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The Drum Cafe 2010 Peace Festival will be a seven-day celebration presented by and for the various Kenyan ethnic subgroups and communities living in Nairobi. It will include performances, presentations, workshops, displays and demonstrations of music, theater, dance, storytelling, food, films, traditional medicines, and crafts at various venues in Dandora, Kibera, Kawangware (slum areas which all experienced violence following Kenya's 2008 elections).

The World Summit on Media for Children and Youth Karlstad Sweden 2010 will be a summit for 2000 delegates from 100 countries preparing with children and youth for a new media world in the 21st century. It will offer you great opportunities to network, to be part of debates, to be interactive and to be part of workshops to share your perspective, experience and expertise. World Summit in Karlstad will be the most important meeting place in 2010.

This energizing summit will bring together a diverse community of Oxfam supporters, academics, advocates, researchers, policy-makers, and activists from around the world to discuss poverty and development as it relates to women.

It is a unique opportunity to strengthen connections while collaborating on approaches to advancing women's rights, women's empowerment, and gender equality. The themes of the summit will include gender based violence, maternal health, poverty, security, climate change, food security and more.

Full Title: Informal Interactive Hearings of the General Assembly with Non-governmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector

June 14-15, 2010
UN Headquarters in New York

Absa prides itself in being at the forefront of understanding and appreciating the role women play in the rich fabric of South African life. For this reason we constantly strive to ensure that they take their rightful place in the challenging business world. In celebration, Absa and Shoprite, have put together a series of Women Who Lead presentations and discussion sessions with some of South Africa’s most influential female leaders.

HSRC Press cordially invites to you the launch of the recently published book, The Struggle over Land in Africa: Conflicts, Politics & Change edited by Ward Anseeuw & Chris Alden.

Date: Tuesday 20 April 2010

Time: 4pm- 6pm

A series of these workshops will be held during the AfricaGIS conference. Even those not attending the AfricaGIS conference can attend the Google Earth event. You can register for the Google Earth workshop without having registered for AfricaGIS. Registration is free but required.

Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth and Maps to the hundreds of millions of people who use them. According to Google Earth:

The Community Building Workshop

This workshop is about the nature of real transformation and what kind of leadership is required to achieve it.Transformation is a shift in the nature of things. It promises a culture of chosen accountability,authentic commitment, and stronger social fabric, all elements of a strong community. Peter will define how communal transformation is about leadership that is independent of style, role modeling and holding people accountable.

Learning Objectives

Siyakhula Trust is a NGO whose mission is to assist community leaders, CBOs, NPOs and projects to the benefit of the communities they serve. Siyakhula Trust is conducting Community Facilitation Programme in Bloemfontein.

The purpose of this programme is to enable managers and officers working in NPOs, CBOs, government departments and national agencies who work with communities and projects, to effectively participate in initiating, supporting and managing those projects to ensure a successful outcome.