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I am a dreamer, a listener and a do-er. I love working with passionate, creative, curious people who are not afraid to fail. I believe that by strengthening global education we strengthen ourselves and nourish our future. A huge part of this process involves teaching children empathy, leadership and teamwork and allowing them to explore their creativity and expand their imaginations. Believe that anything is possible.
After spending a year in Zambia launching my non-profit, KnowledgeBeat (www.knowledgebeat.org), I returned to Washington DC and started working with Ashoka's Changemakers Team. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with this innovative group of thinkers who spend each day inspiring, collaborating and changing our world for the better...
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Thanks Sarah, I adore how you dream, listen and act on the seeds in your palms. May Better World Cameroon just become one of your seeds? So I don't need belabour that point.I'm so glad to find some one dealing with the critical issues facing our mother earth. GMOs, teaching children and awakening consciences on environmental degradation and especially what GMOs mean for the future are the isuues we are strugling to acess information and propagate on a daily basis. Would you like to connect with Better World Cameroon? www.betterworld-cameroon.com have a look at our newsletter? The Competition is very challenging from an African perspective, but I am thrilled by it. I will think up ideas with my team and submit an entry. Thank you for sending it. I hope we'll stay connected in the struggle for global education. Joshua Konkankoh, National Coordinator, Better World Cameroon.
What do you think about this?
CAMEROON ONE WORLD LINKING ASSOCIATION
International Solidarity it is generally believed is a social need, educational potential and an impulse to culture. In short it is an indispensable element of the development process. This may sound hyperbolic but if we consider what a world we would be living in if there were no means of collaboration between peoples and communities, we would see for ourselves the rationale in paying adequate attention to international solidarity infrastructures. The importance attached to international partnerships was seen and felt in Better World Cameroon (BWC) in2005 when its National coordinator, Joshua Konkankoh visited Community Garden Projects in the UK to share his grassroots concept of sustainable development and enter Social Enterprise networking in the United Kingdom. Since then he and BWC have been doing research and gathering facts on aspects of international solidarity that could lead to a more humane world-A BETTER WORLD! What has been achieved in a very short space of time ought to testify to Cameroonians and the rest of the world that the length of time devoted to studies, planning and researching on this topic (1996-2006) is not wasted. The Organizational Development Plan underway by VSO to consolidate the setting up of Cameroon One World Linking Association (COWLA) is ample proof of this. Now that BWC’s international solidarity platform ‘The world is one-Let’s make it Better’ who is to be responsible for what it will become? The answer to this question is apparently simple but, if we consider the implication of international communication and effective partnerships, we would also see that what this new concept of Sustainable Development in African means to the world will not depend only on its initiators but also the international community which constitutes the source of information and feed back pool. The expedience in this stem from the fact that in the information technological world, what matters is not only the availability of reliable physical infrastructure, but also the goodwill of professionals who will volunteer to back up Africa so that our incentives are not simply left on the sidelines of globalization. VISIONINACTION |
I received your message about the Ashoka GMO competition.
I have been aware of the Foundation since a partner in our group, World Family, was offered the opportunity of becoming a fellow, and is now waiting for the outcome.
I have, however, a deep concern about organisations backed by big business. In our field, which is Food Sovereignty and related matters, it is big business that is doing harm. On GMOs there is no question in our minds, and all the research independent of the Agroindustry bears it out, that they are nothing more than a cold money-making initiative by the huge TNCs like Cargill, Monsanto etc. One partner in our organisation is currently trying to mount a large media event in Africa to tell the truth about the land-grabs for Biofuels, inextricably tied in with GMOs.
The solution is simple but difficult to achieve, for it will require international accords. One of the most central of these accords is to ban the patenting of life, to ban Intellectual Property Rights (IPs) on biological matter.
Ashoka, in my understanding, is backed by one of the world's largest merchant banks, and now, paradoxically, I see that Exxon Mobil have joined in.
What are genuine change-makers to make of a foundation that gets into bed with a huge Petrochemical company, with huge customers who make petrochemical fertilisers and pesticides?
I am deeply concerned that neither on Google nor Wikepaedia, nor here can I find a single person frankly questioning this organisation.