Updates (Stories / Events / Petition)

Ambassador Power To Host #WhatMatters Twitter Town Hall

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power will host a Twitter Town Hall this Thursday, August 15 at 3:00 pm EDT. From her @AmbassadorPower Twitter account, the Ambassador will respond to tweets and questions that use the hashtag #WhatMatters, originally introduced in...

The MagkaSama Project will be back mid-September!

We will be taking a brief hiatus (a couple of weeks) so we won’t post new content posted until the middle of September. In the meantime, check out the archives, browse our site, there is plenty to read while we are away. We won’t be far anyway, we will post if there is any...

Grace Akallo comes back from the last place on earth

UNICEF published an awful, true story. The story of Grace Akallo who was abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army and forced to fight – to live.  She talks about her captivity and how education became her hope, her salvation – and her impetus to fight for peace. From the...

Stop Planting Mines In Nuba Mountains

A few days ago a Petition was launched on Avaaz.org asking to stop planting mines in Nuba Mountains: Please take action now to stop the Sudanese government from Planting mines in civilians areas in Nuba mountains. Thousands of students stopped going to schools because the mines has closed...

Free solar power in Peru, al-Bashir and Museveni, UN intervention brigade in Congo

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Peru and free solar power; Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni don't get along; Can the UN intervention brigade bring lasting peace and stability to the war-torn country, Congo? - Peru to...

No Menstrual Hygiene For Indian Women Holds Economy Back

Sometimes we tend to forget that even simple things like menstrual hygiene can still be an obstacle for women. Sushma Devi, a mother of three in Northern India, stores her “moon cup” on the window sill of the mud-brick veranda that shelters the family goats. We learn a lot about...

Protests after Tunisian opposition leader killed

Ben Ali may be gone (read our news published in April about Ben Ali son-in-law) but Tunisia is still in torment. Angry anti-government demonstrations broke out Thursday across Tunisia after gunmen killed the leader of a leftist opposition party, raising fears of new chaos on the difficult...

Activists want Sudan leader arrested, Climate change denial, South Sudan

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Activists want Sudan leader arrested; Is the Season for Climate Change Denial Finally Over?; South Sudan: Army Making Ethnic Conflict Worse. - Activists want Sudan leader arrested - July 15, 2013 - Is the Season for...

Mandela Day: Join us and donate 67 minutes of your day to doing something good

Mandela Day is a Sama Day on the MagkaSama Project: each year, we celebrate it. This year we want you to join us and Take Action; Inspire Change; Make Every Day a Mandela Day. As announced in our weekly Newsletter last Sunday, today we are going to organize with some members of the Sama...

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...