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Your NGO’s website is the most important vehicle for presenting your work, not least to donors. It needs to do the job properly. For NGOs in the South who need help upgrading an existing website, we at networklearning now offer a Free Website Critique – in addition to Low-cost Website upgrade & Editing Service s. For NGOs who have no budget for a site we also inform you how you can have a good, small website developed completely free of charge (via a partner organization), providing you can meet certain conditions. » Networklearning Services » Also see our short online guide to ‘ Setting up a website for your NGO ‘.

NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software, tailored to the needs of NGOs. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this. > http://base.ngoinabox.org/

There is currently a lot of attention in the global news for the Ebola virus. Yet the people most at risk often lack the essential knowledge, and the means, to protect themselves adequately. Our colleague Shine writes from Monrovia, Liberia: “I am sure you have heard about the Ebola outbreak in some parts of West Africa, affecting Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in particular. It’s the worst outbreak ever recorded. Over 1,100 people have died and the World Health Organization has declared it a global health emergency.

Here is something to celebrate. In fact three lives to celebrate – those of the three women who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize this year. One of them is Leymah Gbowee, aged 39, for her work in mobilizing women from across Liberia’s ethnic and religious divides.

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 .