who we are? For six decades‚ World Vision has been engaging people to work towards eliminating poverty and its causes. World Vision is committed to the poor because we are Christian. We work with people of all cultures‚ faiths and genders to achieve transformation. We do this through relief and development‚ policy advocacy and change‚ collaboration‚ education about poverty‚ and emphasis on personal growth‚ social justice and spiritual values. The action World Vision is committed to includes:
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The documentary Not My Life gave a tragic overview of the multiple forms of exploitation that children face around the world. Fishing boys in Ghana are forced to work in dangerous and sometimes deadly conditions. Street beggars in Senegal are abused‚ starved‚ and overworked. Impoverished children in India work in garbage dumps to try and make money. Young girls in Nepal start as laborers before being trafficked for sex in India when they grow older. The dehumanizing conditions child soldiers face
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Chapter 1 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1812-1.ch001 Ikeanyibe Okechukwu Marcellus University of Nigeria‚ Nigeria Ezeibe Chukwuebuka Christian University of Nigeria‚ Nigeria Regional Integration in West Africa: Exploring the Option of Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Academia and University System ABSTRACT Since its establishment in 1975‚ the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has faced the task of regional integration and cooperation in West Africa mainly through economic
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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS Mauritius was discovered by the Portuguese in 1507 and was later occupied by the Dutch‚ from 1598 up until 1710. In 1715‚ it came into the possession of the East India Company and in 1767‚ that of the King of France‚ who christened it ‘Ile de France’. Captured by the British in 1810 and then acknowledged by the Treaty of Paris in 1814‚ the British allowed the French settlers to use their language and their civil code. Many of the settlers remained and made up a group of Franco-Mauritian
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NAME :ADERIBIGBE ADEDOTUN Figure 14-2. West Africa: natural forest and plantation areas 2000 and net area change 1990-2000 The total volume of West African forests is estimated at approximately 5 billion cubic metres over bark‚ which is 11 percent of the volume of all African forests. The volume and biomass estimates for most countries are based on existing forest inventories. In humid zones‚ volume assessment is focused on timber volume. In dry zones‚ volume assessment usually includes the whole
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We are not talking about slavery in far-flung places like India‚ we are talking about enslavement in Mauritania‚ a desert sprawling country up north of Senegal. This incident will go down in history as the greatest failure of our generation because after a wrestler has beaten his opponent‚ he doesn ’t bother looking too deep into his scratch after the competition. He always rises above that scratch and say
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of decisionmaking (Figure 1.1). Conversely‚ slow human development can put an end to fast economic growth. According to Human Development Report 1996‚ “during 1960–1992 not a single country succeeded in moving from lopsided development with slow human development and rapid growth to a virtuous circle in which human development and growth can become mutually reinforcing.” Since slower human development has invariably been followed by slower economic growth‚ this growth Sustainable development
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The Sahel of North Africa is a semi-arid transition region between the Sahara desert to the Northern and wetter regions of middle Africa near the equator. This area stretches from the Atlantic ocean in the west to the Indian ocean in the east. The Sahel of North Africa has undergone extreme environmental changes over the past eleven thousand years. Due to the extreme climatic changes and social conflict that is prevalent in that region‚ Sahel has drawn the attention of the global community.
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population)‚ followed by Sub-Saharan Africa (39 per- cent) Countries in which more than half the population lives below the international poverty line include; – Guatemala‚ – Guinea-Bissau‚ – India‚ – Kenya‚ – Lesotho‚ – Madagascar‚ – Nepal‚ – Niger‚ – Senegal‚ – and Zambia • Analysts have found a strong positive relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. • For example‚ East Asia (excluding China)‚which contains the world’s fastest-growing economies‚ reduced the share of its population
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this caliphate survived for a long period of time. The rise to power was taken place because of a great military leader named Sonni Ali. This person was known to have “magic powers” and expanded the Songhay territory across the Niger Valley‚ west to Senegal and east to
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