Education

Help Children Mending Hearts Shop for Class Supplies

On April, we posted about Children Mending Hearts and asked you to vote for them on GOOD Maker. A couple of months have passed and CMH will be reaching over 1,500 students in the next six months with over twenty classes at various locations in the Los Angeles area and exchange partners...

Malala Day: Teens ready to report on historic education summit

Tomorrow, on Friday 12 July 2013, Malala Yousafzai will celebrate her 16th birthday by delivering a keynote speech to the United Nations advocating global education. The teenage was brutally shot in the head in November 2012 by the Taliban in Pakistan, for being a schoolgirl and asking...

Half The Sky Movement: The Game: Race to One Million!

We already dedicated several news to Half the Sky, in February and then in March. We think Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are doing an amazing, inspiring job. They take a break from filming in Cartagena, Colombia, to encourage you and your friends to join the Half the Sky Movement and...

Myanmar bans Time magazine, CMH Global Arts After School, War Deaths in Syria, Grim Anniversary in Sudan

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Myanmar bans Time magazine for story about monk; CMH Global Arts After School summer programming; War Deaths in Syria Said to Top 100,000; A Grim Anniversary in Sudan. - Myanmar bans Time magazine for story about monk -...

Taliban victim Malala Yousafzai starts school in UK

Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan while advocating girls’ education, attended her first day of school in the UK, weeks after being released from hospital. The 15-year-old, who is among nominees for this year’s Nobel peace...

Half the Sky Movement: The Game now on Facebook

Last month we published a news: Half the Sky Movement: The Game and other cause games. Since yesterday you can play Half the Sky Movement: The Game on Facebook. We have played the game and it’s great. Critics so far have been very good and enthusiastic: The Los Angeles Times writes:...

Half the Sky Movement: The Game and other cause games

If you have been reading the Sama Gazette and now the MagkaSama Project, you must be familiar with Half the Sky. First there was the book: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. We organized a discussion group when the...