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Some 1,000 African asylum-seekers detained in “harsh conditions”, including over 200 women and children, are being detained at Israel’s Ktsiyot prison according to activists. Children are receiving little to no education, lack of heat and adequate facilities are beginning to take a toll on the children. “The women and children are still being held separately from their husbands, despite the prison authority’s claim that moving the asylum-seekers to the tent camp was intended to allow for family reunification. There are no social workers to supervise or assist the children, many of whom have undergone severe trauma”.
Distributing insecticide-treated mosquito nets is the single most effective weapon the world has against malaria in Africa,, however, it’s not clear whether making nets widely available is best accomplished through the private or the public sector. See more at Analysis: How to best tackle malaria
One Laptop Per Child project loses Intel as partner, as the they has withdrawn from the international project, claiming “philosophical” differences as a reason for pulling out.
Grandmothers of AIDS orphans find support in South Africa, which is extremely needed as more and more grandmothers find themselves as the sole care taker of the some 11 million children who have been orphaned in the last decade. The support is thanks to a Johannesburg group run by Ingrid Moloi, an HIV-positive activist who realized that not only patients but also caretakers need help to deal with the aftermath of the virus.