Tag: Congo

Last year, Sama Reader N’Gaye sent us an email about an organization raising awareness about Congo we decided to mention in: RAISE Hope for Congo: Activism you can wear. A few months ago, it’s Sama Reader Lissa who commented on Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough? about the great work this organization was doing. She has been following the organization news and events since then and this weekend Lissa sent us an email about a  ...

Last week, it was on Friday to be precise, we could read some interesting information from Women for Women International and Women for Women UK. Women for Women International presented their partnership with Kate Spade New York, and Women for Women UK updated its brand new twitter background, introducing a new collection of t-shirts to buy. Let’s see what it is all about! About Kate Spade New York (read more here and shop products made by women ...

  Dear Sama-Readers, we are pleased to present our Twitter Sunday Rendezvous! Today we decided to share with you our Favorites Tweets @UNICEF. The organization has been very active to help people in Haiti after the earthquake (Read our post about Haiti:Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation… Education? and Haiti: International aid mobilization on the way). But UNICEF also provides support in many countries: Senegal, Somalia, West Bengal, Syria, ...

This time of the year is celebrated almost by everyone, whether you have faith or not. Whether you are into a religion or not. We also think this time of the year is more about giving than receiving. Share. Listen. Give a hand. Help. Of course we don’t pretend we are the perfect ones, on the contrary. But we can give, even if not much. Below, a list of gifts and organizations for your consideration, if you want to give, of course… Let’s ...

  This week we commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and we posted an article about the Every Human Has Rights Campaign. You were many to send comments about Human Rights, the campain… So for this new Twitter Sunday rendezvous, we decided to share with you our favorites tweets from The Elders. If you don’t know yet who are The Elders: ‘The Elders are an independent group of eminent global ...

A month ago, we posted an article titled: The (new) blood diamonds: it ain’t a movie… and we received many emails about it. The situation in Congo is dangerous and we think it’s important to raise awareness about it. John Prendergast is co-founder of the project Enough at the Center for American Progress, and his article: The new blood diamonds was published on the Boston Globe. It was a month ago and we are still talking about the situation ...

Just before the week-end, and after 10 days the Sama Gazette has been online, we thought it was time to talk about serious things. We know an expert in serious topics (initials are M and D, ring a bell?) so the bar is set high. This is also our first post in the Raison d’être category and we want to talk about an article we read just a few days ago on the Boston Globe: The new blood diamonds by John Prendergast. He is co-founder of the project ...