Traper@s de Emaús de Granada Promessothèque - Dites au monde « Je le ferai, à condition que vous m'aidiez » Citizen Effect Failing to Learn from Failure | Admitting Failure Failure In 1972, shortly after the liberation war, I was sent by CARE to Bangladesh, “a thumbprint of a country in a vast continent” as Tahmima Anam has so eloquently described it. I was to work on a self-help housing cooperative project. We provided plans, material and technical assistance to help people build their own low-cost, cyclone-resistant houses. We imported thousands of tons of cement and enough corrugated tin sheets to cover a dozen football fields. While I was in Dhaka ordering freighters full of cement from Thailand, a tiny organization was forming on the other side of town, and in the rural areas of faraway Sylhet to the north. Over the years I have been privileged to return to Bangladesh many times, often to work with BRAC on a project design or an evaluation or a report. Learning The development business is largely uncharted territory.
Venture Camp - A fully immersive new startup ecosystem Proyectos Acción Social ServiceNation : A campaign to inspire a new era of voluntary citizen service in America Bolder Giving Ottawa shrugs off UN warning on hunger and nutrition The UN’s right-to-food envoy is raising the alarm about hunger and poor diets in Canada, but the federal government says he’s wasting his breath. The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, has just wrapped up an official 11-day investigation into food security in Canada. He has concluded that Canada is flouting its international human-rights obligations by ignoring hunger within its own borders, even as 800,000 households here don’t have the wherewithal to ensure they can put proper food on the table. “What I’ve seen in Canada is a system that presents barriers for the poor to access nutritious diets and that tolerates increased inequalities between rich and poor, and aboriginal (and) non-aboriginal peoples,” Mr. De Schutter said. He said he was particularly concerned about the large number of people living on social assistance who see their income drained away by housing, and can’t afford to provide an adequate diet for their families. Mr. Mr.