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ABC Online
April 26, 2018
The African Children's Choir provides education for vulnerable children from some of Uganda's most impoverished areas. Since it began in 1984 it has offered hope and opportunity to more than 52,000 children. This year's graduates are touring Australia with the help of Kwaya, a Gold Coast based partner.
TheCable
April 21, 2018
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 59 million children in Africa are stunted while another 10 million are overweight. The UN health agency also warned that Africa's attempts to achieve health for all by 2030 could be threatened unless the continent addresses the twin challenges ofÃâà...
Devdiscourse
April 21, 2018
A 2016 study showed an estimated 59 million children in Africa were stunted, which is when a child is too short for their height: another condition caused by undernutrition.
The Zebra
April 20, 2018
Rotary International (RI) and District 7610 have awarded a $101,000 grant to the Rotary Clubs of West Springfield, Gainesville-Haymarket and Caroline County, Virginia and Bo, Sierra Leone to support three primary schools in remote villages in that extremely poor West African nation. The assistance to theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 12, 2018
The Golden Jubilee Collection of Ducere African Children's Stories was launched this morning at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Indian Culture in Phoenix in the presence of the Minister of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research, Mrs Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun, theÃâà...
Swindon Advertiser
April 11, 2018
A SWINDON charity that provides training and resources for communities in The Gambia has raised Ãâã500 to supply a school with a deaf unit. Empower The Gambia, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, is to establish sign language classes for deaf children at the Daru Lower Basic School inÃâà...
Decaturish.com
April 11, 2018
Later this month, the African Children's Choir will be performing in Tucker and Clarkston, Ga. On Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m., the choir will perform at Clarkston International Bible Church, located at 3895 Church Street in Clarkston. The following day, April 28, the choir will perform at the Clarkston Culture FestÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 2, 2018
According to the UN, one in every 160 children suffers from autism. With only 50 child psychiatrists in Africa for a population of a billion people, autism is rarely diagnosed and children with autism and their carers suffer in silence. The disorder is often seen as a curse treated by traditional healers in someÃâà...
Daily Echo
March 26, 2018
A HAMPSHIRE couple have just returned from Africa where they met the child they sponsor. Debbie Smart, 54, and her husband Neil, 56, the vicar of St Saviour's Church in Brockenhurst, sponsor a boy and girl from the Kigeme area of Rwanda. When they found out they would be travelling to the country toÃâà...
The Durango Herald
March 26, 2018
Mercy Ships volunteer nurse Daniel Bergman holds Yillah on Deck 7 of the Africa Mercy in Sierra Leone in 2011. Bergman, an operating room nurse in Durango, spent 2Ãâý years aboard the largest, private hospital ship in the world. He was on board with his wife and two teenage daughters. Courtesy ofÃâà...
Warren Tribune Chronicle
March 20, 2018
LEAVITTSBURG –Raising money to get schools built and materials provided to Ethiopian children was part of the goal of the annual children's fest held at LaBrae High School. The event was a fundraiser for River of Hope International, which is operated by Craig Klotzbach, a LaBrae science teacher, andÃâà...
WTVC
March 19, 2018
More than 500 handmade dolls sent to African children. by Jessica Harthorn. In 2016, Kim Clark Started Fishes and Loaves Barrel Ministry after she saw a heartbreaking photo on Facebook posted by the missionary in Africa her church supports. Now she sends dolls and other goods to the Philippines, Nicaragua andÃâà...
Quartz
March 11, 2018
A one-time gene mutation in a West African human millennia ago gave them immunity to malaria and doomed some of their descendants to sickle cell anaemia, according to new research. Today, about 300,000 children are born with sickle cell anaemia every year, with that number expected to rise toÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 10, 2018
By his own admission, former militia man Patrick Kidega spent half of his life as a plunderer – guarding his leader, stealing from locals and kidnapping children as his group rampaged across central Africa. But he himself was a stolen child, abducted at the age of 15 and forced to join one of Africa's mostÃâà...
Mainely Media
March 9, 2018
Members of the African Children's Choir, seen in this publicity shot taken in their homeland, will perform at the Messiah Christian Church, located at 2700 ... of western nations, raising awareness of the plight of Africa's most vulnerable, but also showing the beauty, dignity and potential of each African child.
Times LIVE
March 8, 2018
Vuyo Dabula spent several gruelling weeks in a small town near Aliwal North filming a South African Western he believes will give the African child a new superhero. The Generations: The Legacy actor plays the lead role in Five Fingers of Marseilles, a cowboy movie about an outlaw that returns home afterÃâà...
Dundalk Democrat
March 6, 2018
West African children with sight loss are benefitting from the kindness of a collaborative effort between the National Council for the Blind (NCBI) and a Dundalk charity. The NCBI is donating unused long canes to people in Ghana through a joint initiative with a Dundalk based aid development charity.
Biddeford Journal Tribune
March 6, 2018
African Children's Choir on East Coast tour to perform in Wells. By KAYSA JALBERT. Staff Writer. WELLS — The African Children's Choir that has performed before presidents and the Queen of England, sang alongside Paul McCartney, Mariah Carey, and other artists, has initiated in an East Coast tour thatÃâà...
Lewiston Sun Journal
March 6, 2018
Music for Life, the parent organization for the African Children's Choir, works in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. MFL has educated more than 52,000 children and impacted the lives of over 100,000 people through its relief and development programs during its history. MFL's purpose is to helpÃâà...
