Dear friends and artists,

I'm developing a new project in collaboration with various international agencies and artists that blends the creative world with the humanitarian world around the issue of women/motherhood/maternal health.

Are you a young person who cares about what is happening in your community and Africa at large? Are you committed to working with others to overcome injustices?

Are you a young person who cares about what is happening in your community and Africa at large? Are you committed to working with others to overcome injustices? Do you want to learn from other young people working with their communities all around the world?

Our hearts and minds are with the people of Haiti in these crucial days after the earthquake. No matter where you are in the world, you can help. Below is a message from Erik Hersman of @ushahidi with a very good opportunity to volunteer online to help map and integrate info from Haiti for use by people in need and those who can provide relief.

Population Action Internation (PAI) is excited to provide a small grants program dedicated to supporting and empowering young people to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation - has partnered with IPS to create an online database to make civil society worldwide more accessible to the media. I learned about this today in a special mailing (pasted below) from eCivicus. This new database is a great idea and I recommend Kabissa members explore it and sign up. I do wonder, though - this means yet another online profile for CSOs to maintain. How does it add value beyond what is already provided for civil society organizations by services like Kabissa, Idealist and Wiser Earth, not to mention Wikipedia and Facebook Fan pages?

I found out about this through Twitter via @care - seems an ideal opportunity to get people together locally to reflect and work on the issues we care about.

Best,

Tobias

Dear Friend,