In Arabic: Caring for people with Physical Disabilities

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.

Publisher of the useful newsletter, Drum Beat , the Communication Initiative Network has recently modernised its website for knowledge sharing, networking and interaction: www.comminit.com

Do you get communications from ARROW in Malaysia? Their materials are great. And now they have some of their bulletins translated – in Thai, Mandarin, and Cebuano. If you are interested in obtaining free print copies, giving feedback, or having an AFC issue translated into an Asia-Pacific language, they would love to hear from you. Email to afc@arrow.po.my

Will you have the money for Windows 2012 or Apple SuperDuper? If you may not, think again about the no-cost alternatives. The Word Programme that you already have includes functions that have been around for over 20 years and will be perfectly adequate for your lifetime. OR there are free, good quality Open Source programmes that you can download: for example, OpenOffice does everything Word can: Could you write a good-looking document? Yes. Could you send it to colleagues whatever programme they are using and have them open it? Yes. Could you open old documents? Almost certainly. But if there is a really old document that you need but cannot open, you could consult Jon, our technical expert at networklearning. > Contact

Our comprehensive manual for startups, How to Build a Good Small NGO , is now available in French ( Comment Construire une Bonne Petite ONG ). Colleagues in the Arab world have carried out a study into issues and useful approaches in the field of Domestic Violence. You can read their report, Arabic domestic violence .

Some reports on encouraging recent developments for people with seeing and hearing difficulties…