by Laura Preston | May 21, 2014 | Africa Link, Education, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News
Greetings from Yaounde, Cameroon! After a 24 hour trip including a power outage at another airport, at 1 AM in the morning I finally made it into the welcoming arms of the founder of Tassah Academy, Bih Janet Shufor and her wonderful family and friends. After an...
by Laura Preston | Apr 28, 2014 | Africa Link, Education, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News
This month was a great start to our new focus group: meet two members of the Education Advisory Board, Ted and Robin. Although they are full time teachers, they managed to make time for ISSP on a Sunday afternoon to meet with Jonathan Berkey and the team for a...
by Laura Preston | Mar 30, 2014 | Laura's Blog, MIIS, News, Peace Corps
Dear Reader, Let me introduce myself as the newest member of ISSP. Let me tell you a little about myself: I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and then double majored in International Affairs and French at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon. Always interested...
by issp | Dec 9, 2013 | Africa Link, ISSP, News
ISSP’s own Advisory Board member Ajume Wingo wrote an eloquent remembrance of and tribute to Nelson Mandela. Here are the first few paragraphs of his article: As an African from Cameroon I am touched, as are many people from around the world, by the death of...
by issp | Nov 16, 2013 | Africa Link, Education, Gender Equity, ISSP, News
Editor’s Note: The following article was written by TechWomen, the organization that organized the amazing event described here. One of the participants, Bih Janet Shufor Fofang, met with ISSP Board members and Santa Cruz County area educators during her visit...
by issp | Oct 28, 2013 | Education, ISSP, News
On October 27, 2013, the Education Advisory Board of ISSP held its first official meeting, held at the home of Jim & Tanja Tucker, ([now former] Board Treasurer and Education Advisory Board member, respectively), in Corralitos, CA US. Discussions focused on...
by issp | Oct 12, 2013 | Africa Link, ISSP, News, Partners
The Global Education Partnership (GEP, from which ISSP grew) established a GEP satellite in Tanzania in 1997. When the GEP USA Headquarters was “Dissolved” in 2005, the satellite office in Tanzania registered as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the same...
by issp | Oct 10, 2013 | ISSP, News, Power Africa Schools, Solar Energy
An interesting post and “graph of the day” (posted 10/10/2013) from the Center for Global Development. Find the post at www.cgdev.org/blog/how-much-power-does-power-africa-really-need.
by issp | Aug 29, 2013 | ISSP, News, Power Africa Schools, Solar Energy
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf makes the case for President Obama’s Power Africa initiative. (Excerpted from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s article in Foreign Policy Magazine, published August 29, 2013.) “The Cowboys Stadium uses more...
by issp | Jun 30, 2013 | News, Power Africa Schools, Solar Energy
Today President Obama announced Power Africa, a new initiative to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa. More than two-thirds of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is without electricity, and more than 85 percent of those living in rural areas lack access. ...
by issp | May 12, 2013 | News, Solar Energy
The Clean Power Africa conference and exhibition is the largest event in Africa where major stakeholders from the clean energy sector get together to network, do business and meet new partners and suppliers, including IPPs, developers, utilities, municipalities and...
by issp | Feb 17, 2011 | Africa Link, Education, Gender Equity, News
From a recent article in Time magazine: We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the...
