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With thanks to… Aprovecho Research Center, USA Anna Pearce, Box Aid SSS, UK Heifer Project Exchange
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Helpful ideas for project planning, monitoring and evaluation
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How to increase the desire for literacy and develop literacy at community level
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Except where marked otherwise, the diagrams on this page are taken from the book Immunization in Practice produced by WHO. Used with kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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Compiled by Isabel Carter. These are imaginary lines across a slope which are the same height at all places along the slope. Water cannot flow along a contour line - it is completely level. Most soil erosion control methods are built along the contour lines to have maximum effect.
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Traditional cooking methods, using firewood and charcoal, prove more and more time consuming for women around the world as reserves of fuel trees are used up. Women find they either have to walk further to collect enough wood for cooking the family meal, or else buy expensive paraffin. The use of fireless cookers is not a new idea, but often the ideas are presented in ways which seem alien to people. Fireless cookers are unlikely to replace traditional methods of cooking, but they can be a very ...
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by Dr Edwin J Pugh. In disaster and refugee situations, infectious diseases are a potential major health hazard. This is due to a variety of factors including overcrowding, an unsanitary environment and poor nutrition. A mixture of people living in crowded, dirty conditions with low resistance to disease because of malnutrition, is a situation where infectious diseases may be severe and spread rapidly unless effective control measures can be established.
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by Michael Madany. When I began doing agroforestry work with communities in Somalia in 1985, I wondered how to solve the problem of transporting tree seedlings. Tree seedlings grown in polyethylene tubes need great care while they are being carried to make sure they are not damaged before planting.
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by Professor P B Spradbrow. Most rural families in developing countries keep chickens, even those families that are too poor to own other animals. These chickens must scavenge for most of their food, although sometimes they receive household scraps as well. The chickens are not penned up and often they lack even basic housing. Village chickens are available for sale or barter and they provide meat or eggs. All too frequently a serious disease called Newcastle disease ...
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The Blood of Christ. Blood may be thought of in many ways - it may be seen as a sign of weakness, injury and death. But we also talk of our ‘life blood’. Blood keeps our body healthy and alive. Blood may bring life to others by transfusions. Immunizations give our blood the ability to fight off diseases.
