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Using the internet and mobile phones as part of the advocacy cycle
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Key insights from the response of self-help groups to the Covid-19 pandemic in Rwanda
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An interview with Rajan Samuel and Mathew Titus. How does access to credit help the poor in their overall development?
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Action Aid operate a very successful loan fund in the Gambia. The fund is not revolving, in that it has been given by supporters for relief work. So this credit scheme instead seeks to use this money imaginatively to build up communities. The objective is to build up savings within each community so that people eventually have their own capital to invest.
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In Benin recently, I came across this good idea for making an incubator for hatching chickens’, ducks’ or other poultry eggs.
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by Gideon Yong Njini. Management is the ability to organise and control teamwork, to direct and inspire, to create contacts and to handle problems which may arise. Management channels resources to achieve pre selected objectives.
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by Elgin Saha. Can development goals be achieved without any credit system to help the poor begin income-generating activities? For many years this has been a difficult question for us in HEED, Bangladesh. We have discussed and deliberated. While the poor waited patiently…
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by Steve Finamore.Credit schemes are becoming increasingly important. They are a very useful tool for encouraging development, but a number of things can go wrong. Even when they run smoothly, they are not the answer to every problem faced by the poor.
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Sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) is a disease carried by tsetse flies which affects an estimated 55 million people in 36 African countries. It causes severe pain, suffering and death in mainly rural communities. A WHO specialist has described the situation in many parts of Africa as a ‘time bomb’ under constant threat of exploding. Here is recent information from a Footsteps reader, Dr Paul Fountain…
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It is very important to encourage people to talk openly about sensitive issues. Drama – using people or puppets – can be a good way of encouraging such discussion. Here is an idea for a drama written by EcoLink in South Africa. You can add your own ideas, adapt the content and change the names to make it relevant for your own community.
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by Petra Röhr-Rouendaal.‘ feel like a bird who can fly for the first time!’ This is what Brenda told me after she had produced her first visual aids. She is a nurse working in the north of Kenya with the nomadic Samburu and Turkana people. She has travelled with the nomads over the last few years, living in a simple grass-mat hut. Brenda’s work is to teach people about primary health care. This proved difficult as few people could read or write and she had no visual aids. Visual ...
Resource Type: Bible studies
Families. God intends the family as a place of refuge and security, standing strong under pressures. It should be a place where members can grow to maturity, sharing good things and fun! There are many examples of this in the Bible – for example, Psalm 128.
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