Results List
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Eastern Cape Schools Solidarity Visit
Source: Equal Education
From 23-26 April 2013 Archbishop Thabo Makgoba lead a delegation of eminent South Africans on an Eastern Cape Schools Solidarity Visit organised by Equal Education. The delegates were able to witness the extent of the infrastructure crisis and draw attention to the dire need for infrastructure…
Resource type: Video
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Shaping History Through Support for Health and Human Rights
Nokhwezi Hoboyi. Photo: Samantha Reinders, TAC After losing two children to AIDS, Nokhwezi Hoboyi stopped her treatment and landed in a South African hospice with tuberculosis. “A nurse told me there was life after testing positive for HIV,” Ms. Hoboyi said. Most importantly, she met…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Defending Democracy and Delivering on the Constitution
Equal Education student members march for better school infrastructure. Photo: Equal Education Throngs of students protested outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town on a sunny afternoon in February 2011. Wearing green T-shirts and carrying handscrawled signs, they set up an outdoor classroom complete…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Esther’s Story: Walking Again Thanks to Adult Day Services
“The first day I went to the centre, I was scared, I was in a wheelchair, and I was paralysed on the left side. Everybody was so friendly. My arm was frozen to my side, and now I can move it and I can open…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Democracy and Confinement
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, accepted the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service at the commencement ceremony at Bard College, Eastern Correctional Facility. He spoke to graduates about the linked issues of democracy and confinement. No public honour has meant…
Resource type: Speech
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Developing One of the Major Bioscience Research Centres in the World
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer // The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center has ranked among the U.S.’s top 10 hospitals (according to U.S. News & World Report, 2012-13) for more than 10 years. Adding to its worldwide reputation in cardiovascular…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Musina Legal Advice Office
The United Reform Church in Musina, South Africa, has provided a safe haven for refugees coming into the country from Zimbabwe. Most of the women refugees there were either tortured by Zimbabwean security forces or raped while crossing the border, and the church provided them…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
Direct-care workers ensure quality elder care and disability services for millions of Americans, yet often do not have their own health coverage. The Health Care for Health Care Workers (HCHCW) campaign is addressing this challenge. HCHCW raises awareness of the lack of coverage and its…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Biomedical Advances in Australia
Since 1998, Founding Chairman grants totalling A$233 million ($212 million) have transformed biomedical research in Queensland, Australia. When current building projects are completed, we will have helped to build or expand 12 research institutions. Coupled with government and university investments of A$900 million ($819 million), the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Tackling Rural Poverty Among Older Adults
People who live in rural poverty often remain invisible to society, obscured physically by beautiful scenery and statistically by their wide geographic dispersion. This is particularly true for older people who live in rural poverty.Nearly one-third of the rural elderly in Northern Ireland exist on…
Resource type: Grantee Story