AIDS and mothers’ rights

We recently offered some printed materials to our registered users (the OXFAM Gender Training manual, Stepping Stones training package on HIV/AIDS, and a set of French flannelgraphs for health education). The three NGOs who received them were: CISS in Kisumu, Kenya, an NGO that works with communities, increasing their participation in the democratic process, in community-managed development etc. People in Need , An NGO in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka funded by the Czech Republic, working to rebuild physical and social structures after the Tsunami. The Pemba Island Relief Organisation (PIRO) Tanzania which has a small resource centre for local NGOs and supports CBOs working to strengthen Sexual Reproductive Health Information & Services. Does your own NGO have materials that you really do not use? You could circulate a list to the members of NGO groups to which you belong, offering a loan or a swop. Unused Manuals and other materials are wasted resources.

Tarifs Les organisations situées dans les pays du Nord et qui souhaitent utiliser les documents de ce site sont invités à verser €20/$25 afin de nous aider à couvrir nos frais de fonctionnement. Pour le paiement, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter . Les organisations en Afrique, Asie, Amérique du Sud et dans les pays de l’ancienne Union Soviétique peuvent télécharger gratuitement ces documents; MAIS . . . ce que nous attendons de vous assurer la distribution des documents qui vous semblent utiles. Vous avez à votre disposition des documents gratuits. Nous ne sommes pas payés. Donc, en retour, essayer de faire passer ces documents à au moins deux ONG. Certaines organisations ne disposent pas d’imprimantes ou ont des lignes téléphoniques en mauvais état. Pouvez vous alors recopier les manuels pour ces groupes contre une petite contribution financière ? Nos documents ne sont pas protégés par copy-rights. Les utilisateurs peuvent donc librement recopier, traduire et adapter ces documents aux cultures locales. Si vous rencontrez des difficultés lors du téléchargement, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter .

Big business, with its pursuit of profit at all costs, creates some huge problems in society. Such as poisoned environments, factories run with slave labour… and the process of globalisation is spreading them everywhere. So what can the little person do? Just this: make a conscious choice not to participate – and actively search out better alternatives. Because while the world is awash with stuff we don’t need, we definitely do need more ethical entrepreneurs. And, at the same time, conscious consumers. A nice example is Sanchi Bags, recently started up in India with the vision to promote the use of eco-friendly products and empower women. The idea is that the fashionable bags – including ones for laptops and tablets – will attract youth into the “go green” movement and become trendsetters across generations. The bags are made from locally-sourced biodegradable material and, most importantly, manufactured in their own households by suburban and rural woman homemakers. You can connect with Sanchi via their facebook page www.facebook.com/sanchibags

If you work in a region where there has been periods of warfare, major displacement and/or huge repression, your workers have surely met people suffering from mental stress and other problems. Is this a good time to think of actively helping them, in a systematic and informed way? Our new manual Finding Mental Health after Conflict (28 pp. PDF) can guide you with this work. Two new Arabic titles: We now have Arabic language versions of An Introduction to Human Rights in the Middle East & North Africa – a Guide for NGOs (49 pp. PDF) as well as our popular title, A Guide to Fundraising (10 pp. PDF). For more, see our manuals and resources in Arabic Since our last announcement, we have also added a guest publication, the illustrated We can play and move: ideas to help disabled children learn to move through play .

How many of you are involved in the care of people at the end of their lives – who may have cancer, AIDS or pneumonia?

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Networklearning website has been updated after a long period of behind-the-scenes redevelopment. It is now in a new format , Joomla! . This will allow us to be more up-to-date and interact better. (On the other hand if you find any problems using the new site let us know!)