Question: Where can you find chickens, dogs, fish, cats, turkeys, jellyfish, and coyotes all in one place?

Answer: Feathers Fins and Fur

This website contains a plethora of information about many different animals. (That list contains the animals from only 3 months of articles!) You can learn a few animal facts, educate yourself on the animal adoption process, or just read a heartwarming or funny story about animals when you visit this site. Immerse yourself in the world of animals by visiting Feathers Fins and Fur.

The 1010 Project provides income generating grants to indigenous development partners in Kenya and raises awareness in the United States on behalf of the global poor.

Through our partner organizations, we are actively supporting:

• 4,000 young students with a meal and an education
• 1,400 orphaned children with a loving and caring home environment
• 102 young girls at risk because of their involvement in the commercial sex trade are given a chance to earn income in a dignified and healthy way
• 500 small businesses with critical financial services so that they can continue and expand their life’s work
• 425 individuals living with HIV/AIDS by providing home based care and assistance along with vocational training

We’re launching a fundraising campaign!

Invest $10 per month and make a declaration that you have joined the story to break the cycle of poverty.

What exactly can $10 per month do for our friends and partners in Kenya?
$10 provides three hens and a half sack of fresh maize corn for a member of LOMORO
$10 will buy one carton of 100 tree seedlings for the orphanage at Siritanyi
$10 purchases 10 kilograms of cooking oil for 10 members of Tumaini Pamoja

The 14th Annual Susan G. Komen Southern Nevada Race for the Cure® will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2009 in historic downtown Las Vegas. This event, held yearly on the first Saturday in May, is a true community event, bringing over 18,000 registered participants in 2008. With an estimated crowd size of 25,000, the spirit of breast cancer survivorship and co-survivorship was evident everywhere you turned. Every thirteen minutes, a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. Every thirteen minutes, a woman in the United States dies of breast cancer. Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been committed to changing these two statistics for over twenty-five years. Locally, the Southern Nevada Affiliate has been working for the past thirteen years to raise funds as well as spread awareness and education throughout our community by collaborating with programs which provide screening, treatment and support to those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

We welcome you to join us this year as we celebrate survivors, remember those we have lost too soon, and truly take a step towards a world without breast cancer.

For more information, please log onto www.komensouthernnevada.org or call 702.822.2324.

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Gambia: New Unesco Education Project

Basic Education on Africa Programme (BEAP) a newly established project for Africa has now arrived in The Gambia, with UNESCO taking the lead in the implementation of the project. The Gambia, Rwanda and Ethiopia are choosen as pilot countries of the project.

The project (BEAP) has identified three areas of immediate attention, namely; Education, Curriculum Policy and Framework, Entrepreneurship Education and Competencies and Skills Development.

It was to this effect that UNESCO, together with The Gambia National Commission for UNESCO, organised a stakeholders conference at the Jerma Beach Hotel from 22nd – 23rd April, 2008, in order to define The Gambia’s framework under the Basic Education in Africa programme.

In her welcoming remarks, Sukai Bojang, Secretary General of The Gambia National Commission (NATCOM) said it is pleasing to know that The Gambia is the first pilot country for the Basic Education Africa Programme (BEAP)

LM, Rice launch LANCER research project

HOUSTON, April 25 (UPI) — U.S. company Lockheed Martin and Rice University are joining forces to produce new security technologies.

The new partnership, which was announced Wednesday, will also pursue the development of innovative technologies in electronics and energy, Lockheed Martin said in a statement.

Lockheed Martin and Rice said they were launching what they called “an innovative, strategic partnership to develop new technologies for a broad range of applications in electronics, energy and security.

Civic groups launch signature campaign opposing waterway project

Civic groups nationwide on Thursday launched a campaign aimed at collecting ten million signatures opposing a controversial cross-country canal project.

The pan-South Korea waterway project proposed by President Lee Myung-bak remains hotly contested, with scholars and experts questioning its cost-efficiency and raising concerns over associated environmental risks.

President Lee, who has been in office since February, pledged during the election that he will push for the building of a cross-country canal. He said the 3,100-kilometer-long waterway network would cut the nation’s logistics costs by a third, promote balanced regional development, create thousands of jobs and boost tourism. The project would consist of 17 routes, including a 540-kilometer Seoul-Busan waterway, he said.

In a press communique, the civic groups called upon the community to back their campaign in order to force the government to stop the project.

First off, I gotta tell you, sometimes there will not always be a post every day. I always hope that I will have enough material to provide new projects for you to read about every day. Sometimes there are an abundance, and some days there are none. I will try to spread things out in between the upswings so that I can try to provide quality information every day.

Resources are being put into place to help students in Richmond County and across North Carolina decide upon and locate a mentor on the topic they chose for their graduation project.

Beginning with the class of 2010, all students will be required to score proficient (Level III or IV) on the five end-of-course assessments of algebra I, biology, English I, civics and economics, and U.S. history and successfully complete a graduation project.

Government of Canada Supports skills development and leadership among women in New Brunswick

SAINT JOHN, NB, April 23 /CNW Telbec/ – Immigrant and refugee women and other vulnerable women living in poverty will receive training in computer skills, life skills, leadership and effective communication, thanks to an investment by the Government of Canada.
On behalf of the Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, Mr. Rob Moore, Member of Parliament for Fundy Royal, today announced funding to PRUDE Inc. (Pride Race Unity Dignity Education), for its project, Breaking Free: Women’s Leadership Training and Skills Development.

Coming soon: Sidewalk smiles — Eagle Scout set to launch ‘Just say hi’ initiative

Andover High School senior Eric Simpson hopes to make Andover a friendlier place, one hello at a time.

Simpson, 17, is working on his Eagle Scout project, a campaign titled “just say hi,” involving art and social awareness in town. The project will fully launch in June, after he graduates, he said.

Simpson plans to paint and install murals around town, including at the town skate park, that will encourage residents to be a little more friendly and reach out, especially to folks they don’t know, he said.

CSU to launch project for athletic, academic centers

FORT COLLINS — College campuses tend to be scoffed at by athletes unless someone is tending to the issue of updating facilities and keeping a nice sheen on the place.

Colorado State announced Wednesday its most in-depth investment in decades for on-campus athletic purposes, as ground will be broken this summer on a $13 million indoor practice facility as well as a $7 million academic and training center near the site of Moby Arena. The athletic department has launched a fund-raising campaign; $1.785 million has already been secured, with $1.5 million coming as a gift from Brett and Danette Anderson, natives of Fort Collins and CSU graduates.