Dustyhawk :: Broken Mirror

RC Deaf Missions, was set up by 2 siblings - Mario and Agnes - who have journeyed several years with the Deaf community.

With over 16 years of active involvement in Deaf community work, Agnes decided to concertize her commitment to the development of Deaf persons and Deaf advocacy rights.

Together with Mario her brother, she registered RC Deaf Missions (the Mission). This way, Agnes knew that she could take her commitment to further heights and reach out to Deaf people from various walks of life, regardless of religion.

When Mario and Agnes set up the Mission, it was with a two-fold vision ie to make a difference in the lives of Deaf persons, and to be a successful service industry with Deaf impact.

Comic Fiesta is collaborating with The One Academy to bring to you

The International CG and Digital Art Exhibition and Convention

Date: 8th to 11th May 2008
Time: 11am to 9pm
Venue: Hall 3, Mid Valley Exhibition Centre

Whether you are a budding digital artist, or a professional CG master, all are welcome to this first-ever event of its kind! Come and learn, experience, network, interact and find out more about the CG scene. Cosplayers and art lovers are all welcome to join in the fun! And of course, don’t forget to visit Comic Fiesta’s booth to sign up for the competitions!

As Serge is blogging for Unicef for the blogathon, some of his articles will be taken from their site.

Education is a basic human right, vital to personal and societal development and well being. All children deserve a quality education founded on a rights-based approach and rooted in the concept of gender equality. A rights-based approach to education will address inequalities in our societies that are deep-rooted and often gender-based. Such inequalities exclude millions of children, particularly girls, from school or condemn them to educational experiences of very poor quality.

Children are entitled to grow up in an environment that ensures they are protected. UNICEF helps create a protective environment for children that fortifies them against abuse in the same way that good health and adequate nutrition fortify them against disease. Creating this protective environment is the best way we can safeguard children from abuses.

UNICEF does this by raising awareness and enhancing capacities at various levels of society and in the government. A protective environment is one where everyone – from children and health workers to governments and the private sector – lives up to their responsibilities to ensure that children are protected from abuse and exploitation.

The big picture

What issues are addressed under child protection?

A lack of protection affects children in many different situations.

Children deprived of their primary caregiver: In Central and Eastern Europe alone, almost 1.5 million children live in public care. Globally, an estimated 13 million children are orphaned as a result of AIDS alone.

Juvenile justice: More than 1 million children worldwide live in detention as a result of coming into conflict with the law.

Forced and bonded child labour: Approximately 246 million children work, with about 180 million engaged in the worst forms of child labour.

Trafficking of children: An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked every year.

The single most important factor preventing girls from attending and achieving in school is gender discrimination. Girls and boys both have hurdles to overcome. For girls the hurdles are, for the most part, higher and more frequent—simply because they are girls.

You heard that right, that is probably the main factor why many girls around the globe esspecially in the 3rd world country do not get proper education such as us. You see, in those areas a girl is meant for to do 3 things for the family she was born into and for the family that she will have. 1stly, to cook and to do chores, 2nd; to have sex with the husband to produce offsprings, and lastly; to take care of the offsprings.

Differentiated Teaching in a Classroom

An interesting article. From serge’s opinion and thoughts of the education in Malaysia, we seem to be people who are looking for paper qualification and not qualification that can improve our livelihood.

education should be an ever-learning process that goes on throughout our life time. It cannot be a process that ends after university.

We need to open up our minds, to allow students to learn at their own pace and style. And not by spoon feeding them with our methods.

As mentioned by the writer in the link above

Teachers should revise their teaching methods - they can’t just teach (read: spoonfeeding) anymore, they must facilitate and moderate.