Message from: Mrs. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director
It is often said that young people are our future. They are our present, too. It is today, and not tomorrow, that we must invest in young people and include them in solving the great challenges of our times. Today, more than a billion and a half people are between the ages of 10 and […]
Message from: Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
In the midst of a series of unprecedented crises affecting the lives of young people all around the world, the theme for this year’s International Youth Day ‘Sustainability: our challenge, our future’ could not be more relevant. Sustainability refers to three facets of life which are all affected by the current turmoil: the environment, society […]
Creating your Soundlides
Soundlide a coinage from the two words sound and slide (as in presentations) is an alternative to video. As you may be well aware it is important to keep documentary records of one’s activities as a social entrepreneur at least to remind yourself someday how far you have come and serve as guide to others […]
Africa Rural Connect (ARC)
Africa Rural Connect (ARC) is an experiment in global collaboration. We put our collective thoughts together to assemble the best business plans for agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. We suggest that the people who have lived or worked in Sub-Saharan Africa offer their perspectives or expertise to help women farmers and improve the livelihoods of […]
Financial Industry Receives 10 Times More Money in 1 year than Poor Countries Receive in 49 Years
Ahead of UN General Assembly’s high-level summit on the economic crisis on June 24-26, UN Millennium Campaign says new analysis indicates that finding money for aid is a matter of political will – not lack of resources – and calls on donors to finally meet their aid commitments June 23, 2009 – The United Nations […]
Setting the ball in motion
Watch this space and www.OluwakoredeAsuni.com/chronicles.html.
Released: Lekan Oshunkoya’s Now that You are a Graduate
Olamilekan Oshunkoya, Nigeria‘s only representative to the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Leadership program in cyprus has completed and released a graduate empowerment manual titled: Now that you are a Graduate. The 227 paged book addresses such interesting issues as success habits to covet, CV writting, Job hunting and Interview tips, all of which are important to […]
Twitter: Making an Editor out of us all
Flexible and Compatible! Not too long, I did a post on my facebook wall in my local language that we have yet to fully utilize facebook to its limits and now we have Twitter. Out of curiosity and having read a couple of posts on a colleagues Twitter page I decided to join the family […]
Marketing Communications…
I love marketing communications. I love the practioners too. I am sure my friend Lekan Oshunkoya will be amazed at my sudden love for this human endeavor. I love to hear it right and succinctly and to pass it on as same (that may be the reason I am considering a few weeks of internship […]
Official Release
Official Release: www.OluwakoredeAsuni.com Youth Corp Member Conceived, Designed and Transfers First Public School Web-portal in Niger State, Nigeria Oluwakorede Asuni, a batch A 2008 youth corp member completing his primary assignment at the Government Secondary School, Minna, Niger State has completed the design and implementation of a school web portal for Government Secondary School, Minna. […]