We speak of July, 2009
CFA Centre John Paul II to Loreto (AGESCI)
CFA (Field Training Membership) AGESCI
Center John Paul II to Loreto
On June 4, JPII visited the center, making you stop, the 32 leaders from all Agesci Italy along with eight chiefs of staff as part of field training Agesci that is taking place these days in Matelica. They left this morning from Matelica headed to the Basilica of Loreto, all along the journey with Mary to Jesus objected to their "yes"! We thank them for choosing the Center as a step in the path that leads into the house of yes.
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More and more cubs
More and more cubs .
Scouts are 200 thousand in Italy and now also open to Islam
Erect a tent and surf the internet. Mending a pair of socks and become a patrol leader. On the way to new adventures and horizons to be discovered, 'diversity' to be appreciated, cavandosela alone. Why 'you learn by doing' and 'good citizens', but 'world citizens' engaged in the life of their country in the name of 'brotherhood of the peoples', it becomes.
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Green Schooner 2009
The years pass but the enthusiasm is always the same: for the twenty-fourth year running Green Schooner part to protect our water from pollution attacks.
Keep an eye on water quality, promote sustainability, pointing the finger at the most critical situations for the health of the sea is the mission of the vessel environmentalist who did not escape, in the course of its 23 stops, illegal dumping, inadequate systems of sewage, illegal construction and poor management of the coast. Almost 2000 miles of sailing to value the immense landscape and biodiversity that distinguishes the coasts of our country, to promote a culture of sustainability and development of tourism in harmony with the characteristics of the territory .
More information here: www.legambiente.eu
The only raw materials that Africa is not seen as valuable is the man
The only material the first African
which is not considered valuable is the man
FAO's latest report paints a worsening of conditions of life in developing countries and in those with low and very low level of development . One billion people, one sixth of humanity, not eating enough: 100 million more than in 2008.
The most critical situation in absolute terms is that of Asia: about one-sixth of the population is undernourished, 642 million people out of a total of just over four billion. In relative terms, however, the continent remains poor and hungry in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa where hunger is the daily reality for one third of the population: 265 million people of well 788.
The cause is partly attributed to the global crisis in many states has interrupted a trend of positive economic growth.
As regards Africa, in 2009 the GDP will grow by only 2.8%, for the first time less of the population and that after five years of average growth above 5%, with peaks higher than 10% in Angola and other oil-producing states.
The main negative factors attributable to the international economic crisis is the decline in the price of many commodities in international markets, the loss of revenue resulting from the reduction in remittances and foreign investments despite the greater interest shown by the mainland China, India and other Asian states.
But it was certainly not the international crisis in the starvation of more than one third of the people of Zimbabwe and Somalia in the last year, but a delusional government policy that has literally destroyed the national economy in the first case, and a long war 18 years ago, in the second. To explain what is happening is the internal causes of the weakness of African economies that it should look. The origin of poverty and increased fragility of African economies, we are first of all factors of all time: corruption, mismanagement, conflicts over the state apparatus, armed anti-government movements, all of which prevent even in good years to transform the GDP growth into human development, namely in better general living conditions.
As in Somalia and Zimbabwe, as in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Equatorial gripping poverty populations that should benefit from the proceeds of valuable raw materials and that of most have an extraordinary human capital given by a percentage of more than 50%.
The important data, in other words, there is an increase of hungry people in Africa in conjunction with a world crisis, but the persistence of hunger, malnutrition, extremely high rates of infant and maternal mortality, constant percentage of sick and dead AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases easily treated elsewhere or disappeared, while at international level occurred between the conditions most favorable to the continent until 2008, more foreign investment, foreign debt relief, international aid astronomical prices on the rise commodities, from oil that reached almost $ 150 a barrel.
FAO's latest report paints a worsening of living conditions in developing countries and in those with low and very low level of development. One billion people, one sixth of humanity, not eating enough: 100 million more than in 2008. The most critical situation in absolute terms is that of Asia: about one-sixth of the population is undernourished, 642 million people out of a total of just over four billion. In relative terms, however, the continent remains poor and hungry in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa where hunger is the daily reality for one third of the population: 265 million people of well 788.
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