In Asia » Video http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia Weekly Insight and Features from Asia Mon, 20 May 2013 17:21:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 VIDEO: Storytime Campaign Reaches 2 Million Children Across Asia http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/09/05/video-storytime-campaign-reaches-2-million-children-across-asia/ http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/09/05/video-storytime-campaign-reaches-2-million-children-across-asia/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:20:40 +0000 admin http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/?p=14748 In the lead-up to International Literacy Day on September 8, The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program launched Storytime in Asia, a month-long campaign that celebrates the transformative power of children’s books by providing critically needed reading material to some of the world’s poorest students. The campaign brings together four world-class children’s book publishers – Scholastic; Penguin Young Readers Group; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; and ABRAMS. Watch a brand new video that features a sampling of the schools that have received books so far.

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]]> http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/09/05/video-storytime-campaign-reaches-2-million-children-across-asia/feed/ 0 Lotus Award Recipient Sakena Yacoobi Tells How She Risked Her Life to Educate Girls in Afghanistan http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/06/13/lotus-award-recipient-sakena-yacoobi-tells-how-she-risked-her-life-to-educate-girls-in-afghanistan/ http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/06/13/lotus-award-recipient-sakena-yacoobi-tells-how-she-risked-her-life-to-educate-girls-in-afghanistan/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:01:05 +0000 admin http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/?p=14211 Watch a brand new video, screened for the first time publicly on June 7 at The Asia Foundation’s Lotus Leadership Awards in New York. The film features world-renowned teacher, leader, and advocate Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, and recipient of the 2012 Lotus Leadership Award. In this video, she tells how she launched the first learning centers inside refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan; risked her life to run illegal home schools for girls during the Taliban regime; pioneered student-centered learning and teacher training in Afghanistan; and created the very first specialized health clinics for women, enabling many women and their families to see a doctor for the first time ever.

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]]> http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/06/13/lotus-award-recipient-sakena-yacoobi-tells-how-she-risked-her-life-to-educate-girls-in-afghanistan/feed/ 0 Asia Foundation Trustee and Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Lectures on Future of U.S. Military http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/05/16/asia-foundation-trustee-and-former-u-s-ambassador-to-afghanistan-karl-eikenberry-lectures-on-future-of-u-s-military/ http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/05/16/asia-foundation-trustee-and-former-u-s-ambassador-to-afghanistan-karl-eikenberry-lectures-on-future-of-u-s-military/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 00:30:36 +0000 admin http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/?p=14028 Karl Eikenberry...]]> In the lead up to the NATO Summit in Chicago where leaders are expected to discuss the transition in Afghanistan, The Asia Foundation’s new trustee and former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, delivered a lecture at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University on the broader future of U.S. Military, challenges as the war in Afghanistan winds down, the need for greater accountability, and more. Eikenberry was ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009-2011 where he led the civilian surge directed by President Obama to set the conditions for transition to full Afghan sovereignty.  Watch video.

]]> http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/05/16/asia-foundation-trustee-and-former-u-s-ambassador-to-afghanistan-karl-eikenberry-lectures-on-future-of-u-s-military/feed/ 0 Kabul ER: The Power of a Book http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/04/04/kabul-er-the-power-of-a-book/ http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/04/04/kabul-er-the-power-of-a-book/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:00:36 +0000 admin http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/?p=13115 In Afghanistan, physicians at training hospitals across the country struggle to update their skills and provide adequate care to patients because of a lack of equipment, materials, and up-to-date medical texts and reference materials. In 2011, The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia provided over 4,000 medical texts to health care institutions in Afghanistan – including Kabul Medical University. This film explores the reference materials shortage facing many physicians at training hospitals in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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]]> http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/04/04/kabul-er-the-power-of-a-book/feed/ 0 A Changing Indonesia http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/01/18/a-changing-indonesia/ http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/01/18/a-changing-indonesia/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:21:19 +0000 admin http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/?p=11831 Indonesia boasts one of the most successful development stories in Asia, with a thriving economy, stable democracy, and a young, technologically sophisticated population. Despite this, Indonesia still faces stubborn development challenges such as poverty, gender inequality, overpopulated prisons, and burdensome regulations that slow down business growth. This brand-new video explores how The Asia Foundation has worked in Indonesia for over 50 years to help the nation address these challenges.

]]> http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/01/18/a-changing-indonesia/feed/ 0 Community Mediation in Nepal http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2011/10/26/community-mediation-in-nepal/ http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2011/10/26/community-mediation-in-nepal/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:05 +0000 admin http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/?p=11252 George Varughese describes The Asia Foundation's approach to community mediation in Nepal, and includes footage of mediators and disputants engaged in an actual mediation session...]]> In this new video, Nepal Country Representative George Varughese describes The Asia Foundation’s approach to community mediation in Nepal, and includes footage of mediators and disputants engaged in an actual mediation session. Nepal’s citizens face both a weak and inaccessible formal justice system and inadequate means of resolving local disputes. Mediation is able to fill this void in judicial assistance by providing immediate, affordable, and locally accessible dispute resolution services. Since 2001, The Asia Foundation has worked intensively to develop interest-based mediation and is currently a recognized leader in community mediation in Nepal. Mediation in Nepal offers a space to resolve interpersonal and collective disputes, which transforms adversarial tensions into relationships based on mutual respect.

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