South African station Radio Khwezi is conducting a market research project for community radio stations to understand and identify their markets in the interests of becoming financially sustainable. The research, done through ABC ULWAZI, will involve a consultant interviewing people in the field, including local business people, NGOs and members of local government. Results are expected soon after the process ends on the 29th of November.

The grim reality of life for AIDS orphans and the urgent need to provide them with alternatives to poverty and prostitution does not seem to be getting through to world leaders, said UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy, who has called the global response thus far "grossly inadequate."

Provincial administrators of Burundi's ministries of education and interior joined local officials on the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the inauguration on Wednesday of a collection of "vital data" on all primary school infrastructures in the country, the UN agency reported.

Adisata Ibrahim, a class five student from Ghana tells her story of how an NGO programme in educating girls in rural areas made her join a school. And with flexible hours, education did not come in the way of Adisata helping her mother in household chores.