From the ground

Five years ago, Mustafa never dreamed that he could make something of his life. Mustafa, who lives in Somaliland, is blind. But that’s not all. Thanks to a stray land-mine, he also lost both of his...
Jo Barrett
03/09/2010 - 16:33
Progressio development worker Innocent Ogaba, who works with small scale farmers in drought-hit southern Malawi, has returned home after attending climate change talks in Bonn. Here he answers some...
Keith Ewing
12/08/2010 - 14:50
  Progressio ‘Local Hero’ Teclah Ponde works in Zimbabwe’s prisons with ZACRO (Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation) on issues of HIV and AIDS. Here, Joseph, one of the...
Progressio
09/08/2010 - 16:12
Progressio's Innocent Ogaba, a development worker with Environment Africa in Malawi, says things are looking up at the latest round of international climate change negotiations in Bonn. Before I...
Innocent Ogaba
06/08/2010 - 09:39
Progressio regional managers oversee five or six country programmes from the UK. Even when I travel as far as one of our country offices, I can get so bogged down in spreadsheets and visits around...
Progressio
04/08/2010 - 16:21
I am constantly learning here in El Salvador, but one lesson that continues to impact me is what happens when it rains hard.  Where I come from in the US, a rainy day is an excuse to settle in...
maggievonvogt
02/08/2010 - 11:35
To quote one of my more knowledgeable colleagues: “Elections are funny things. Highly technical and procedural exercises that are yet filled with emotion and rhetoric.” During Britain’s recent...
Feature
21/07/2010 - 15:34
In the expansive desert strip of Tehama in western Yemen, life can be extremely cruel. Here you will find children who are malnourished, tired-looking with faces that show nothing but hopelessness....
Aloo
29/06/2010 - 16:58
  Forgotten community fights for development for the people Nahuaterique is one of those places on earth where people are not citizens, just people. Driving along the potholed path that leads to...
Progressio
24/06/2010 - 10:55
I love making media with young people. I love watching people tell their own stories, become inspired to create, and lose their inhibitions as they learn how to use equipment. With a little time and...
admin
28/05/2010 - 13:18