moladi supports 1GOAL: Education for All campaign: "moladi supports 1GOAL: Education for All campaign"
Moladi is supporting the new 1GOAL: Education for All campaign, aimed at making the right to receive an education a reality for every child.
The global campaign is calling on world leaders to provide education for 72 million children worldwide by 2015.
1GOAL is seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first in Africa.
Footballers, fans and FIFA are behind 1GOAL, along with education champions, charities and campaigners. Moladi is supporting the campaign through its partnership with the Global Campaign for Education – with development agencies around the world united in their determination to achieve universal education.
Poverty reduction
Of the eight Millennium Development Goals agreed by world leaders in 2000, two involve ending poverty through education, including ensuring that all children complete primary schooling by 2015.
While some progress has been made in this area – an extra 33 million children are now going to school, thanks to initiatives such as the abolition of school fees in many countries – the goal will not be reached without increased action now.
"Not only does it open up economic opportunity and contribute to poverty reduction, it literally does save lives. Children of mothers who receive an education are twice as likely to live beyond age five."
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Low cost housing for whites
Low cost housing for whites: "Low cost housing for whites"
East London - White families living in shacks and caravan parks in the East London area are not excluded from government's housing programmes because of their race, the Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements said on SaturdaySpokesperson Lwandile Sicwetsha said a number of families who were living below the poverty line had complained to the government because they thought that they did not qualify for housing."Some white families are living in shacks close to the beach and in caravan parks beside dumps," Sicwetsha said."They think they do not qualify for housing programmes, but white families living below the poverty line are not excluded from government housing programmes because of their race."The department has an inclusive housing policy and programmes for all races who qualify for different categories on housing programmes."Sicwetsha said the department had different categories geared towards providing houses to people in the province.Such programmes include low cost housing scheme for people with a monthly income of less than R3 500 per month.Those who earn above this amount qualify for other schemes such as social rental housing scheme which accommodates people with a monthly income of between R3 500 and R7 500 per month."In an effort to close this gap the department has granted funding to social housing companies to build rental housing units in Nelson Mandela Metro and Buffalo City, earmarked to provide decent affordable rental homes to hundreds of low and middle income workers." President Jacob Zuma recently handed over housing units to Emerald Sky, a social housing project that accommodates all races who meet the required income of between R3 500 and R7 500 a month.Sicwetsha said three other projects were under construction in the Nelson Mandela Metro and Buffalo City Municipalities.The one in Buffalo City was nearing completion."White families who qualify on these programmes must contact the responsible social housing companies for applications and those who earn less than R3 500 per month must apply through their local municipalities for low cost housing assistance," Sicwetsha said.
Keywords - Tokyo Sexwale, President Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela Metro, moladi, low cost housing, poor, housing program, race, poverty, social housing, rental housing
East London - White families living in shacks and caravan parks in the East London area are not excluded from government's housing programmes because of their race, the Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements said on SaturdaySpokesperson Lwandile Sicwetsha said a number of families who were living below the poverty line had complained to the government because they thought that they did not qualify for housing."Some white families are living in shacks close to the beach and in caravan parks beside dumps," Sicwetsha said."They think they do not qualify for housing programmes, but white families living below the poverty line are not excluded from government housing programmes because of their race."The department has an inclusive housing policy and programmes for all races who qualify for different categories on housing programmes."Sicwetsha said the department had different categories geared towards providing houses to people in the province.Such programmes include low cost housing scheme for people with a monthly income of less than R3 500 per month.Those who earn above this amount qualify for other schemes such as social rental housing scheme which accommodates people with a monthly income of between R3 500 and R7 500 per month."In an effort to close this gap the department has granted funding to social housing companies to build rental housing units in Nelson Mandela Metro and Buffalo City, earmarked to provide decent affordable rental homes to hundreds of low and middle income workers." President Jacob Zuma recently handed over housing units to Emerald Sky, a social housing project that accommodates all races who meet the required income of between R3 500 and R7 500 a month.Sicwetsha said three other projects were under construction in the Nelson Mandela Metro and Buffalo City Municipalities.The one in Buffalo City was nearing completion."White families who qualify on these programmes must contact the responsible social housing companies for applications and those who earn less than R3 500 per month must apply through their local municipalities for low cost housing assistance," Sicwetsha said.
Keywords - Tokyo Sexwale, President Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela Metro, moladi, low cost housing, poor, housing program, race, poverty, social housing, rental housing
Housing or human settlements
Take back the power - Times LIVE
Dr Mamphela Ramphele says it is time for ordinary South Africans to once again seize control of their own destinies - and firmly remind puffed-up leaders that citizens are the real rulers of this country
We also need to change our development model as a society. A society of passive citizens waiting for delivery of services from government is a society at risk. Imagine how much of an impact we could have had on poverty over the past 15 years if we had involved poor people in the formulation and implementation of development projects in their communities!
Take housing or human settlements. The involvement of prospective house owners in the mapping of settlements, the laying of infrastructure, the building of houses, including all the finishing touches done under management and supervision of experts, would not just produce better houses and neighbourhoods. It would also provide a skills-training base for thousands of young people trapped in poverty. It could defuse the time bomb we are sitting on, of 50% of those aged between 20 and 24 who are wallowing in despair: not in school, not in training and not employed.
We also need to review our approach to social welfare. Our tax base cannot sustain 13 million welfare-grant recipients. Nor is it desirable to have so many people depending on hand-outs. Why not learn from Latin America and turn welfare-grant recipients, other than the severely disabled and the aged, into trainees for productive lives as skilled workers or entrepreneurs? The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh is another example of empowering poor people by giving them a leg-up and not just a hand-out.
Ramphele is former MD of the World Bank and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town
Dr Mamphela Ramphele says it is time for ordinary South Africans to once again seize control of their own destinies - and firmly remind puffed-up leaders that citizens are the real rulers of this country
We also need to change our development model as a society. A society of passive citizens waiting for delivery of services from government is a society at risk. Imagine how much of an impact we could have had on poverty over the past 15 years if we had involved poor people in the formulation and implementation of development projects in their communities!
Take housing or human settlements. The involvement of prospective house owners in the mapping of settlements, the laying of infrastructure, the building of houses, including all the finishing touches done under management and supervision of experts, would not just produce better houses and neighbourhoods. It would also provide a skills-training base for thousands of young people trapped in poverty. It could defuse the time bomb we are sitting on, of 50% of those aged between 20 and 24 who are wallowing in despair: not in school, not in training and not employed.
We also need to review our approach to social welfare. Our tax base cannot sustain 13 million welfare-grant recipients. Nor is it desirable to have so many people depending on hand-outs. Why not learn from Latin America and turn welfare-grant recipients, other than the severely disabled and the aged, into trainees for productive lives as skilled workers or entrepreneurs? The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh is another example of empowering poor people by giving them a leg-up and not just a hand-out.
Ramphele is former MD of the World Bank and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town
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