In response to the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is joining the Ad Council to launch a national public awareness campaign. The campaign encourages Americans to spread awareness of the crisis, support the humanitarian organizations conducting the relief operations, and learn more about the solutions through President Obama’s Feed the Future initiative. The campaign is titled FWD, or famine, war and drought, which is an acronym for the three crises affecting the Horn. USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah is unveiling the campaign at the White House this afternoon during a live-streamed roundtable discussion.
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Today leading window manufacturer The VELUX Group and the social business Little Sun announce a partnership with the NGO Plan International to distribute a new solar lamp – the Natural Light solar lamp – in three African countries: Zimbabwe, Zambia and Senegal. The partnership with Plan International will deliver sustainable solar-powered light to people living off-grid in areas without electricity, through a program that involves and empowers local communities.
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Globally, 1.2 billion people have no access to electricity. On the occasion of VELUX 75th anniversary the company decided to address this issue. Together with the social business Little Sun and the NGO Plan International they are collaborating to bring clean, reliable and affordable light to off-grid regions in Zambia, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe.
14,500 Natural Light lamps from the VELUX Group have now arrived in Africa and the first recipients can already look forward to a better quality of life.
Among them are young girls between 10 and 18 years of age who live in a safe house in the slum area Mntendere in the Zambian capital Lusaka.
"The lamps mean the girls can do their homework when they get back from school and can feel safer at night, instead of huddling together in the dark after sunset. And it’s particularly important for our children that they feel safe – many are carrying the mental baggage such as the trauma of violence, rape or drugs," says safe house manager Verann Delarey.
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On Saturday, June 3, the latest wonder in the MSC Cruises fleet, MSC Meraviglia was christened in a glittering ceremony by international screen legend and godmother of all of MSC Cruises’ ships, Sophia Loren. At 171,598 GRT and with guest capacity of 5,714 (4,488 at double occupancy), MSC Meraviglia is the biggest ship to be built by a European ship owner, MSC Cruises, and also the biggest ship to come into service in 2017.
MSC Cruises, the Swiss-based world’s largest privately-owned cruise line and brand market leader in Europe, South America and South Africa, hosted the glamorous, high-profile event in Le Havre, with entertainment from top international performers and an exclusive gala dinner in the company of special guests, authorities, key partners from the travel industry, global media and top management from MSC Cruises and its parent company MSC Group. Gianluigi Aponte, MSC Group’s founder and executive chairman as well as the ship owner, attended together with the Aponte and Aponte-Vago families.
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How worthy are the poor and the oppressed people in the eyes of national and international communities? This is the main question of this book, which presents the despair of the population of the third world countries, who endlessly cry their sorrows so that meaningful international attention would be granted to them.
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) helps travelers ‘see the world’ by showcasing each of its four high-performing regions — The Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East and Africa — in its just-issued interactive 2012 Annual Report online at www.marriott.com/investor.
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Farmers in Ivory Coast struggle with a mango harvest season that is as short as the fruit is sweet.
“For a 4-6 week period in April and May, the country is flooded with good mangos, but it ends abruptly when the rainy season starts. From then on, the mango just starts decaying,” explains Mathew Shed, container manager in the specialist shipping company Africa Express Line (AEL).
“We were approached in April by Eolis, a CF logistics company, who asked for some kind of smart solution that would keep the fruit delicious and marketable for a longer time,” he adds.
The solution turned out to be special reefer containers. With quick help from a container leasing company and a container depot in Antwerp, Belgium, Star Cool containers were upgraded to work with controlled atmosphere, in short known as CA, and sent to Ivory Coast.
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Christy award winning novelist Lisa Samson and her daughter, Ty, travel from suburban America to Africa to minister and chronicle the AIDS crisis. They thought their trip would be missional, merciful and giving. Instead they are transformed in ways and places they never expected.
Love Mercy Lisa and Ty Samson Book Trailer Find out more about this author here http://lisasamson.typepad.com
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Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) players, Kumar Sangakkara, Brett Lee and Sreesanth together with Bollywood actress and club co-owner, Preity Zinta, will connect with fans from around the world via a new service launched by mig33, the leading global mobile community. The new service, mig33s Cricket FanZone, enables KXIP fans to connect via their mobile phones with other fans and to cheer on their favorite team and players during the Indian Premier League in South Africa. At the launch event, which will be held in Nyanga Cricket Stadium in Cape Town, over forty local school children from an after schools cricket development programme will get the chance to meet and receive coaching and cricketing tips from the players, Celebrity chat and launch event to take place on Wednesday 15 April, 2009 16h30 in Nyanga Cricket Stadium, Cape Town
