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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Philanthropy

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Tony Elumelu champions youth entrepreneurship across Africa, advocates for investment over aid

      With a burgeoning youth population estimated to be one half of the world’s youth by 2,100, and the highest entrepreneurship rates across the globe - where over 20% of working-age Africans launching new businesses and more than 75% of young people intend to start one within the next five years - it is within this landscape of ambition and potential that Africa's path to development and prosperity […]

todayMay 21, 2024 46

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World

Development finance: how it works, where it goes, why it’s needed

      By Abdul Latif Alhassan, University of Cape Town and Bomikazi Zeka, University of Canberra   Development finance is the invisible glue that connects public and private financing for projects that have social, economic and environmental outcomes. These include improved infrastructure, better waste management and sanitation, financial inclusion, clean energy and sustainable agriculture. The goal of development finance is to create positive social, economic or environmental outcomes through […]

todayApril 17, 2024 41

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Business / Economics

Donor-advised funds: US regulators are scrambling to catch up with the boom in these charitable giving accounts

DAFs more or less operate as a mini foundation. Wong Yu Liang/Moment via Getty Images   By Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University   A revolution in charitable giving is underway due to the growth of donor-advised funds in the United States. Known widely as DAFs, these financial accounts are designated for charitable giving. Donors can get an immediate tax deduction by putting money or other assets into the accounts, […]

todayMarch 19, 2024 4

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Africa

Happy smiling African children: why school tourism in Zimbabwe shouldn’t be encouraged

Children will often sing and dance for visiting tourists. Pascal Deloche/GODONG Kathleen Smithers, Charles Sturt University A large, air-conditioned bus draws up outside a school. Tourists, most from Europe and the US, disembark, cameras at the ready. Some have brought gifts: packages of pens and pencils. They distribute these to the children, who spontaneously begin singing and dancing. This scene and others like it play out in schools around the […]

todayMarch 11, 2024 9

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Bank Windhoek support schools with basic needs

    Between January and February 2024, Bank Windhoek’s Marketing and Corporate Communication Services Department donated toiletries and stationery items to the Baumgartsbrum Farm School and the Rocky Crest High School in Windhoek. The initiative is part of the Bank Windhoek’s Empathy Project. Situated about 20 kilometres from Windhoek towards the Daan Viljoen dam, Baumgartsbrum Farm School is a government boarding school accommodating 280 learners from less privileged backgrounds, mainly […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024 19

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Capricorn Group Changemakers support the Schools for the Visually and Hearing Impaired

    Living up to their purpose of being Connectors of Positive Change, Capricorn employees, as Changemakers, dedicated a day to giving back to the School for the Visually and the School of the Hearing Impaired by donating various items and equipment to the two schools, carrying out renovations and doing fun activities with the learners. The event, which took place on Friday, 2 February 2024, brought together a group […]

todayFebruary 5, 2024 9

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Business / Economics

New Global alliance for women’s health could help boost global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040

  A new World Economic Forum report released today shows that closing the women’s health gap would allow more women to live healthier, higher-quality lives, and provide an unprecedented boost to the global economy. Closing the Women’s Health Gap: A $1 Trillion Opportunity to Improve Lives and Economies, developed in collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute, analyses the health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women and quantifies the health gap […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024 13

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Business / Economics

Amidst Ongoing Global Crises, Gates Foundation announces largest annual budget ever: $8.6 Billion in 2024 to save and improve lives

  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced its largest annual budget to date as it works toward the goal of a healthier, more prosperous world for all. With global health budgets in decline overall, a portion of the additional funding will go toward advancing global health innovations that will save and improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people, including newborn babies and pregnant mothers […]

todayJanuary 15, 2024 12

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Lifestyle

6 guiding principles for custom-tailoring a career and life of purpose

  College grads, those between jobs and anyone looking to make a career shift will find an abundance of practical wisdom in the book, Success on Your Own Terms: 6 Promises to Fire Up Your Passion, Ignite Your Career and Create an Amazing Life. Written by Christian hip-hop media owner and CEO James Rosseau, Success on Your Own Terms shares Rosseau’s inspiring blend of personal setbacks and triumphs, smart strategies, and lessons learned on […]

todayJanuary 11, 2024 21

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