As much as 80 per cent of Nigerians, especially the low and middle income earners either rely on traditional health provider or combine the orthodox with the traditional. In many cases, a good proportion of this number depend almost exclusively on the traditional means for their health needs. 

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Dear All,

As an organisation working in the field of education I want to share some ideas on teaching and learning. Since several years I train teachers and trainers all over the world. For the moment I am on a consultancy in Mali where I conduct a pilot project on multigrade teaching.

Multigrade teaching is the way of teaching different grades in one classroom. Mali has a shortage of teahers and classrooms so multigrade is a temporary solution.

Together with my team I am developing teaching and learning materials for multigrade classes like:

HINT's IT project Rural Electrification And Communication Technology (REACT) has been selected as one of 145 finalists in the prestigious Stockholm challenge Award 2008 out of a total of over 2000 applicants from all over the world. Visit http://www.hintonline.org for more.

Here is the information letter as received this week:

Dear Tinshu Genesis Gemuh,

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HINT IT project Rural Electrification And Communication Technology (REACT) has been selected as one of 145 finalists in the prestigious Stockholm challenge Award 2008 out of a total of over 2000 applicants from all over the world.

Here is the information letter as received this week:

Dear Tinshu Genesis Gemuh,

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In spite of their dynamism, the Cameroonian women who represent more than 51% of the total population and who are mostly operating small businesses remain in a precarious stage with regards to their various incomes generating activities. One of the major concerns of the Government expressed through the PRSP (poverty reduction strategy paper) is the reinforcement of the women's incomes. The current strategy of implementing the New Information and Communication current technology in several sectors can also be used to enable these women to evolve in their activities.

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OLPCNEWS.COM proclaims itself to be: 

The site has an excellent blog and user support forums

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African Women Development Cooperative is one of the gender development projects of the Centre for Policy and Development.A response to the gender economic divide and the gender based challenges of sustainable wealth creation, AWDC aims to facilitate access to financial services, provide capacity building in financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills as well training in building enterprising businesses and sustainable livelihoods for African women.

The Human Rights and Justice Group International entry "Campaign Against Cyber Crime (CAC)" was selected as finalist under economic development for the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008.

The finalists have been selected from the excellent collection of ICT projects that have competed for the Stockholm Challenge 2008 six category awards and all are invited to come to Stockholm to participate in all parts of the event, show their work and meet with peers and many others who devote their time, skills and interest to ICT for development.

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The Human Rights and Justice Group International (Kabissa profile) entry "Campaign Against Cyber Crime (CAC)" was selected as finalist under economic development for the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008.

The finalists have been selected from the excellent collection of ICT projects that have competed for the Stockholm Challenge 2008 six category awards and all are invited to come to Stockholm to participate in all parts of the event, show their work and meet with peers and many others who devote their time, skills and interest to ICT for development.

We look forward to winning the final trouphy which I believe will take our Cyber Crime Project and ICT projects to a new level.

Read on for the full description of the Campaign Against Cyber Crime Project from the Stockholm Challenge Website.

World famous Senegalese musician, Youssour N'dour has founded an organization called Brima to help small business start ups and support emerging musicians and artists - particularly women and youth.