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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Each country has different needs so the gifts vary: Chickens for a school in the Gambia. ChildFund wants to show folks how their efforts and these items benefit children and their communities. A goat for a family farm in Zambia.

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African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

TechCrunch

And because parents do want to invest in the best for their kids, one of the ways you can do that is personalized one-to-one instruction for their children, whether in coding through DevKids or math or science or English.”. Nigeria remains uLesson’s largest market by far, said Shagaya.

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How foreign workers helped spur Spain’s rapid economic growth

Fast Company Tech

The Bank of Spain estimates that an aging Spain will need 30 million working-age immigrants over the next 30 years to sustain the balance between workers and retirees-plus-children. Snchez toured Mauritania, Senegal, and Gambia last year to promote a temporary work scheme whereby African workers could get legal and safe passage to Spain.

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. The Gambia doesn’t have either kind of agreement with the US, and the SCA doesn’t include exceptions for international justice efforts.

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