Silver lining: Tutoring the elderly is growing fast in China
Hong Kong/Beijing, China Reuters China’s rapidly aging population is fuelling a promising and fast-growing market for companies providing recreational classes and activities for the elderly middle class, from yoga to African drumming and smartphone photography. The growth potential of the industry contrasts sharply with the decline of the after-school private tutoring sector following a government […]
Anglican Church in Uganda and South Koreans launch new missionary training centre
Kampala, Uganda The Anglican Church of Uganda and clergy from Oryun Community Church in South Korea have launched a training centre for missionaries in Uganda. The Daniel Missional Leadership Training Centre at Lweza in Wakiso District, Central Uganda, was commissioned last week at a colourful event graced by top Anglican Church leaders in Uganda and […]
Russia opens investigation after gunmen kill 11 at Russian army base in new blow to Moscow’s Ukraine campaign
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia has opened a criminal investigation after gunmen shot dead 11 people at a military training ground near the Ukrainian border, authorities said on Sunday, as fighting raged in eastern and southern Ukraine. Russia’s RIA news agency, citing the defence ministry, said two gunmen opened fire with small arms during a firearms training […]
Britain’s Boris Johnson meets Zelenskiy on surprise Kyiv trip
Kyiv, UkraineReuters British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered to launch a military training program for Ukrainian forces on Friday as he met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on his second trip to the Ukrainian capital since Russia’s invasion. Johnson, who survived a no confidence vote earlier this month, was greeted by Zelenskiy as a “great […]
Essay: Ukraine refugees – six practical steps to rise to the challenge
In an article first published on The Conversation, CHRISTIAN DUSTMANN and IAN PRESTON provide some tips, drawing on lessons from past crises, to help Europe’s response to the wave of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine….
Health Insight: Over-training syndrome – what it is and how to avoid it
In an article first published on The Conversation, LEE BELL, a lecturer in sport and exercise at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, looks at what happens when you push too hard…
Sight-Seeing: “Natural helpers” – needed reinforcements to head off looming suicides of despair
GLEN BLOOMSTROM, director of US-based Faith Community Engagement for LivingWorks Education – a suicide intervention training company, writes, in an article first published on Religion News Service, about the importance of “natural helpers” in suicide prevention…
UN to train Botswana traditional leaders to fight gender-based abuse
Gabarone, UgandaThomson Reuters Foundation Dozens of traditional leaders in Botswana will take part in a UN training program that aims to help them tackle high rates of gender-based violence in the country, officials and leaders said last week. Nearly 70 per cent of women in the southern African nation have experienced physical or sexual abuse – more […]
Paris charity gets share of $US1 million for training refugees as museum guides
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Guinean refugee Ibrahima Conde arrived in Paris knowing little about French culture. Two years later, he knows enough to work as a museum guide, a job he was trained for by the charity Sama for All. The charity, founded in 2017, works with two of Paris’s top art galleries to train […]
POSTCARDS: WOMEN BRING LIGHT TO REMOTE VILLAGES ON THE ISLANDS OF ZANZIBAR
NICKY MILNE reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation on how a solar power training scheme aimed at women is changing lives…