Rihanna and Justin Bieber tweets used to teach Brazilian kids how not to write

poor or non-standard English used by the stars in Twitter differs for children in schools in Red Balloon

grammatically incorrect tweets Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are used as educational tools to help Brazilian students learn proper English.

• In an attempt for reflection help students learn in an attractive, modern Globe English school system, which has branches in several cities in Brazil, has been getting his students Criticism tweets celebrities poorly written. The "Cops Celeb grammar" is a team of children aged eight to 13 who meet to correct grammatical solecisms editions celebrities. Team was formed when the red balloons teachers worried that students absorbed or too grammatically incorrect English familiar in tweets by artists. Once the police have located your target, then use the Twitter account @ redballoon review tweets, send suggestions for redactions.
• Although police dealt with a number of Tweeting actors like John Cusack and Charlie Sheen, musicians are among the worst offenders verbal. In eleven years, Caroline was offended by a tweet from Rihanna: "@ She is my rock if I'm holding it tight" Caroline said, "Hello @ rihanna! I love your songs. My name is Caroline. M 11 years. No it is for her. Goodbye. "Milena, 10, was on the heels of the spelling of the" crowd "Lady Gaga:" phoenix blood was just downright crazy to # 4showsin4days in three states that I'm going to sleep for the next 24 hours .. . "Tweet Soulja Boy:" She is not a queen if you belong to a king "came under the control of Mayara and Anna, who responded. "We are 11 and 8 Did you say" no "and" do not? ":)".
• So far, none of the celebrities asses responded to tweets from the grammar police.

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Developing the first deafblind curriculum in Kenya

deafblindness is a handicap minorities and Kenya, there are 10 specialized centers only. Edwin Osundwa written on the steps that are performed to make education more inclusive

In the coming months, a new program will be implemented in 10 blind Kenyan education in special schools units. This is the result of a collaboration between the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE), which will hopefully lead to a better quality of education for deaf-blind children in the country Kenya Sense and international.

Many specialized teachers struggled without a curriculum. Classes can be chaotic, lack of management and teachers have asked us what they could do to ensure good ground is covered and how to measure children's progress.

The result KIE approached to ask if they wanted to work with us to create a new national program for children who are deaf and blind. In the coming months, we worked with KIE bring us a lot of practical experience working with deaf-blind children and their families and the desire to create a program that would improve the quality of education for children and allow us to measure their progress.

also organized for parents of deaf-blind children and teachers to share their views on what should be included in the new program. Parents often have their own vision of the skills a child deaf-blind need help around the house or that your child has found most useful to learn at school. Was essential that were included in the process.

One of the biggest challenges we face at work was the level of bureaucracy that had to be forded to introduce the new program. This ranged from delays in the approval of certain sections of the curriculum for small repairs that take a long time. Teachers with whom we work are often frustrated by the time required for the new curriculum to make, hoping to see results sooner rather than later. There was also a general election during which meant some idle while new leaders have taken aspects. As with any major project, disputes over money for the resources available has also been a difficult and remains a challenge.

However, the hard work has paid off and the resulting new program will ensure that students receive constant blind education that meets your needs and can help you prepare for life after school.

There are about 17,000 deafblind people in Kenya, without the intervention and support that many of them are short and lonely lives. The school and the possibility of a formal education is not always an option for these children. For some families, the distance to an appropriate educational placement is too much or too high cost of boarding fees. In Tanzania, the government pays for, and we encourage the Kenyan government to adopt a similar policy. The next big project for us is the development of a standard program for those who are educated at home to ensure that they receive the same benefits that children in schools. We have received funding for this work and will start in September AusAID.

• deafblindness is a minority of people with disabilities and therefore can be ignored by national institutions. We are grateful to Kie, but the reality is that there are many government institutions and disabled priorities deafblindness. In some countries do not even have a word of deafblindness. However, this project has demonstrated what can be achieved with political will and expertise of organizations like ours. We are proud of what has been accomplished and we are now ready to repeat the process of homeschooling.
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Greece's food crisis: families face going hungry during summer shutdown

forehead report charities that up to 90% of families living in the poorest neighborhoods rely on food banks and soup kitchens. But with no end to austerity, even volunteers flag

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Hunger is not a word that comes easily to me Antonis Antakis. And 28 Veikou Street, within the narrow limits of the Solidarity Club, not a word mentioned again. But the fear of not having enough to eat is the force that drives the left here - and what keeps stacking tireless volunteer rice, pasta and other dry food for the Greeks as Antakis take home

"The truth is, if I did not come here do not have the means to feed my children," said the father of three children recently widowed, her eyes fixed on the ground. " Three years ago, when I was the boss and had two employees, the idea of ??going anywhere food gathering would have been inconceivable. At that time, I was earning € 3,000 (€ 2,600) per month and the fridge was always full. "

The task of ensuring that families Antakis the power during the summer became more marked on the weekend and the Greeks ready to take their traditional summer break, which affects the delivery basic services such as food distribution to the poor.

Normally, the view of the Orthodox Church - or any other charity - man in August new scale would have gone unnoticed. But indebted Greece is impossible to ignore. Against a backdrop of record unemployment, and stuck in its worst crisis in modern times countries, the challenge is the surface in a way that few would have predicted. Hunger and malnutrition are part of this spectrum.

For Antakis and growing depends on soup kitchens, which will now be deprived of external support, in August became the cruelest month.

"I'm really worried that one day I will not be able to feed my kids at all," lamented the old soil layer 39, a taxi driver was. "If the boss, now I'm happy if I win € 500 per month. Can not live it and pay all your bills and debts and any taxes you shoot, and still survive. "

With its dedicated and knowledgeable mind-the Solidarity Club is similar to many other established by concerned citizens horrified by the corrosive effects of austerity groups. It is, but not supported by the local branch of the opposition party of the radical left, SYRIZA.

In a telling sign of the disintegration of the social fabric seat Greece Veikou Street sit on the outer edge decrepit capital trapped in a sixth year of recession, but at its center, the streets of boulevard dearest to Athens and the Acropolis.

"I had no idea and I was surprised to learn that people in this neighborhood, in the streets, in all buildings that occur every day, while they were suffering "said Ms. Panaghiota Mourtidou of 54, the organization co-founder, active packaging food boxes." After all, we are talking about the middle class, which for a long time were too embarrassed to admit they had this kind of problem. "
• malnourished children have finally given away the secret in the midst of national reports of schoolchildren fainting. "Teachers have been cases of children who have been to school with nothing but rice or stale biscuits to inform months," recalled Mourtidou. "That's when we decided to work with parents' associations and traces families. With collections of food in supermarkets road now we feed about 130 people twice a month. "
• the country teetering useful to another brochure, an atmosphere of quiet desperation grows in Greece. The politics of poverty - caused by the incessant cuts, tax increases and job losses required in exchange for bailout funds from the EU and the IMF - has left debris in its wake
The Greek Orthodox Church only feeds about 55,000 people per day, city officials have distributed 7,000 meals at soup kitchens near Athens. "Normally, we do not close, but the women volunteers who cook in the kitchen of the church around Athens needs a break," said Father Timothy, spokesman of the Holy Synod, the body church leader.

"At all levels, people find it very difficult. Demand for food has increased dramatically," said the Guardian, assuming that if necessary could not go to church central room were likely to face enormous difficulties.

In the town of Neos Kosmos, a working class neighborhood, where people are often seen scavenging for food in the weekly fruit and vegetable market, Christos Provezis say more clearly. "There was a time that a person of 10 went to the soup kitchen," said the unemployed civil engineer who started his own group solidarity in the region last year. "Today is more like nine out of 10.
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