million pula will help strengthen regional economies through non-governmental organisations.

The Country Programme Adviser supports, promotes and documents the role of UNAIDS as the leading advocate for an urgent, coordinated and comprehensive response to the epidemic. Working primarily with and through cosponsors, Secretariat staff provide leadership and coordination, urge rapid political, social and resource mobilisation and provide high quality strategic information in the pursuit of these objectives.

Some 129,500 people have been affected by floods in Chad, and 100 are reported dead or missing, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report dated 11 September.

Aga Khan Education Service, Kenya is a professionally managed and dynamic non-profit organization that operates thirteen independent schools in Kenya as well as facilitates outreach programmes for educational development. Currently AKES-K is looking for a suitable candidate to fill the position of Chief Executive Officer.

The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is an African, non-profit, regional health NGO whose mission is to empower disadvantaged people in Africa to enjoy better health. We have over five hundred employees throughout Africa, and Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, with country offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa and field offices in Ethiopia, and Mozambique and Somalia. We are searching for suitable candidates to fill the challenging position of Programme Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and Programme Development Officer in our Directorate of Programmes based at Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

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An update of the Kellogg Foundation-sponsored report,"e-Philanthropy, Volunteerism, and Social Changemaking: A New Landscape of Resources, Issues and Opportunities," the first comprehensive survey of the rapidly evolving field of e-philanthropy. This update includes a comprehensive listing of active e-philanthropy sites arranged by category (e.g., auctions/events, donor services, fundraising services, volunteering, etc.).

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For all their differences, the media in the Middle East - from Iraq to Israel - seem to be agreed on one thing: whoever was to blame for yesterday's carnage in the US, the attacks are the result of American policies.

In the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the United States, the United Nations General Assembly today decided to postpone its upcoming special session on children.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bioethics Institute, in collaboration with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Clinical Bioethics, are pleased to announce the availability of a one-year training program in research ethics for scientists from sub-Saharan Africa. The fellowship will provide funding for scientists to study bioethics and research ethics, and also to do an independent project in their home country related to research ethics. Application for 2002 fellows are due on October 1, 2001. Additional information and application material can be downloaded from The Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute website or by contacting Dr. Suzanne Maman.