UNESCO to launch Netaid website September 8
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Support for civic education radio programmes in Somalia, help to restore a school in the old city of Tunis, an Internet Community Radio project in a rural area of Sri Lanka and setting up a mobile youth training unit in a Haitian shanty town are among the many concrete projects that will be just a mouse click away, as of September 8 at the new UNESCO Netaid website.

The site aims at improved information gathering on needs and experiences, as well as fund-raising for micro-projects, in the fight against poverty. It will be launched on September 8 at the same time as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launches its own Netaid site. The UNDP has set up the Netaid anti-poverty project in partnership with Cisco Systems. A concert on October 9 - broadcast simultaneously in London, Geneva and New York - will mark the first stage of this huge project, which combines humanitarian effort and new technology.

Netaid is part of the Decade for the eradication of poverty (1997-2006) and aims at promoting jobs, social integration, equality between men and women, and stabilisation of political institutions in developing countries.

 

 

 


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