" Dear Friends,

We are pleased to inform you that the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) has launched a new web portal (as a pilot project) called United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN) to share knowledge and good practices among social development professionals worldwide on ageing, civil society, cooperatives, disability, employment, family, indigenous peoples, poverty, social integration,…

On April 19, UCP-SARnet and Forks for Change organized the first Art for Change event! The event was centered on the theme of universal education.

Over the past year, UCP-SARnet members and partners have been collecting books, laptops, and desktops as part of various humanitarian projects to send these resources to the several partners in Ghana, Ethiopia, Mali, Ethiopia, Mali and Namibia to promote better education in these regions. 

The fundraising event was organized to pursue funds to…

Flyer Made By: Tai Wallace

UCP-SARnet has a new edition in our Board of Directors by way of Lynda Bishop MPC, CEC.

Lynda brings much to the table in the way of women empowerment, both locally and internationally. Lynda is the founder of Women's Circle Network. She also is the current President of the Phoenix Chapter of the National Assoc. of Women's Business Owners. How we came to find her was through her involvement with the World Academy for the Future of Women. Locally she is also involved with Summit Alliance…

Within the framework of the implementation of the recommendations of the EmPeace-LABS 2012 workshop the World Vision for Education and Development (WVED) Bamenda, Martin Luther King Foundation (LUKMEF) Limbe, who participated in the 2012 workshop held in Jalgaon India in collaboration with the North West Association of Development Organisations (NWADO) organized in the North West region of Cameroon a replication workshop.

The workshop that took place on the 23rd January 2013 brought together…

We would like to thank Christopher Deutsch, the cofounder of ONcam (www.oncam.com), for joining us at our Executive Team meeting last week to present this online communication tool. ONcam is an Interactive Video Broadcast System. It is more than Skype. It is a group conversation that can be broadcasted to a much larger audience and a way that thousands of people can take part in the same discussion.  It enables community in ways that Google Hangout cannot. It is technology meant to generate…

As usually at the begining of the semester we had a social gathering for members of UCP-SARnet's Leadership Team and their friends. Below are some photos from the event:

As we have expanded over the years, the site has too. This semester, the ICT Team, composed of Varun Patankar, Frank Fan and myself (Maile Labor), aims to direct the website in a more appealing and simpler manner. Our goal is to "clean up" certain areas so that the website may be condensed and old or outdated information may be less prevelant. We also aim to condense or combine certain areas so that viewers may be able to navigate the site easier and therefore, this will hopefully increase…