World Challenge 09 is a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. World Challenge 09 is brought to you by BBC World News and Newsweek, in association with Shell, and is about championing and rewarding projects and business which really make a difference.
Burns caused by Hand Made Unsafe Kerosene Lamps are a common poblem in parts of Sri Lanka, where 1/3 of the population has no access to Electricity.
Safe Bottle Lamp Project in Comming!
One man’s mission to stop the horrific, and totally avoidable, injuries caused by unsafe kerosene lamps in Sri Lanka.
“If I win the World Challenge I can make and distribute 40,000 of these lamps, protecting over 80,000 people from these horrific burn injuries” Dr Wijaya Godakumbura, Safe Bottle Lamp Project
Despite an electrification programme, over 6 million people in Sri Lanka, nearly one third of the population, don’t have power. Many families rely on improvised lamps made from bottles to light their homes at night, but these can often spill and cause horrific injuries – figures suggest 300,000 people around the world die from accidental kerosene burns every year. Dr Wijaya Godakumbura, a surgeon who witnessed the terrible results of these accidents has designed a safe Lamp that can't roll over and cause a fire.To date, his small foundation has handed out about 775 thousand of the safe lamps.
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Sunday 6 December 2009
Copenhague 2009
The Climate change is already having dramatic consequences. The first victims are and will in future Populations already the most Vulnerable and Poorest Countries: Humanitarian Crisis, Mass, Violations of Human Rights are likely to multiply in the near Future. Therefore, a Unique Coalition of Organizations of French international solidarity, protection of the environment and human rights appeals to French President, in light of the Copenhagen Summit.
On J-1, Denmark will host the next International Summit on UN Climate. The International Community must develop a Comprehensive Agreement that will follow the Kyoto Protocol. To Participate in the Challenge, Put your E-Mail, 1 Million Signatures are Needed!
Friday 28 August 2009
Ramadan and Weight Loss
The virtues of fasting has spiritual, physical and psychological obvious, relieved the researcher and university Zafar Nomani, in an article published Saturday 22 by The Washington Post, in its electronic edition.
"What I discovered, along with other researchers, is that fasting has obvious benefits, both in spiritual and physical, psychological and social," said Zafar Nomani, Professor Emeritus of Nutrition University of West Virginia, and winner of the "Prix Hassan II" rewards the best scientific research and medical on Ramadan.
Professor Nomani, who has received this award at the First International Congress on "Health and Ramadan", held in Casablanca in 1994, explains that fasting during Ramadan "looks like, somehow, to a permanent annual educational workshop on how to become a better citizen of the world ".
Fasting, says he acts as a regulator which reminds us of the problems of poverty, drinking water resources in the world and encourages us to avoid overconsumption and waste of food.
Because "after all, too much food ends up being thrown in the garbage bags," laments this university who has conducted research on the nutritional consequences of the behavior during the fasting period on the organization of several volunteers in the United States and Pakistan.
"No eating, drinking and undesirable behavior makes the person more morally disciplined and less prone to unhealthy behavior," says he, noting that researchers in Jordan found a significant decrease in cases of para - suicide (suicide attempt will not die) during the month of Ramadan.
In Great Britain, fasting has been used by several health centers to reduce smoking rates, especially among people of African and Asian origin. Professor Nomani said however that there are choices for which one can opt for the practice of fasting is done more safely.
Scientific studies show that there are people who eat too much during Ramadan, which is a phenomenon that contradicts the essence of this holy month, sorry there, adding that studies show that health problems can result of an on-diet or a diet unbalanced.
"The human body has regulatory mechanisms that are activated during fasting, and therefore we do not need to overeat to provide our body the nutrients it needs," he says, noting that studies Scientists have shown that our body draws on stored reserves of fat to function normally during the period of fasting.
He added that other studies have shown that the basal metabolism of the person who fasts during Ramadan decline, concluding that one can be active and healthy during this period while having a diet less rich than usual but balanced in terms of nutrients.
"What I discovered, along with other researchers, is that fasting has obvious benefits, both in spiritual and physical, psychological and social," said Zafar Nomani, Professor Emeritus of Nutrition University of West Virginia, and winner of the "Prix Hassan II" rewards the best scientific research and medical on Ramadan.
