How Jerome learned to read
Children are more than the deficits and disorders on which we put more and more emphasis. Children have a unique talent and a natural born desire to learn. There are ways to stimulate those. This is how Jerome learned to read. Dawna Markova | April 2004 issue Jerome was a six feet tall, bitterseet Read More...
Kuyichi: Max Havelaar in jeans
Marco Visscher | April 2004 issue The Dutch development organisation Solidarity had earlier pioneered the ‘fair price’ for coffee beans and the shift to organic cultivation. A few years ago it was time for a new project: clothing. Solidaridad launched Kuyichi, a clothing brand whose products Read More...
No sweat
Marco Visscher | April 2004 issue “Sweatshop” is the common term for workshops which pay low wages for the monotonous work of sewing ready-to-wear clothing, often for many hours each day and under strict supervision. These factories flourish in developing countries like India, Vietnam, Mexico Read More...
Love politics
The Alliance of the New Humanity: A remarkable peace initiative. Jurriaan Kamp| March 2004 issue Inside the gigantic hotel and conference centre of a Puerto Rican resort, you only catch a glimpse of the gateway to peace after you’ve passed several stands promoting pills and powders.The gateway to Read More...
Music in the favela
Nanko van Buuren has become an 'uncle' to the underprivileged in RioEva Bomans | March 2004 issue Pot-holes, sand and stones. Most of the streets in Vigário Geral are simply dirt tracks. Although there are very few cars to be seen, there are plenty of people: 7,500 packed into an area of three Read More...
What belongs to no one, belongs to everyone
Citizens: shareholders in our common wealth Anke Welten | March 2004 issue Each year every resident of Alaska looks forward to receiving a cheque for a hefty sum from the government. The money is not some kind of compensation for living in an extreme climate. Rather it represents a share of the Read More...
All we did in Tuzla was remain normal
During the bloody war in Bosnia one city kept its head: Tuzla. Luke Disney visited this 'role model for postwar developments' and discovered the will of a people who wish to get on with their lives and put the past behind them.Luke Disney | March 2004 issue A few days before my trip to Tuzla I had Read More...
Free Africa
Foreign aid and debts have shifted attention from the native population to donors and banksMarco Visscher | January 2004 issue ‘The talk of aid is a lot of hot air. Aid has never developed a single African country to the stage of social transformation.’ Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni tells Read More...
The death of a democracy
A stunning documentary reveals how the 2000 American presidential election was stolen.Luke Disney | January 2004 issue ‘It can’t be true!’ was the incredulous reaction that stayed with me throughout ‘Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election’, a documentary from Richard Ray Pérez and Read More...
Zilu's bold step to self-reliance
Decades of development work has made Bangladesh the world's begging bowl; a land of desperation and dependence with no future. But even in the face of such misery one person can make a difference; without help from the outside. A new dream and a new vision are bringing new life to the North of Read More...