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Turkana, in northern Kenya, has been hit by a massive drought for over a year, triggered and worsened by the effects of El Nino. Under a program called Kenya Resilient Arid Lands Partnership for Integrated Development (Kenya-RAPID), funded by USAID and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), CRS is the lead NGO in Isiolo and Turkana Counties working with Catholic Church dioceses to support the County governments as they develop their capacities to sustainably tap and exploit precious water reserves in Kenya's Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, or ASALs. Substantial water supplies lie below ground, so using them responsibly and maintaining them at the County level (as part of Kenya's devolution under the new Constitution of 2010) is key to the economic development of these traditionally marginalized lands. In the ASALs, crop farming is possible only along riverbeds and/or with irrigation, so livestock is a mainstay of the economy. Ensuring access to water for livestock and people is a major pillar of the program.
Often what one notices in Turkana is not only the scarcity of water, but a shocking mismanagement of those water resources when they are available. Here, a solar-powered pumping system supplies a local village, but a school and dispensary were without water, but the pump keeps running to overflowing, sometimes due to some malfunction. Here, CRS and the Diocese of Lodwar have partnered with the Lodwar Water and Sanitation Company (LOWASCO) and the Turkana County government to extend the water to a medical facility, and a concrete livestock watering trough will be built separate from where humans draw their water.
Often, the water is allowed to flow freely like this to provide water to the animals, but without a concrete receptacle, the water quickly seeps back into the ground and is wasted.
The dispensary, without a clean water supply, couldn't provide services to the local people, especially in its maternity ward.
Photo by Nancy McNally/Catholic Relief Services
Meeting of the Education 4.0 Alliance
Asheesh Advani, President and Chief Executive Officer, JA Worldwide, USA; Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Development Impact and the PhD scholarship - Road Map training, December 2013
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
U.S. Department of Energy – Savannah River (DOE-SR) Deputy Manager Thomas Johnson opened the LEAP’s annual Professional Development conference by speaking on the day’s theme “LEAP into Success,” and gave participants lessons he learned while progressing through his career.
Ready for the next step. Not in the shot the one tree a large cedar, still there. Unknown whether it will remain
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6th Regiment, Basic Camp Cadet Wilims Mora, University of Houston, is moved by his squad members on the team development course at Fort Knox, Ky., Aug 2, 2019. | Photo by Mary Kate Griffin, CST Public Affairs Office.
Sofia Moreira de Sousa, Deputy Head of Delegation, European Commission in South Africa speaking at the Kapuscinski Development Lecture at University of Cape Town on 5 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu
Of all the wonderful creatures in nature, the human teenager is one of the most curious. Caught in a paradoxical dilemma, teens strive for independence from their parents, but they also rely heavily on their dependence. “Mom, get out of my life, but first take me to the mall.”
I took this at the Child Development Center at Grossmont College. They have developed into a Reggio Emilia center. I loved it. I really like how they used natural items through out the classrooms and I liked how they displayed the art work. They had really neat 3-D art projects displayed.
The Taveta weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps) is a striking bird species native to East Africa, particularly found in areas of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It is known for its vibrant chestnut-colored head and yellow body, with males displaying more vivid plumage during the breeding season to attract mates. This social species is often seen in large flocks, building intricate, hanging nests in trees, and primarily feeds on seeds and insects, typically in grasslands and savanna habitats.
The long diverse journey exploring the themes around OKSparks! Research & Development touched on everything from circuit board assembly and testing, software development, board game making, drawing, graphic design, Amateur Radio License Exams, Research interviews, planning meetings, workshop trial runs, laser cutting, lab visiting, micros residencies, site visits endless car journey conversations on the relationship between art, science and tiffin tins and community building events. Investment in this kind of practice needs time and space; Ok Sparks allowed all this to happen!
The flight over showed Arrested Development and Fraiser with Finnish subtitles. For some reason, this amused me greatly.
Work has started at Bournville Gardens retirement village! ExtraCare's Chief Executive, Nick Abbey, local residents Brian and Patricia Ford and Bournville Village Trust Chief Executive Peter Roach.
The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.
Barking Riverside is a mixed-use development in the area of Barking, east London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is being built on land formerly occupied by Barking Power Station, adjacent to the River Thames, and is 10.5 miles (16.9km) east of Charing Cross. The 440 acre brownfield site has planning permission for 10,800 homes.
As planning restrictions prevented more than 1,200 homes without adequate transport links,[2] the London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking line has been extended to Barking Riverside to allow the development to be completed as planned. The new station opened to the public on 18 July 2022 and was opened official in the morning of my visit on 25 July.
Between 1995 and 2000, Bellway Homes built 900 homes and since 2004 the development has been managed by Barking Riverside Ltd, a partnership between GLA Land and Property and Bellway. Building work under this partnership commenced in 2010 and the first homes were occupied in 2012.
In 2016, housing association L&Q bought out Bellway's stake in Barking Riverside Ltd, entering into a joint venture with the GLA to deliver the remaining new homes. There will be three neighbourhood centres and when complete in the 2030s, the development as a whole will have a population of approximately 26,000.
(L-R) Kingdom of Bahrain Minister of Finance and Development Committee Chairman Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa greets Singapore Minister for Finance and International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the opening of the Development Committee meeting held during the 2011 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at World Bank Headquarters April 16, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
IMF Staff Photo
Lintar oil was created in a unique project which combines the initiative of CEMEX employees with the company’s commitment to business based on sustainable development. Lintar is the only Croatian olive oil obtained from olive groves planted on rehabilitated quarry sites.
Septermber 24, 2011 - Washington DC. 2011 World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Press Briefing: Development Committee Chair, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Photo: ©vSimone D. McCourtie / World Bank
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Meeting of the Coalitions for Women’s and Girls’ Health
Helen E. Clark, Chair of the Board, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva; Judith Moore, Global Head of Public and Government Affairs, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Denmark; Tanja Brycker, Vice-President, Strategic Development, International, Breast & Skeletal Health (BSH) and GYN Surgical Solutions (GSS), Hologic, USA; Helga Fogstad, Executive Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva; Patricia Geli, Executive Director, Reform for Resilience Commission, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA; Shyam Bishen, Head, Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare, Member of Executive Committee, World Economic Forum. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September 2022