World Health Day
Posted on 1 July 2010 | No responses
In 2006, World Health Day was devoted to the health workforce crisis. Health workers – the people who provide health care to those who need it – are at the heart of health systems. But around the world, there is a chronic shortage of health workers as a result of decades of underinvestment in their education, training, salaries, working environment and management. The results are evident: clinics with no health workers and hospitals that cannot recruit or keep key staff. This is a crisis from which no country is entirely immune.
Hundreds of organizations hosted events to draw attention to the global health workforce crisis and to celebrate the dignity and value of working for health.
Global Astronomy Month (GAM 2010) – Trailer
Posted on 17 June 2010 | No responses
Global Astronomy Month April
Posted on 17 June 2010 | No responses
In April 2009, the 100 Hours of Astronomy (100HA) Cornerstone Project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) showed what the astronomy community can do working together. As the first truly global outreach event, amateur astronomers, clubs, science centers and others held events by the thousands around the world, attracting the largest public audience ever. The excitement was contagious as this unified global event, encouraging everyone to look skyward, swept the world.
Everyone wanted the excitement to continue, and now it will. Not just repeating 100HA, but something even bigger, built on 2009’s global success.
Global Astronomy Month (GAM 2010) is Astronomers Without Border’s response. New ideas, new opportunities and more participation. Connecting people around the world in these events will create an even greater sense of sharing, just as in AWB’s motto and the slogan for GAM – One People, One Sky.
The global outreach community’s enthusiasm and innovation was critical in making 100 Hours of Astronomy successful, and GAM will continue to bring together all that tens of thousands of enthusiasts worldwide have to offer.
April Fools Day 1st April
Posted on 14 June 2010 | No responses
April Fools Day History
April Fools Day or All Fools’ Day is a noteworthy day commemorated in several countries on 1stApril. And the April Fools Day is noticed through the commission of the hoaxes and new sensible jokes of changeable sophistication on family members, friends, neighbors, and enemies, sending them on fool’s errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the naive. Traditionally, in a few countries, the jokes last until noon: somebody who plays hoax after midday is called an “April Fool”. Somewhere else, such as in USA, France, and Ireland, the gags last the entire day.
Gool S Poonawalla Million Race
Posted on 10 June 2010 | No responses
The Gool S Poonawalla Million Race is held every year at Mahalakshmi Racecourse, Mumbai. This race is organized in the end of racing season of Mumbai that stretches throughout the winter till the month of April. Horses from Bangalore and Mumbai cities take part in the Gool S Poonawalla Million Race and compete for a reward of two million rupees. It is a brilliant chance to have a feel of the bygone era when such races used to take place.