The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

Every minute more than 22 children die from the effects of poverty.
Every second more than an acre of rainforest is lost to deforestation.
But we have one solution.
Rescue a Million's innovative program
simultaneously saves two of the earth's most precious
resources - children and the environment.

Rescue a Million helps provide the hard-working parents of children all over the world with micro-loans to start small businesses. With their loans, in the form of cash, equipment, or animals, parents can begin to change the quality of life for themselves and their children. With their new business, or with much needed expansions to an already existing enterprise, parents can generate the income necessary to afford the food, clothing, shelter, medicine and education their
children need-often breaking the bonds of poverty forever. Lives are saved when children are rescued from poverty

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Kenya: Draft Law Setback as Politicians Squabble

How long will this take?

The major political parties dealt a blow to the draft constitution on Thursday, taking antagonistic positions in the review process. MPs rejected for a second time, an attempt to hold a meeting to seek unity in Naivasha, meaning that the squabbling could spill over to the floor of the House on Tuesday afternoon.

There were fears that the review had become a theatre for political wars and power struggles within the ruling coalition. "There is a lot of drama surrounding this (review) process that has nothing to do with the new constitution. I think we should not allow these differences to cloud the objective of getting a new constitution," said Parliamentary Select Committee on the constitution chairman, Mr Mohamed Abdikadir.
He asked MPs not to politicise the review when debate on the draft begins next week. Orange Democratic Party and Party of National Unity have taken opposing sides on whether there should be amendments to the draft presented to Parliament by the Committee of Experts.
PNU favours the revision of the draft done by the PSC while ODM supports the output of the CoE as the final document. On Thursday, PNU members of Parliament met and expressed fears that some of their ODM counterparts were hatching plans to derail the review.

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Kenya: Kenyan Music Online

Isn't this some good news?
Kenyan musicians can now sell their music online and receive their payments through mobile cash platforms.
A local online store has been opened to serve local artistes, who have been plagued by poor distribution channels in the country and abroad.
The artistes can now place their music in the online store, pewahewa.com, for their fans to select and complete purchase through M-pesa or Zap money transfer platforms.

"Pewahewa.com has opened musicians to a whole new world of music distribution," said David Kuria, the business development manager of Pewahewa Music Limited during the shop's launch on Thursday night at a Nairobi hotel."We seek to empower local musicians by making their music not only easily accessible to their fans but also as affordable as possible."

Each song will cost Sh30. Pewahewa has partnered with ipay, a real-time online transaction processing system, launched last month targeted at the region's online merchants offering an alternative payment channel to credit cards.
"Increasing number of internet users have spurred the need for e-commerce in the country and the mobile money platforms serve as an alternative to those with no credit cards," said Steve Ogolla of Intrepid Data Systems.
The innovators hope to tap into the fast growing market, where about 10 million Kenyans using the mobile cash services. The availability of more bandwidth in the country has also supported the development.
Mr Kuria said: "We are passionate and committed to using every resource available at our disposal to ensure musicians are compensated for their hard work." 

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