How Community Partnership Can Drive Sustainable Development

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By Ojo Timothy

Sustainable development does not happen from the top down. It grows from the ground up, through the people who experience the effects of development every day. Development plans created outside a community may have good intentions and enough funding, but they can struggle to continue when the funding ends and the outside organisations leave. Community partnership can help change this. It makes development a shared responsibility and gives people a role in shaping solutions that affect their lives.

Shades of Us at the Movies & BBQ Night

By Cynthia Umeh

On November 23, we had a nice experience at the Movies & BBQ festival: An Evening of Fun, Games, Barbecue, and Movies! The festival was organized by Motion Pictures International Film Festival in collaboration with ATW STUDIOS. The event was packaged by Kris Mokwunye.

Allow Us to Re-Introduce Ourselves

Shades of Us Storytelling Initiative for African People (‘Shades of Us’) is a non-profit organization using storytelling to address the socio-economic issues affecting Africa, Africans and people of African descent. This is with a view to facilitating open and honest conversations that lead to introspection, analysis and perspective change towards the greater goal of a redefined continent and people.