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22/02/2012
Vicky Brown- Clean City
Vicky Brown is a Cameroonian artist who has been working with Living Earth to raise awareness and understanding on a range of social and environmental issues affecting communities within Cameroon. His most recent video- Clean City, featuring Cameroonian artist Final D, is a lively track about turning waste to wealth in Douala, Cameroon. Further information [...]
21/02/2012
Raising awareness about the right to clean environment in Douala
In January and February 2012, Fondation Camerounaise Terre Vivante (FCTV), undertook an awareness-raising campaign in Douala to raise awareness about citizens’ rights to a clean and healthy environment. The project team distributed a number of leaflets and held meetings with community members to discuss the different benefits associated with a clean living environment. This was [...]
20/02/2012
Nigeria Schools’ Workshops- December 2011
In December 2011, Living Earth Foundation and arts facilitators Caged Beastie, spent a week working with students from two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Community Secondary School Rumoumasi is a Government funded establishment, attended by the less affluent local demographic, for whom uniforms are provided and no school fees charged. Graceland School, by comparison, is [...]
04/01/2012
Nuiqsut Comic
Scottish teachers visiting the North Slope Borough of Alaska this October, as part of the Polar Pairs Teacher Exchange Programme, participated in the introduction of the new Inupiaq Learning Framework – a culturally defined curriculum approach that is currently being rolled out across the Borough. Teachers from both sides of the exchange and students from [...]
20/12/2011
Handover of briquette machines to SMEs in Lubaga Division and Nansana
On the 24th November and 6th December 2011, Living Earth Uganda awarded two small micro enterprises in Lubaga Division and four small micro enterprises (SMESs) in Nansana with charring drums and chop stick briquette machines. The successful SMEs received briquette machines, handed to them officially by the mayor of Lubaga Division and Technical staff of [...]
09/12/2011
Living Earth Uganda wins the 2011 Global NGO Award for Fundraising
The Resource Alliance, an International Non Government Organisation whose mission is to build the fundraising capacity of the non-profit sector worldwide, organised the 2011 Global NGO award for fundraising best practices among NGOs worldwide; over thirty NGOs competed for the award. Living Earth Uganda emerged as the winner of the category “Big Idea, Small Budget” [...]
01/12/2011
FCTV attends CARPE Workshop
In November 2011, Fondation Camerounaise de la Terre Vivante (FCTV), attended a workshop organised by CARPE which brought together different NGOs that had been funded by CARPE over the last year. FCTV presented the results and achievements of its bushmeat project, more details of which can be found here (link to the bushmeat webpage). A [...]
17/11/2011
Barclays Bank Uganda, partners with Living Earth Uganda
Barclays Bank Uganda Ltd and Living Earth Uganda, undertook a sensitization and cleanup exercise on 5th November, 2011 at Katwe Kalintunsi on Entebbe Road as part of the Barclays Make A Difference Day (MADD) initiative; engaging staff, local community leaders and community members. The main objective was to pay tribute to a Barclays staff member, [...]
14/11/2011
From Kilts to Caribou- The Polar Pairs Teacher Exchange continues to enhance education from Aberdeenshire to the Arctic
Scottish teachers visiting the North Slope Borough of Alaska this October participated in the implementation of the School Districts ground breaking new curriculum approach; the culturally defined ‘Inupiaq Learning Framework’, and took home lessons and insights that will feed into the Scottish ‘Curriculum for Excellence’. During a busy week of activity, the cohort of six [...]
14/11/2011
Multi stakeholder workshop on Public Private Partnerships in Cameroon
On 22nd September 2011, FCTV organised a multi-stakeholder workshop at Douala City Council to present the findings of a review on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Cameroon and Douala particularly. FCTV commissioned the review in order to identify the policy context for formulating PPPs in Cameroon, the barriers and challenges that PPPs face and to document [...]
