A fresh start!
- January 31, 2017
- Category: Blog
EyeOpenerWorks proudly presents its new website! Browse through to discover how we support organizations to create social and sustainable impact, or check out our latest projects, the core team and our growing network of associates around the globe… Please consider this message also as a renewed invitation to create impact together. Don’t hesitate to contact…
Stories of Change in Karamoja
- January 29, 2017
- Category: Blog
How to describe a place that is extremely poor and extremely beautiful? A place that has the most wonderful views of Uganda, a magical starry sky, and a rich cultural heritage. Where one can vanish into the landscape, all senses coming to live. A place that is challenged by climate changes, a history of cattle…
Truly bottom-up
- January 28, 2017
- Category: Blog
There is a lot of talk about bottom-up development; Oxfam in Laos is doing it! Since the end of 2015, they are experimenting with a program that facilitates a community led dialogue in rural areas, whereby the citizens decide what to do with €8000,-, independent of the outcome. This is the essence of the Development…
Television for social change?
- January 27, 2017
- Category: Blog
Television influences society. It can make us change the way we look at others, open our eyes to other cultures, countries, and challenges the way we see ourselves. Recently, American television star Ellen DeGeneres was for example honored with the Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian honor) for openly coming out as gay, and her…
Want to go far? Move together
- January 26, 2017
- Category: Blog
For some, international development might be principally connected to NGOs, foundations and missionary organizations. It is only half of the truth, as private sector players are more and more present in current day development interventions. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development explicitly mentions the private sector as one of the key partners, and so…