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Like all the peoples of Africa, the Lyélé of Burkina Faso often use proverbs to give expression to the values and the wisdom handed down from their ancestors. To take the first step oneself, to rely on one’s own resources, is a fundamental principle of Lyélé society - and a principle that should also be at the centre of all development activity.
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by Rosalyn Rappaport. When I say I have written a handbook of Crop Protection for Africa, eyes glaze over. When I add that it includes a lot of cartoon strips, my listener usually wakes up.
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Following a recent eye health tour in Uganda, a group of experts (Drs Sandford-Smith, Hall, Waddell and Mattus) have been concerned to discover the abuse of chloroquine. Most health workers keep stocks of chloroquine to treat malaria. The drug is cheap, easy to obtain and very effective. However, what is not so widely known is that if high doses of this drug are taken over a long period of time, then eyesight is damaged. The damage is very gradual and slight at first. However, there is no ...
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by Clinton Robinson. Literacy is certainly not a matter of ‘just teaching someone to read’! The first essential is to have a written language. There are still many unwritten languages around the world, so if yours is one of these there is still hope - but a great deal more work will be involved to reach this essential first step.
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Project planning guidelines There are few useful resources we can recommend on the subject of project planning. However, Tear Fund have prepared a series of guidelines on a variety of subjects, including Guidelines for Planning and Implementing Relief and Development Activities. This is a step-by-step, four-page guide to all the different stages involved in project planning.
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Our hands from the Salvation Army, Vepery, Madras. Read Ecclesiastes 9:10 and Psalm 31: 14-15. Ask yourself some of these questions...
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by Mridula Banyopadhyay The year 2000 is fast approaching and the goal of achieving ‘Health for all’ by the year 2000 is staring at us. In spite of all the programmes and policies to deliver primary health care, health for all has not been achieved in most of the developing countries of the world.
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Just as the survey has provided us with a fascinating picture of you, our readers, many of you have asked for more information about Footsteps and Tear Fund! These few pages give an introduction to Footsteps and to what our readers think of it.
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Fair shares with plastic pipes by Rus Alit. While I was working in Indonesia in the village of Sarinbuana with rural water supplies, a neighbouring village came up with their own interesting idea.
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