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Lending a learning hand
Written by Muhammad Bilal Khalid
What started as a project to help improve the English language skills of underprivileged kids turned into something a lot more for the group of volunteers who ventured out to teach students at the Dar-ul-Shafqat, an orphanage in Pakistan. With activities ranging from English language workshops to playing cricket and letting the kids sing […]
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Pakistan’s Edhi Effect
Written by Aown Kaz
As the Pakistani successive regimes fail at achieving a superlative mark in the provision of basic social services to its people, we see how one particular man stood up and made a paramount difference in the lives of an entire nation. Today when it comes to human development, governments in […]
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Lack of Public Confidence is the Main Issue facing Serbia’s NGO Sector
Written by marko035
The Serbian NGO sector is facing many challenges today. A survey conducted in 2005 (but still applicable) by a group of international human rights organizations (Freedom House, Oxfam Netherlands, civic initiatives and the Federation of NGOs in Serbia – “Vanredno izdanje: NVO sektor u Srbiji“) highlighted a number of the main […]
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The Dream of the Emergence of True Democracy is Finally Starting to Come True…
Written by Maria Farooq
Ever since my childhood I have heard stories of the inefficiency of governmental institutions and forms of governance related to issues of health, schooling and so on. I always seen people dissatisfied with, and disapproving of, officers and legislators working at the administrative or legislative level – partly because they […]
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Shared Global Governance: What The CIA Has Taught Us Not To Do
Written by Peter Hagen
Peter Hagen asks what happens when the separate worlds of global politics and the work of Civil Society Organisations come together.