Recycling International
March 2, 2018
South Africa: Pharmaceutical firm Adcock Ingram Critical Care has joined forces with a group of local hospitals and waste management businesses to recycle medical waste in the Johannesburg area of South Africa. The end product? Shoes for underprivileged children.
Wicked Local
March 2, 2018
PLYMOUTH – The African Children's Choir will perform Sunday, March 4, during the 10 a.m. church service at New Testament Church, 1120 Long Pond Road, Plymouth. The performance scheduled there last week was canceled. The African Children's Choir melts the hearts of audiences with theirÃâà...
Conway Daily Sun
March 2, 2018
Music for Life (The parent organization for The African Children's Choir) works in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Africa. Music for Life has educated over 52,000 children and impacted the lives of over 100,000 people through its relief and development programs during its history. Music for Life purposeÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
March 1, 2018
Creativity and innovation are key ideas that children of Africana descent should be exposed to at an early age. Exposure to these concepts gives children the opportunity to develop the ability needed to survive and thrive in the world. If people of Africana descent are going to develop stronger communities,Ãâà...
East Coast Radio
February 28, 2018
According to Parent 24, a study on online usage by the World Economic Forum has yielded some scary results regarding children and cyber usage. These statistics place South Africa in the list of top 10 countries that are at risk, of the 29 countries that were surveyed. Read: 'Catfishing' and online extortionÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
February 26, 2018
NEW BEDFORD — After performing in the city Saturday night with the South Coast Children's Choir and the Sargent Carney Academy Select Chorus for the first time, the African Children's Choir did some sightseeing downtown. “I love its rich history, especially pertaining to the whaling industry,” saidÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
February 19, 2018
While on tour, far from home, the African Children's Choir has a custom to refer to all adults as “Auntie” or “Uncle,” as a sign of respect and appreciation for anyone who shows them kindness. “I like singing, and I enjoy dancing for people,” said Christine, 8, one of the children in the choir, in a recent interviewÃâà...
Good News Network
February 19, 2018
These children won't have to meet the devil at a crossroads to bring their musical spirits to life – instead, a young woman became their angel when she started serenading the African kids with her fiddle. WATCH: Airline Passenger Hilariously Busts a Move When Gate Agent Tells Him to Sing. According toÃâà...
The Patriot Ledger
February 16, 2018
The African Children's Choir will perform a free concert at The New Testament Church in Cedarvillle Feb. 23 and ticketed shows at Plymouth South High School Performing Arts Center March 2 and 3. PLYMOUTH – The African Children's Choir is coming to Plymouth later this month for three performances,Ãâà...
Vanguard
February 13, 2018
“The vision of advancing the fortunes of the average African child, has led the Foundation to extend it's magnanimity to other African countries, with the free education mandate,” Nwosu said. Continuing, the DG explained that the foundation had also set for itself, the target of taking one million children off theÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
President Uhuru Kenyatta Friday opened an international education conference in Nairobi ruing what he called the misfortune of millions of children in Africa missing out on school for different ... “We need to be clear what our aims might be: What does it mean to educate an African child in this century?
Hemel Gazette
December 31, 1999
A Hemel-based international children's charity has raised over ̣̉500,000 through its latest appeal. Thanks to the generosity of the UK public, and match funding from the government, Hope for Children will now be able to help thousands more vulnerable children get access to quality education in Africa.
SowetanLIVE Sunday World
December 31, 1999
Recently, TV Presenter and actress, Salamina Mosese, announced that she was celebrating her 20th anniversary in the industry. Mosese first popped on to our screens as a cast member in the first season of Soul Buddyz in 1998, a teen drama focusing on social issues including HIV/AIDS, disability,Ãâà...
Biddeford
December 31, 1999
Members of the African Children's Choir, seen in this publicity shot taken in their homeland, will perform at the Messiah Christian Church, located at 2700 ... of western nations, raising awareness of the plight of Africa's most vulnerable, but also showing the beauty, dignity and potential of each African child.
Study Breaks
December 31, 1999
Students x March 22, 2018. Sharaya Roberts Connects Children in Africa Through Soccer. Sharaya Roberts, soccer player from Northwest University, turns her passion for the sport into a community building tool for children in Africa.
WGBA-TV
December 31, 1999
APPLETON, Wis. - Christine Otto, the schools counselor, said "Each student got a journal that they could write ten different acts of kindness down and then turn it in, and we just kept track of the journals, and how many acts of kindness, and we ended up with over five thousand." That's five thousand acts ofÃâà...
Times Record
December 31, 1999
TOPSHAM Local residents were treated to a unique musical experience in Topsham over the weekend when the African Children's Choir performed Sunday at the United Baptist Church. A group of 18 children from Uganda — ages seven to 11 — visited the Topsham church to perform a free concert for theÃâà...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 31, 1999
YellowJackets tune up to sing for children in Africa. Caurie Putnam, Special to Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK Published 6:00 a.m. ET March 16, 2018. play. CLOSE. Robin Roberts, of Good Morning America is welcomed to Rochester during Meliora weekend. Oct. 14, 2017. Meghan Finnerty.
Face2Face Africa
December 31, 1999
Scores of actors and activists have over the years been raising concerns about diversity in Hollywood. But looking at the demographics of films being produced now, we may soon experience an improvement. Apart from the presence of some black youngsters who are already charming people with theirÃâà...
Design Week
December 31, 1999
The Kenyan start-up improving education for children in Africa. Discussed at this year's Design Indaba conference, Brck is a Kenya-based start-up that gives school kids in rural areas access to the internet and new learning materials. We speak to head of user experience design, Mark Kamau. By SarahÃâà...
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