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What is your Interest?: Sustainable Development

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Name of Company / Organization:: Foundation for Sustainable Development

What would you most like to get out of this network, for example in terms of learning or support?: A support network of individuals interested in helping out in the field of sustainable development.

What is your current job and/or what field are you studying?: volunteering with FSD; field of sustainable development

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FSD supports the efforts of grassroots development organizations in Latin America, East Africa, and Asia that are working to better the communities, environments, and the economic opportunities around them. Through our programs, we aim to raise international awareness of the economic challenges in developing countries and support cross-cultural communities in finding more effective solutions to development issues.

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Las Mentes Bien Preparadas, by Kelly Mannion

“Promocionar y desarrollar integralmente al hombre, generando igualdad de accesos y oportunidades.” This is the central mission of Fundación Pro Humanae Vitae, a group of dedicated volunteers tied together by overpowering belief in the equal development of the human person in every s…

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Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 5:57pm — No Comments (Add)

Bridging the Digital Gap, by Lynda Blancato

Living in the United States we are constantly wired—communicating with our friends via instant messenger, using the wealth of information that Wikipedia provides to research some unknown person, event, or place, or even reading articles from newspapers and magazines across the globe—all tools…

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Posted on August 6th, 2008 at 3:56pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Implementation in India, by Cynthia Goitia

It is perplexing to think that in all my time spent in development-focused courses, taken in Sweden, Chile and California in an attempt to derive some comparison, I found repeated emphasis on theories and inflated economic prowess without ever understanding how exactly things get done. Implementation. And yet one week into my internship in India I came to understand the decisive weight of bottom-up community solutions in generating sustainable development. Unlike a mere paragraph in a greater…

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Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 2:55pm — No Comments (Add)

Las Historias de Warmi (Warmi Stories), by Sarah Connette

For the past 5 weeks I have been working at Centro Integral Warmi, a small non-profit community center in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia. In addition to running a day-care center and a library, Warmi operates a soap factory that employs ten mothers in the community. The w… Continue

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 at 2:26pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Making A Difference With Cow Dung, by Lisa Curtis

People always talk about “making a difference.” It’s a catchy phrase to use, “Make a difference, call your Senator” or “Make a difference, recycle your bottle.” Personally, I find it a phrase that is all too easy to say and much, much harder to do. But then today it suddenly hit me that I might actually make a tangible difference in people’s lives. … Continue

Posted on July 16th, 2008 at 11:56am — 4 Comments (Add)

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At 5:19am on April 25th, 2008, DR.J.CHRISTOPHER DANIEL said…: Dear Pamela:

Greetings to you.I would invite you to be my great friend.Please visit my developmentcrossing page and my organisation's website:www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org. Our GOODWILL's children has recently participated in the international poster contest organised by Nature's voice-Our Choice,a US based NGO.Kindly access the following:

http://naturesvoice-ourchoice.org/index.php/Poster-Contest.html

If you are interested in partnering with GOODWILL and financially supporting our work,Please let me know.Kind regards

Dr.J.Christopher Daniel
Executive Director
Goodwill social work centre
Madurai,India