Earth Overshoot Day 2014

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Earth Overshoot Day - www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/earth_overshoot_day/

 

"Earth Overshoot Day 2014 is quickly approaching! In mid-August, we will hit the date when humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. For the rest of the year, we will maintain our ecological deficit by drawing down local resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We will be operating in overshoot."

 

I didn't find a room because I am a female....

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It is a an expereince in brief about my difficluty in search for a room because of the practices in far western part of Nepal. A glimpse of what every female development workers face here.

End the painful political transition

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The article is an attempt to highlight the political transition and its impact on several aspects such as economy, infrastructure and tourism among others. The article also aims to point out why is it necessary to end the transition at the earliest. It also intends to discuss the feeling and aspirations of the people resulting from the painful political transition. Finally, it urges all to end it

How to run a youth volunteering action (PART II)

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This is a practical piece on how to devise, think and implement a youth led volunteering action. It is offers some insights, hopefully useful on implementing from scratch an impact oriented social action. How can you start? How to recruot and select the volunteers? How to raise resources?

How to run a youth volunteering action (PART I)

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This is a practical piece on how to devise, think and implement a youth led volunteering action. It is offers some insights, hopefully useful on implementing from scratch an impact oriented social action. The Part I is about be clear what is volunteerism and do the proper homework. Part II is about planning and implementation.

Lion In The Ocean

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Opinion. Fantasy. Truth. Fiction.

Adopted Territory by Anthropologist Dr. Elena J. Kim ( 2010)

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This a book review that i carried out recently and published by New Aisa Books. I would like to seek sharing4good readers comments on the children adoptions. Do we think adoption policies are in the best interest of the children always? If not how to make these policies that really work for the children who are in need of family? What should be the role of social workers in the adoption sector?

Ache in the back because of bag

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With weight as equivalent to eight kgs, almost one third of their total weight; they walk, carrying their bags to schools. This is the bitter reality of private schools of different countries. I pondered why they have to carry such heavy loads on their slender shoulder. Doctors say it shouldn't be more than 10 percent of their total bodyweight. I did enquiry with some of the kids myself on that note. The responds I was replied to, really astonished me. They do it because of their schools' pressure, asking them to bring all the books and copies.

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