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What is your Interest?: Sustainable Development

Represent:: Charity

Name of Company / Organization:: Engineers Without Borders UK

What is your current job title / department?: Training Programme Manager for EWB-UK. Studying for an International Development course.

What would you most like to get out of this network?: Meeting people with similar interests and values.

What knowledge, skills and experience do you have that you would be happy for people to contact you over?: The EWB-UK training courses - contact me if you would like to be a part of it!
I spent a lot of time in South America, predominatly Peru where I was working with street kids.

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The Small Is... Festival

Posted on July 29, 2009 at 9:04am 1 Comment 0 Likes

The “Small is…” Festival!

5-6th September 2009

@ Practical Action, The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV23 9QZ, UK

Tel: 01926 634400, E-mail: small_is@practicalaction.org.uk

A varied programme of debates, workshops, learning and exchanges structured around the following themes is planned:

• Small is...economic?

• Small is...appropriate?

• Small is...political?

• Small… Continue

Making Development Fair - a course on Equity and Inclusion

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 12:03pm 3 Comments 0 Likes

At the moment I'm working on a day-long course to look into the issues surrounding Equity and Inclusion in International Development - who is getting missed out and why are they not getting reached? EWB-UK will be running this course in Nottingham, UK on 2nd May and it looks to be a very interesting and throught-provoking workshop. If you are interested in attending then go to www.ewb-uk.org/makingdevelopmentfair.