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We’re 100 blogs old!
This week marks the 100th post since we launched the developmenteducation.ie blog just over a year ago. Thanks to all
We need to talk about Kevin
This article is a response to Kevin Myers’ opinion piece on Friday, 5th October in The Irish Independent, titled: Why
Celebration or Realisation? Uganda at Fifty
In a new series by www.developmentEducation.ie, Jamie Hitchen explores daily life and politics from Kampala, Uganda. Today marks the fiftieth
Blood Wood
“Without forest we would have no access to clean water as the source of life …Forest is like the skin
Are Africa’s women on the rise?
This was the question question recently explored by Malawian women’s rights campaigner Jessie Kabwila for the BBC’s Africa Debate programme
What we’re reading: £500million UK aid spent on private sector contracts; Andrew Mitchell throws class-based wobbly; development jargon sucks; how much water do we eat; why study development?
Many of the larger chunks of UK aid spending are channelled through big multilateral organisations and British firms. Last year
What’s in a …Blog?
As someone who remembers what it means to ‘put pen to paper’, being asked to write for a blog at
The Story of Change: why citizens (not shoppers) hold the key to a better world
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change is a new short movie that urges viewers to put down
When aid is ‘debated’
Image: Plantu (France). See our cartoon library for more Mention ‘Africa’, the ‘Developing World’ or ‘Poverty’ and sure enough, it’s
Rings (of inequality) around the world
The honour bestowed in carrying the flame, kindled by eleven women using the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated