Young Voices: Creative Youth in Development
By Creative Associates International
May 3, 2012 | 0 comments
On May 3, 2012, Creative Associates International was pleased to hold an event celebrating youth making a difference in their communities and around the world. The panel and discussion provided young people from diverse backgrounds the space to speak about their experiences growing up in conflict and transition environments and the impact of their experiences on their work to change the future of their nation. Speakers included youth voices from Afghanistan, Egypt, El Salvador and Liberia....Read More
Why Work at Creative?
By Kathryn Erksine
May 3, 2012 | 0 comments
Teaching former Central American gang members the job skills needed to reenter the workforce. Providing grants to make it safe for Afghan girls to attend school. Improving academic performance through self-esteem training in Morocco. Training rural farmers in Yemen on the benefits of composting and pesticides. Helping build the capacity of nascent civil society organizations in Libya....Read More
Microsoft Corporation Teams with the U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative and Creative Associates to Empower Libya’s Emerging Civil Society
April 30, 2012
Microsoft Corporation Teams with the U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative and Creative Associates to Empower Libya’s Emerging Civil Society LIBYA -- The Microsoft Corporation awarded a substantial grant of US $293,266 on March 27, 2012 to provide Microsoft software and professional... Read More
Embracing Rapid Advances In Technology To Empower Communities Worldwide
By Jacqui Deelstra
April 30, 2012 | 0 comments
In 2005 I spent Thanksgiving in the rural community of Kouthiaba in central Senegal. I used the one pay phone available in the community’s commercial center, the village of Kouthiaba Wolof, (which was also the only phone available in the whole community which includes dozens of villages) to call my family....Read More
SNAPSHOT: Kampala, Uganda
By Creative Associates International
April 4, 2012 | 0 comments
Railway is a USAID/UNITY sponsored school for underprivileged, orphaned, and homeless children living within Kampala and the surrounding suburban slums. Railway is not just a school, but a family as well, providing a sense of warmth, unity and compassion for children who have so little of each in their daily lives....Read More
