http://www.geo-pod.org Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:38:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Imagine your community needed a new health centre, business start up workshops or even a school. Donated equipment could be found and local people were available to work there. However, the missing element is the building. A lack of local raw materials makes it expensive to build and your ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2009/03/09/thinking-outside-the-box/ A baby-girl dumped in a maize garden at Mvera in Dowa district last month has found a home courtesy of a Lumbadzi couple, Charlie and Hallima Daudi. The family has since offered to adopt the baby and has already named her Shanilla Sarah. Dowa District Hospital matron Rosemary Bilesi told The ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2009/02/12/miracle-baby-finds-%e2%80%98samaritan%e2%80%99-mother/ The Children's Home of Hope is featured in a video made by Elvis and is featured on the You Tube channel of the Community Media Hub. Community Media Hub You Tube http://www.geo-pod.org/2009/01/24/home-of-hope-video-on-you-tube/ The Free-School Orphanage Programme is divided into three phases. The first one consists of building the orphanage and related facilities (including dometries, class rooms, office, kitchen, community room). The second phase of the project consists of offering free school and feeding to HIV orphans and other orphans and vulnerable children of ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2009/01/21/free-school-orphange-programme/ The plight of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) is one that needs attention of all. Lack of basic living facilities like shelter and clothing and balanced diet for a child can contribute significantly to disorders in a child’s development. Children whose love and belonging needs are replaced with feeling of hatred, rejection ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2009/01/21/orphans-vulnerable-children/ Geo-POD is pleased to announce that the pilot site for a complete Geo-POD facility will be in Ghana. Elvis Morris Donkoh, Executive Director of the Alliance for Youth Development, a NGO registered in Ghana said "I'm very happy to be working in partnership with Geo-POD and being able to provide ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2009/01/20/geo-pod-pilot-site-is-ghana/ Thanks to the copper boom, Zambia’s economy last year had per capita around 4 percent. The Capital is busy with new construction, and traffic between here and the copper belt is so heavy, travel time has doubled to eight hours. Still, Zambia is diverging from the rest of mankind. Its tax ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2008/12/02/aiding-the-%e2%80%98bottom-billion%e2%80%99/ Image of Panel structure with partial covering of bricks. http://www.geo-pod.org/2008/11/02/image-partial-brick-covering/ The generation who expected to make a difference and gave a resounding vote to act on our behalf to its politicians has been left with the feeling of an opportunity lost. How will history remember this generation? Its likely to be the “War on Terror” and “Global warming”. We have the ability ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2008/11/01/winding-up-the-rubber-band/ An historic gathering with representatives from more than 140 countries meeting alongside private sector, faith and civil society leaders at the United Nations took place last Thursday to accelerate progress on the Millennium Development Goals and announce over $16 billion of new commitments. Hosted by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and ... http://www.geo-pod.org/2008/10/02/major-un-mdg-meeting/