PREVENT HATE diary for the week of April 20-24, 2009

Wow, what a week for PREVENT HATE. We spent time with first ladies of Africa, partied with celebrities, and put on a great program at Hollywood High School. Below is just a general summary of it. Separate updates detailing our work with the First Ladies of Africa, and at Hollywood High School, will be coming soon.   [...]

New Training Program: Socioeconomic Development Training to Empower At-Risk and Marginalized Populations

PREVENT HATE and the City of Los Angeles are corroborating on a public-private partnership in order to provide customized training to governments (including the military and other first responder teams), international agencies, and other relevant entities to empower their at-risk populations, which include people living with disabilities, to become independent and self-sufficient through socioeconomic procedures [...]

The Lost Boys of Sudan Visiting Hollywood High School

The Lost Boys of Sudan   Who are the Lost Boys? In the mid 1980′s, troops of the oppressive fundamentalist government in Northern Sudan began attacking the Black Christian and animist villages in the south. As their houses burned, their parents killed, and their sisters taken into slavery, over 27,000 little boys fled into the night. [...]

Strategy to promote socioeconomic development in the Niger Delta region of Africa, the continent’s largest energy-producing sector.

The ongoing conflict in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, an area which also happens to be the world’s eight largest producer of oil, is one of the continent’s longest. But is it really so intractable that it cannot be solved, or at least alleviated to a large extent? PREVENT HATE does not think so. [...]