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All they want for Xmas is a Toilet of their own

IdaHorner — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Pin It Having access to a toilet is something that we in the West take for granted as Angela explained on WORLD TOILET DAY. The lack of access to sanitation including a toilet has implications for at least 2.6 Billion folk in the developing world Mark Tran explains in The Guardian, Sanitation related diseases such [...]

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Catching up Princess and Perfect

IdaHorner — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:00:42 +0000

Pin It I sometimes can’t quite believe my luck! Once or twice a year I get to visit Princess and Perfect at their school in SW Uganda. At the recent visit June 2011, I got a hug from Princess, Perfect is a little shy. Temperatures are normally very low in this part of Uganda especially [...]

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Let Them Help Themselves Out of Poverty

IdaHorner — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Pin It I took up Nikki’s 30 day blogging challenge . The task I am currently working on requires us to answer questions that people ask us the most about our work. I have mostly undertaken the tasks on my own blog ethnicsupplies.org but I decided to do this task twice both on this blog [...]

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Gaddafi- will the headmaster be rolling up his tent soon?

IdaHorner — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Back in January I had a rare opportunity of being part of a delegation that got to meet Gaddafi in his compound. The reason – Gaddafi had called a Historic conference to discuss African immigration into Europe. One of the questions he sought to answer was whether we the Africans in the diaspora are afforded [...]

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Uganda goes to polls#ugandavotes

IdaHorner — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:30:00 +0000

Campaigning has ended and word on the street is that the roads in Kampala are eerily quiet as Ugandans get ready to go the polls tomorrow 18/2/11. Over on Africa on the blog we have followed the campaign with interest. Grace one of our contributors has picked out two points for discussion during the campaigns. [...]

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Is Bark Cloth the most sustainable fabric?

IdaHorner — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Pin It Bark Cloth (Lubugo in Luganda- which is the language spoken by the tribe that produces this cloth) is a non woven fabric made from the bark of the MUTUBA (MITUBA- PLURAL) Tree (FICUS NATALENSINS) and is produced by the Baganda tribe in Uganda. It was widely used in dress making and was widely [...]

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Why Africans don’t get malaria

IdaHorner — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Pin It Image via Wikipedia Really and I mean really? Well someone certainly thinks so and I am not entirely sure why but I hope that reading my many blog posts on malaria disabused them of that fact. In case you are wondering what I going on about, let me explain. I am an avid [...]

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Doing Business in challenging environments

IdaHorner — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Pin It Last year I wrote about the implications of doing business in areas of conflict . I was pleased to see that in some places things have moved on when I attended a panel discussion in London last Thursday. The event was entitled Unlocking Africa’s potential through partnership- and the central question the panel had to address was, How can the [...]

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In search of clean water- Ruhanga SW Uganda

IdaHorner — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:00:00 +0000

Pin It Yes it is that time of the year again #BLOG ACTION DAY 2010 is here again and this year we are talking about water. Access to clean water is something that most of us in the west do not worry so much about since all we have to do is turn on tap, [...]

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I agree with Bono

IdaHorner — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:00:36 +0000

Last Friday September 10th I was sent a link to new story about Bono’s fashion label Edun having to move their business Out of Africa to Asia On the face of it this was alarming news since BONO is know for his debt relief campaigns to end poverty in Africa but on closer examination of [...]

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