Posts by The Humanitarian Centre

Two Cambridge students launched the platform AidReversed (www.aidreversed.eu) to establish a collection of ideas on reversed development cooperation – and make it available to a broad community as well as to decision makers. Everyone is welcome to contribute and to submit ideas!
Kerstin Göpfrich and Karl C. Gödel are convinced that their platform can be beneficial for both, the developed and the developing world: “We aim to demonstrate that knowledge and ideas from African countries are (more...)

Today as part of World Humanitarian Day, CBM, the overseas disability charity, celebrates the life and work of Lyn Lusi, the founder of HEAL Africa. During a career that lasted from 1971 until her untimely death in March of this year, Lyn was an inspiration to all those who worked with her and the people that she served in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. Her selfless dedication was recognised by the award of the $1 million Opus prize, one of the world’s most prestigious humanitarian (more...)

The University of Cambridge’s wide-ranging and long-term strategy of engagement with African higher education institutions moved into its next phase following the recent announcement of a $1.2 million grant by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a $1 million grant by The Alborada Trust.
“The University very much values these links and these awards will help us to build further and deeper institutional relationships in order to help the development of higher education”—Professor Sir (more...)

Kirsty Smith has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer at CBM UK, the overseas disability charity.
She will be leading a dedicated team at the charity based in Oakington, Cambridge which helps to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and those at risk of disability. Internationally CBM is working in over 80 of the poorest countries in the world, reaching out to more than 36 million people each year.
Kirsty has been the Chief Executive at MRDF (Methodist Relief & (more...)

Geoff Stead is a supporter and contributor to the Humanitarian Centres year of ICT4D activities and spoke at the ‘Mobile Technologies for Education’ event.  Geoff is head of innovation at Tribal Group, working on mobile education initiatives such as ‘M-Ubuntu’ (http://www.m-ubuntu.org/). He is speaking as part of this Saturday’s TEDx Conference ‘Education Revolution: Turning ideas into action’ which aims to connect young people, parents, teachers, and people at the heart of (more...)

UPDATE (19th July):  The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is coordinating the UK response to the East Africa Food Crisis. As the umbrella organsation for 14 humanitarian aid agencies, the DEC is best placed to distribute donations between aid agencies, where they are most needed. Donations can be made here
The Humanitarian Centre urges a swift response to the growing food crisis in East Africa, following the area’s worst drought in 60 years.
Aid agencies estimate that more than 10 million (more...)