Nov 14, 2011

After launching indabaXchange, our social network project, Indaba-Network is now taking another step: crowd funding. The mission of Indaba-Network is to support youth groups engaged in projects for social change. To do this, we provide advice, resource materials, and technical assistance. But young people also need funding for their projects. The provision of...

Nov 6, 2011

Everyone knows the Grameen Bank founded by Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in developing micro-credit in poor countries. But have you ever heard of the BRAC, founded by another citizen of Bangladesh, Fazle Hasan Abed?  Mr. Abed has just received the first WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) prize for...

Sep 12, 2011

On July 22, 2011, in Norway, an unbalanced man, infected by the ideas of the extreme right, murdered 77 people, including 69 young members of Norway’s Labour Party who were gathered for their summer school on the island of Utoya. Seventy-seven victims out of a population of 4,800,000 inhabitants is a proportion that would be equivalent to a massacre of more...

Sep 4, 2011

The website “Women’s Views on News (http://www.womensviewsonnews.org) has just published the following news: The Boy Scouts of America has removed lesbian mother, Denise Steele, as a scout master of her son’s troop after becoming aware of her sexual orientation. The organisation prohibit atheists, agnostics, and “avowed” homosexual people from...

Aug 14, 2011

The purpose of Indaba-Network is to encourage groups of young (or young at heart) to develop projects of social change in seven fields of action corresponding to the major challenges of the modern world: travel and intercultural encounters (Horizons), Environment and Sustainable Development (Earth), expression and culture (Culture), education and personal...

Apr 24, 2011

In his last book, “La Voie. Pour l’avenir de l’humanité” (The Way. For the future of Humanity, January 2011), Edgar Morin, a renowned French sociologist who defines himself as “a transdisciplinary and indisciplined thinker”, stresses the fragility of democracy and the tremendous, lifelong, constant and possibly intergenerational effort...