On December 13th
2016 BTC Uganda officially launched the new Health and Education regional
office in Fort Portal. BTC has been operating in the Rwenzori and Albertine
region for years but since June 2016, a regional office has been established in
Fort Portal for the Health and Education projects...
On the 13th
of December, the Support to Skilling Uganda (SSU) project piloted the Skills
Development Fund (SDF) and launched the
business plans of 5 partner institutions in the Albertine-Rwenzori region. At
an event in Fort Portal, partners from the local and national level gathered to
learn about...
Saving groups are sharing outPicture: Sharing out of Ebeneza group in Orkejuloongishu.
They accumulated 3,200,000 Tsh during their first cycle and generated a profit
of around 20% (The price of a share was 500 Tsh and they received 603 Tsh per
share during the share-out meeting).
Trias and its...
In
February 2016, Belgian glass artist Michèle Vanvlasselaer had the opportunity
to visit Gaza for the first time and to present her work to the students of the
University of Palestine.
The
trip to Gaza was a revelation and she returned buzzing with ideas. Inspired,
Michèle decided to create...
The
big dream of Amal (28) was to study in order to open a Beauty salon and provide
her family with a better living. However, she was never able to continue her
education because her parents couldn’t afford it. Later on she got married and
had three kids, but due to the illness of her partner and...
Villages and Municipalities are the oldest
existing level of public authority in Palestine. They even have been, in some
periods of the Palestinian history, the only operational level of
administration. Villages are the main social anchorage of citizens and a true
witness of the Palestinian culture...
Ramallah –
On 12 December 2016 the last Education Sector Working Group of the year took
place at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. This meeting which
gathers all education stakeholders in the Palestinian Territories, including officials
of the MoEHE, national and international civil...
The Work Based Learning (WBL) scheme in which students combine a
theoretical education in a technical or vocational institution with a practical
internship in the private sector is already successfully implemented by BTC in
various areas in the West Bank and Gaza.
Last year, a first WBL-pilot...
The joint service council of
South East Nablus represents four villages: Beita, Osarin, Odala and Za’atara.
Through the joint service council (JSC) these villages strive to be able to
give better services to their citizens. One of the major challenges in the
region is the high youth unemployment...
During the EU joint mission to Gaza and
Inhambane provinces, Mozambique, eight European Heads of Mission from Belgium,
Finland, France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the EU visited the Tomanine pumping station, built
within the framework of BTC Water Supply and Sanitation project.When the
BTC...
« Notre vie dépend de celle de notre rivière » : tel fut le thème
fédérateur de ces quatre jours de sensibilisation, sur quatre points
d’animation tout au long de l’Oued Souss au sud du Maroc. Une caravane de l’eau
organisée par l’Agence du Bassin Hydraulique de Souss Massa, en
collaboration...
During the first week of December, the Joint
Service Council (JSC) of South East Nablus, with the support of the Belgian
Development Agency, has for the first time organized a job training,
followed by a job fair. During the training, fresh graduates learn how to write
a good and original Curriculum...
All over the world, people are migrating from
the rural areas towards the cities. Economic reasons are often the base for
this migration, but the city also attracts people for its social and cultural
life.
Also in Palestine people move out from the
rural areas towards the bigger cities, leaving...
The Palestinian-Belgian project
‘e-learning curriculum in Palestinian Primary and Secondary Education’ has been
rewarded with the Digitalisation for Development prize in Belgium.
From 2011 until 2015, the Palestinian Ministry of Education
and Higher Education (MoEHE) and the Belgian Development...
People have always felt the need to refer to
their history to identify themselves. Heritage is as such a collective property
which tells us this history; the history of people, cities and territories. Heritage
is a witness of our common identity, but also makes it possible for communities
to show...