http://www.civilizednation.com/news/ Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Responsible Practices en-us http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1988 The Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP) last Wednesday launched a campaign of open debate in all schools with a major aim of building a culture of dialogue, debate and tolerance. Speaking at the launching of the campaign at the AVEGA complex hall in Rwamagana Town, the representative of IRDP, Professor Pierre Rwanyindo said the institute seeks to contribute to the creation of sustainable peace in the country. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1978 The twinning school project aims at linking up well-resourced schools with under-resourced schools and is being piloted at Camps Bay High and Hout Bay Secondary. The pilot project, an initiative of the Western Cape Youth Commission, was launched in Hout Bay on Friday. If it proves successful, it will be rolled out provincially next year. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_24.shtml#1947 A PROGRAMME FUNDED BY the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Water Challenge is set to transform the lives of about 90,000 schoolchildren in Siaya district in Kenyas Nyanza province. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_23.shtml#1950 The City of Cape Town has taken a small step forward in energy savings this year with the installation of energy-efficient festive season lights. Instead of the standard lighting that is used every year, the city has installed energy-efficient rope lighting and LED (light-emitting diode) lamps. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_24.shtml#1944 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai called on citizens around the world to plant 1 billion trees in the coming year to fight global warming. The project calls on participants — including individuals, schools and governments — to sign up on UNEPs website and register the trees they planted. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1954 The United Nations childrens agency (Unicef) has launched the first computer game in Kiswahili, aimed at halting the spread of HIV and Aids. The game called What would you do? (Ungefanyaje?) takes players through various scenarios to explain the importance of prevention and testing. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_25.shtml#1930 The Rwandan vice mayor in charge of social affairs Jeanne dArc Gakuba has said that traffic lights that have been dysfunctional for a long period are to start working, powered by solar energy. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1902 Inveneos first system was installed in Uganda last year, connecting five villages through a wireless network. Mellow says villagers are using the system to improve their businesses. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_23.shtml#1888 The city of Cape Town has signed a deal to buy wind-generated electricity, in what is set to be South Africas first fully fledged wind power project. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_23.shtml#1881 Thousands of earthworms guzzle tonnes of scrap food left over from the tables of the rich and famous at South Africa's plush Mount Nelson hotel, quietly doing their bit to save the planet. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1849 Down a remote dirt road in western Kenya is the Givogi Secondary School. As with many schools in the country, it is illuminated with the help of kerosene lamps. This summer, a group of volunteers will bring new light to the 250-student school. A $6,000 solar-powered lighting system will be installed at the school in August by Mark Maxam, a Wappingers Falls resident, and other volunteers from across the country. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1815 THE Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) project is to install solar electricity in primary school teachers houses in Pallisa district, to improve academic performance. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_24.shtml#1715 Efforts to recycle aluminium and foil in this country have led to 24,000 trees being planted in climate change-affected parts of Africa. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1619 http://www.civilizednation.com/news/article_1618.shtml Hearing-impaired children in Somalias capital, Mogadishu, now have reason to enjoy a normal childhood, thanks to the opening of the countrys first and only school for students with hearing difficulties. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1569 Sub-Saharan Africa will be among the early beneficiaries of a novel international project which will use the power of television to fight illiteracy and poverty, the project organisers said here. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_24.shtml#1557 http://www.civilizednation.com/news/cat_index_22.shtml#1516 This week, a recycling centre will open for business, employing 15 people from the neighbourhood, who will receive three months on-the-job training and later take over the running of the centre. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/article_1507.shtml The first time Micha De Winter walked into a child-friendly space in a camp for displaced people in Darfur in March 2005, he found 150 children crowded into 25 square metres, supervised by one animator holding a stick in one hand and a whip in the other. http://www.civilizednation.com/news/article_1428.shtml The web page is as brightly coloured as a primary school text book, but the images conjure the anxiety of abandonment and uncertainty that any child would feel at the loss of their parents. With this introduction, aimed at young people in the developed world, the first internet-based intervention highlighting Swazilands humanitarian crisis went online this week.