Saturday, October 20, 2007

African case study for Development and Health

The Guardian has today launched a new area of its website which is devoted to life in one village in Uganda (click banner to link). With the help of sponsors Barclays Bank and Amref (an African medical and research foundation) and with donations from Guardian readers, they hope to transform the lives of the people who live in Katine over the next three years..
The project is also launched in today's edition of the Guardian in a long article by its Editor. The article begins "With the right flight connections, a journey from the 21st century to the 14th century can take just over 12 hours. It begins in the hot, crowded duty-free hell of Heathrow's terminal 3 and ends - through the bushes down a snaking mud track - by the marshes under a cloudless blue African sky.
This is an excellent on-line resource for Development and Health with resources in a variety of media - images, video, audio and text. It would provide some excellent case study material for Paper 2.