Homeshores Direct, a Festival 365 of World Cultures
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FEATURED LINKS:
Foxy, your smart agent, has searched out a number of useful and featured Links that we believe can benefit you and your organisation today. These will guide you towards influential associations, think tanks, directories, social movements, social causes, social eMarketplace, cultural, apex & other leader organisations. In addition we include some providers of critical products and services that can be combined with VoxLabs System Displays at points of sale in Community-wide Outlets, which can be opened at diverse locations - in Colleges, Cooperatives, Credit Unions, Corporations or other locations that serve your Community worldwide either online, offline or mobile. Checkout below: Grassroot Soccer & Nike (Red) Laces campaign for World Cup 2010; Jamii Bora in Kenya with Unitus; Mary Robinson's Realizing Rights initiative; Fair Trade: The Movie; Socialnomics on Social Media Revolution; Natalie Portman interview on FINCA'S Microfinance plans; C.O.O.P - Cooperating out of poverty; TeleNursing- ICN Global Shortage of Nurses; The Guinness 250th Global bash or DotCoop Directory below.
GRASSROOT SOCCER AFRICA & NIKE (RED) LACES CAMPAIGN
Founded in 2003, Grassroot Soccer has already empowered over 270,000 African youth with the knowledge, social support, and life skills they need to live HIV-free. Please donate today and help Kick AIDS in Africa!On December 1, 2009, World AIDS Day, soccer superstars Didier Drogba, Joe Cole, and Clint Dempsey stood together in London with pop legend and humanitarian Bono to announce Nike’s new partnership with (RED) to fight HIV in Africa through sport. As Nike’s long-term partner in the fight against HIV and AIDS, Grassroot Soccer features in Nike’s story-telling around this initiative, bringing to life how football can play a powerful role in educating youth about HIV prevention.
UNITUS MICROFINANCE & EAST AFRICA BUSINESS REPORT, KENYA
Unitus President Ed Bland and our microfinance partner Jamii Bora Trust featured on CNBC Africa. Learn more about Unitus's work to accelerate the growth of microfinance at www.unitus.com About the incredible work of Jamii Bora & its 200,000 members in the slums. Ed highlights four great needs - more bottom-up solutions, need for more social entrepreneurs, much more microfinance and.....more people aka.more believers. There is an 80% shortfall in supply of microfinance, but there is a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid (refer book by CK Prahalad). Or simply listen to the amazing founder of Jamii Bora ('not even the sky is the limit' motto), Ingrid Munro, as she talks to passionately to JP Morgan & Prof Yunus - its not charity she seeks, just enlightened self-interest.
GUINNESS RELAND: 250th BIRTHDAY, GLOBAL PARTY CELEBRATIONS- 24th September, 2009
Memorable for its deep Irish Heritage that stretches back to 1759, Ireland being where VoxLabs was founded. Since then it has made an incalculable contribution in promoting Irish Culture, by helping foster the Gatherings & Craic, in equal measure, at Guinness Irish Pubs throughgout the world. Has become an integral party of the Irish way of life and life of Irish Diaspora everywhere. It has supported many Irish MSME's through merchandise licensing of their brand to them over many years, and in showcasing their quality at their Storehouse Museum - where their party starts and goes on worldwide throughout Irish Pubs at home and abroad on 24th. Happy 250th Birthday Arthur!
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FINCA & its 100,000 Village Banks goal: Natalie Portman interview
Natalie Portman appears on The View to talk about FINCA International, a microfinance organization. Natalie is co-chair, along with Queen Rania of Jordan, of the FINCA Village Banking Campaign with the goal of creating a 100,000 new village banks in the poorest countries of the world by 2010.
DIRECTORY.COOP
Founded by NCBA in USA with registration of restricted top-level domain at ICANN in 2001 with support of Coops apex organisation ICA in Geneva, to clearly identify Coops. DotCooperation (DotCoop) now runs the only complete Directory of online Coops. Visit this site, search and select products from among c.4000 registered coops ranges and VoxLabs can add a unique customised presentation display and system for instant appeal to your customers. Click on directory.coop image for web link.
dotCoop Directory
GLOBAL CO-OPERATIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST POVERTY
This page carries news and reports about poverty reduction events around the world. It also provides links to 12 news feeds on poverty related issues from Eldis as well as an icanews.coop feed. Click on C.O.O.P image for site link. - Launch of Co-operative Facility for Africa - COOPAfrica.
The Cooperative Facility for Africa - COOPAfrica was launched on the 1st and 2nd October 2007 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The project which the ICA has been involved in preparing, will be implemented by the ILO. Agencies cooperating with the ILO on this project are, among others, the Department for International Development - UK (DFID), the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Co-operatives (COPAC), the Co-operative College of the United Kingdom, and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and the ICA. The project to be located at the ILO Office in Dar es Salaam will work in close collaboration with national co-operative organizations, government ministries responsible for co-operative development, co-operative training institutions, and relevant NGOs. The project aims at improving the governance, performance and efficiency of local co-operatives in order to strengthen their capacity to create jobs, access markets, generate income, reduce poverty, provide social protection and give people a voice in civil society. In the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The project will initially be implemented in 15 countries, namely: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Southern Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The launch was preceded by a workshop of stakeholders (representatives of apex organizations, co-operative training institutions, governments, and international organizations) who had constructive discussions on project content, delivery, roles and functions. The launch was attended by large number of co-operative leaders from the Africa region.
TELE-NURSING
Advances in telecommunications technologies are revolutionising education and health services globally, including the provision of nursing services. Decreasing time and distance, these advances increase access to health and healthcare, especially to underserved populations and those living in rural and remote areas. They help to manage the demand for services, ensure more effective use of human and health resources and facilitate education and research activities. [INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF NURSES, GENEVA]
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