More than a Million innocent children are orphaned or abandoned to live on roads in Zimbabwe due to the devastating effects of HIV/ AIDS crisis. These kids have lost their both parents and all elders in family to the AIDS pandemic and experts fear that 1 out 5 children will become orphan by the end 2010 in Zimbabwe. 90 % of these children are raised through extended families and not in orphanage. Efforts to provide basic food, education and health facilities to these children are getting hampered because of the current political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe.

Understanding the needs of your audience is the basis of a successful marketing strategy. It is the starting point for developing a new marketing plan. It is the preparatory work which must be performed, whether you are designing a new strategy or making a mid-course correction to an existing plan.

Dr. Alfonso Costa serves as President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Carson Scholars Fund. Since its 2004 inception, the Pittsburgh Carson Scholars Fund has awarded over 400 students in Pittsburgh-area public and parochial schools with scholarship money to be used toward a college education.

By Desiree Cooper, City Connect Detroit

Local Businesses and Youth Alike Benefit from Summer Program

It is well said that "hope is a rope that swings you through life".If we think about a man with great vision,honesty with a successful business strategy.He is non other than "Darain Atkinson".

The era of doing business without using information technology is long gone. Businesses

nowadays are embracing the world of the Internet and the many avenues for growth it provides.

If you launch and operate like most direct selling companies, statistically your attrition (drop-out) rate will be 80% per year. In other words, out of 100 people you bring to your company in January, only 20 will remain by the end of the year. And, if you are like most, you are thinking, “I’m worrying about getting started and I look forward to having an attrition problem. . . that means that I’m seeing people coming in!”

If your business is selling information there are something’s that you need to consider when you make the move to online business development and product delivery.

New bloggers may enjoy blogging for a time, but then they are seized with youthful wanderlust, and the next thing you know they are out chasing phantoms. Most of the popular blogging platforms have fairly thorough details, for more detail go to: www.atoz-about-rss.com.