ORTEC and North Star Alliance are participating in the “11partners in 2011” campaign. This campaign, organized by NUzakelijk.nl, recognizes partnerships between Non-Governmental Organizations (such as North Star) and commercial organizations such as ORTEC, one of North Star’s core partners. With this campaign NUzakelijk, Partners4Change and Young Professionals Make the Difference aim to stimulate the cooperation [...]
“This system enables us to select optimal Roadside Wellness Centres locations” After successfully developing North Star Alliance’s client health registration system, ORTEC has now delivered a new application that will assist North Star in determining optimal clinical locations and number of employees for its network of Roadside Wellness Centres (RWCs). The new solution is developed [...]
Last week, the North Star Alliance – TNT Express Roadshow stopped in the Hague to attend the “TNT Express Convention 2011 – A Global Team, working together”. While TNT has been a core partner of North Star since its inception, this convention was particularly exciting as it saw representatives from every country TNT works in [...]
The newest partner to join North Star Alliance will ensure quality standardization and sustainability across the Roadside Wellness Centre Network PharmAccess Foundation (PharmAccess) and North Star Alliance (North Star) signed a Memorandum of Understanding, making PharmAccess the sixth core partner of North Star. North Star provides health and safety services to mobile workers and communities [...]
Last week, North Star Alliance and Art for AIDS International opened a large exhibition in collaboration with the World Food Programme at the Second Annual Global Agri-Knowledge Share Fair in Rome – hosted at the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a UN agency responsible for combating rural hunger and poverty in developing [...]
This photo was taken during the road show at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MiBuZa) in September 2011 and shows TNT/North Star Alliance Project Manager Rosanne Bonanno explaining the mission of North Star to visitors. To date, the road show has travelled to five countries – Belgium, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Switzerland – [...]
On 26-29 July, North Star Alliance teamed up with Art for AIDS International to pilot a series of innovative visual-arts-based HIV workshops with truck drivers and sex workers in the community of Beitbridge, Zimbabwe. These workshops, led by Art for AIDS International Executive Director Hendrikus Bervoets, use a combination of fact-based knowledge sharing, experiential learning, peer-peer [...]
All of us at North Star Alliance are excited to announce that we’ve signed an agreement with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to gear up cross-border HIV prevention activities over the next five years with a grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. As part of this initiative, we will [...]
The following press release was originally released by ORTEC, North Star Alliance core partner. To view the original posting click here. ORTEC, a leading provider of advanced planning and optimization software solutions and consulting services, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 Global Business Coalition (GBC) Business Action on Health [...]
Small and mid-sized commercial fleet operators in low-and middle-income countries often face challenges to recruit well-trained drivers. Too often, professional driving schools do not exist, there is no clear driver training curriculum and classroom-based training takes drivers off the road, reducing their productivity. In response to this challenge, North Star Alliance and Fleet Forum have [...]
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Announcing Social Entrepreneur of the Year Africa [VIDEO]
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The following post was written by Thabsile Sithole, North Star Alliance Peer Educator at the Ngwenya Roadside Wellness Centre in Swaziland My name is Thabsile ...
