Dorothy Ngoma is Executive Director of the National

Organisation of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi. She is also Chair of

the GCAP Malawi platform.

"Enough is enough. The people should not continue to suffer with

people like ourselves, our leaders, and the international community

doing nothing about it. There are enough resources to go around in

this

This year's World AIDS Day commemoration in Zambia had the largest match past i have ever seen. It was well attended and various government ministries as well as civil society organizations participated.   

For some reason or other, i have rarely paid attention to certain world commemorations but this particular one caught my utmost attention. The participants matc

On October 17th not only did I stand up for neglected women in developing countries but I also spoke out against the poor education, poor healthcare, insecure social structure and discriminatory laws on gender basis, pathetic working conditions, longer working hours, lower wages all causing massive injustice, hunger and poverty.

If hunger and poverty are part of the problem and t

I am a youth leader in Northern Bangladesh.  Here 40% of young people are living below the poverty line because they cannot get any work.  To make it worse, the flooding was really bad and gave us the feeling that we had lost so much of the gains we had made in recent years.  This is something I am determined we will not take sitting down.  

I believe so much in the