A United Front to Combat Malaria

By Dr. Ana Margarida Setas-Ferreira

Dr. Ana Margarida Setas-Ferreira

Growing up in Angola, I witnessed the cruel and devastating impact of malaria, as well as experienced this horrific disease firsthand. 

Later, as a mother, I was grateful to have access to preventive therapies while pregnant so that I could protect myself and my two sons could be born healthy.  

The Game of Life: How Africare, ExxonMobil and the NBA are using sports to empower African youth

By Darius Mans, President, Africare

Darius Mans at Power Forward Launch

Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, I was fairly sure I’d never make it as a basketball star. I played for my high school team, but most of the time my tall self sat on the bench.

One game, though, I got a chance to put my skills on display. Our team was safely ahead. We must have been up by about 50 points. My friends were in the arena watching, and they started chanting, “Put him in! Put him in!” Finally, the coach gave in and sent me onto the court. Right away, I fouled, then traveled and gave up the ball, and I might have even scored for the other team.

CONNECTING WITH THE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED THROUGH GAMES – HOW COCA-COLA IS HELPING TO BUILD BRIDGES

By Vicky Wireko Andoh

Disabilities, particularly in toddlers and infants were once-upon-a –time considered unusual and therefore a taboo in a society.  For this reason, families felt reluctant and indeed embarrassed to raise children with any form of disability.

The Miners Foreign Exchange Retention: Essence, Concerns and Way Out

By Alhassan Atta-Quayson, Third World Network Africa

Preparations for Mining Operations

Introduction

On Monday, August 19, 2013, the Public Accounts Committee expressed shock at foreign exchange retention schemes operated by mining companies in the country and asked for investigations to be carried out with immediate effect.

The committee had just begun to examine reports of the Auditor-General and the interest triggered by the issue prompted the Chairman of the committee to halt discussions and ask for members with concerns to wait until the committee moves into a closed door meeting.

Illegal water connections – Communities urged to expose culprits

By Yvette Appiah,

(GWJN, Ghana Watsan Journalists Network)

Mr Ibrahim Musah

The Head of Policy and Partnership at WaterAid Ghana, Mr Ibrahim Musah, has lamented the excessive loss of treated water that is unaccounted for, when many parts of the country are still lacking in terms of water provision.

Entreating community members across the country to expose members who illegally connect and siphon water, he called on Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to also deal with the numerous gallons of treated unaccounted for water that does not reach consumers in the process of distribution.

Only 40% of Ghanaians aware of Water Policy - WaterAid

By Yvette Appiah

(GWJN, Ghana Watsan Journalists Network)

The Government of Ghana has been asked as a key measure of improving access to water, to disseminate the water policy to the majority of Ghanaians, to enhance implementation of the policy.

Head of Policy and Partnership at WaterAid Ghana, Mr Ibrahim Musah, said policy distribution or dissemination by translating it into local languages for the citizenry to understand has not been done.

Making Reproductive Rights a Global Priority

By Dr. Gamal Serour, Director of the International Islamic Center for Population Studies and Research at Al Azhar University

 

The Author

On April 5^th, the world began the 1,000-day countdown to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline. Created in 2000, the MDGs spurred action from governments, international organizations, and civil society.

In recent years, we have cut the global poverty rate in half, reduced the prevalence of deadly diseases, improved sanitation, narrowed the gender gap, and more. Although we have made progress toward these Goals, there is still much to be done, especially for the girls and women of the Muslim world.