Professor Nomani, who has received this award at the First International Congress on "Health and Ramadan", held in Casablanca in 1994, explains that fasting during Ramadan "looks like, somehow, to a permanent annual educational workshop on how to become a better citizen of the world ".
Fasting, says he acts as a regulator which reminds us of the problems of poverty, drinking water resources in the world and encourages us to avoid overconsumption and waste of food.
Because "after all, too much food ends up being thrown in the garbage bags," laments this university who has conducted research on the nutritional consequences of the behavior during the fasting period on the organization of several volunteers in the United States and Pakistan.
"No eating, drinking and undesirable behavior makes the person more morally disciplined and less prone to unhealthy behavior," says he, noting that researchers in Jordan found a significant decrease in cases of para - suicide (suicide attempt will not die) during the month of Ramadan.
In Great Britain, fasting has been used by several health centers to reduce smoking rates, especially among people of African and Asian origin. Professor Nomani said however that there are choices for which one can opt for the practice of fasting is done more safely.
Scientific studies show that there are people who eat too much during Ramadan, which is a phenomenon that contradicts the essence of this holy month, sorry there, adding that studies show that health problems can result of an on-diet or a diet unbalanced.
"The human body has regulatory mechanisms that are activated during fasting, and therefore we do not need to overeat to provide our body the nutrients it needs," he says, noting that studies Scientists have shown that our body draws on stored reserves of fat to function normally during the period of fasting.
He added that other studies have shown that the basal metabolism of the person who fasts during Ramadan decline, concluding that one can be active and healthy during this period while having a diet less rich than usual but balanced in terms of nutrients.
Friday 26 June 2009
Good Bye Micheal
"The death of Michael Jackson was found by doctors yesterday's afternoon after its arrival at the hospital in a deep coma," writes the leading newspaper of the second city of the United States, quoting "sources in the municipality and law enforcement. "
According to TMZ.com, who had previously announced the death of Jackson without giving a source, "the king of pop" has been the victim of a heart attack shortly after 12:00 pm (19H00 GTM) and the emergency services failed to revive.
The Los Angeles Times for its part indicated that firefighters had responded to a call from the singer's home in West Los Angeles, around 12:26 (19h26 GTM). The singer stopped breathing when they arrived, said the newspaper, which said he was revived and transported to the hospital capital of Ronald Reagan UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles).
The announcement of the death has not been confirmed in the immediate source nor hospital nor its agent, E. Tohme Tohme.
Emergency access to hospital capital were blocked Thursday afternoon by the police, and some fifty journalists had come on site were kept at a distance.
The news of the death of "king of pop" comes as the singer hoped to make his comeback on stage in London this summer with a series of concerts.
After having virtually disappeared since his acquittal in 2005 in a trial where he was accused of sexually touching a young person, the singer was briefly reappeared in March to announce a fifty concerts.
During a brief and disjointed to the press and thousands of fans, Michael Jackson, arrived late for over an hour and a half on the schedule, had indicated he would be his "last performances in London ".
But in late May, organizers announced the launch of the concert series had been postponed a few days in July, ensuring however that this had "nothing to do with the health of the star.
With a voice recognizable perched above all, out of the dancer, the artist was already recognized when he was 10 years before moving gradually to the status of star level.
But since the 1980s, the enigmatic Jackson shows signs of physical and behavioral strange and beyond the musical phenomenon becomes a phenomenon at all.
In 1993, its image of gentle eccentric fly apart with the complaint of a 13-year accused him of touching. The case settled out of court against 23.3 million dollars, a sum which does little but a fortune estimated at 600 million.
Her fortune had been melted, forcing the singer in 2006 to restructure a debt sum of $ 170 million, according to the American press, giving Sony a call option on half of its prestigious music catalog.
Small victory in a sea of financial woes, he had recently obtained the cancellation of a sale of personal items that had to be organized by the house of Julien's auction in California.
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Happy Eid Al Moulid From My Hearth
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On this Occasion of The Prophet Mohammed Anniversary, falls this year on Wednesday, 10March 2009, I present my best wishes for a Happy Eid Al Moulid full of Joys, Peace, Happiness and Prosperity.
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