Author: tyfairclough
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Challenge emigration and the power of music
Travel2Change have launched their latest challenge – click the infographic for further details: Facebook hosted contest The Challenge is NOT limited to US citizens and anyone can submit an idea to win $500 towards a trip with AVIF to support one of our existing hosts or even a new host of your choice. News of…
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Kids & AI
Taken from Kurzweil AI, a truly amazing story: Given tablets but no teachers, Ethiopian children teach themselves October 29, 2012 (Credit: OLPC) Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only…
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Challenges and Being Unreasonable
We would like to publicise a fantastic new Challenge in partnership with Travel2Change and GOOD Maker. You have A CHANCE TO WIN $1000 to USE TRAVEL FOR GOOD if your submission is selected. Deadline OCTOBER 31, 2012. Further details here, though unfortunately the Challenge is only open to US Citizens. Being Unreasonable, however, is open…
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A valuable lesson from the Arctic
The Uummannaq Children’s Home is located in a small isolated town on a small island in a large fjord on the North-West coast of Greenland, about 600 km north of the Arctic Circle. The Children’s Home is one of the northern-most residential round-the-clock institutions for children and young people – in the world! It is…
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DEMO VC4Africa Launchpad
Really exciting! .. our partnership with Californian-based TerraEndeavors is now in the running for entry and invites to the DEMO & VC4Africa Launchpad in Nairobi next month. VC4Africa are a peer to peer network connecting entrepreneurs and our powerful ideas with the info and capital we need to effect change. AVIF first registered the Uhundha…