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Media release: More than money: achieving quality education for Africa

9th May 2008

Perran Penrose, Chairperson of LCD, comments on why more than just money is needed to improve the quality of education in Africa.

Media release: Arsenal stars team up with LCD for the Great African Journey

1st November 2007

Four of Arsenal’s native African stars teamed up with Link Community Development - on Thursday 1st November to help launch The Great African Journey at Holloway School. Ivorians Emmanuel Eboue and Kolo Toure, Togo’s Emmanuel Adebayor, and Cameroonian Alex Song all attended the launch of the new educational and fundraising project.

Media release: Irish pupils become global citizens

5 July 2007

LCD in Ireland has their first linked school! Pupils from Mount Anville Primary School, Stillorgan finished the school year by meeting representatives from Link Community Development who have linked their school with Kiteera Primary School in Uganda.

Gordon Brown

Media release: Global Campaign for Education 2007 launch
16 January 2007
There are still 80 million children who miss out on education because of poverty. The annual GCE is launched with Gordon Brown ...

Media release: Teacher training - African style
31 August 2006
37 teachers have returned to the UK having spent their summer holiday improving education in Africa ...

Media release: Teachers help improve education in Africa
17 July 2006
38 teachers will leave Heathrow airport on Friday 21 July for a five-week placement working in some of the poorest and most remote regions of Africa ...

Media release: Pupils get boring in Ghana
14 July 2006
Children from Southfields Primary School in Coventry have shown that school links with Africa can really make a difference ...

Media release: Ancient African competition hits Islington schools
20 June 2006
Children from seven Islington schools are taking part in a competition involving an ancient African strategy game called oware ...

Media release: Epic UK skate approaches home stretch
18 May 2006
Dave Cornthwaite is heading through the Midlands, over 550 miles into the first ever attempt to skateboard the length of Britain ...

Media release: UK teachers given opportunity in Ghana
2 May 2006
Teachers in the UK are being offered the opportunity to spend five weeks in a school in Ghana this autumn as participants in the Global Teachers Programme ...

Media release: Record breaking skate to change hearts and minds
19 April 2006
Dave Cornthwaite (26) will attempt to skate almost 1000 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on his bright yellow longboard, Elsa ...

Media release: Mayor celebrates school linking with Africa
19 April 2006
The Mayor of Islington, Jonathan Dearth, is bringing together schools in Islington which have links with African schools for 'Celebrating our Links', at Islington Town Hall ...

Media release: UK schools given more opportunities to link with schools in Uganda
13 April 2006
The Big Lottery Fund has announced it will give a £500,000 grant to international development agency Link Community Development (LCD) to extend its education programme in Uganda ...

Media release: World's biggest hitch to Africa
8 March 2006
Hundreds of people are about to take part in the world's largest organised hitch-hiking event. They will be hitching from the UK to Morocco or Prague ...

Media release: Africa 2005: UK Teachers make a difference
15 July 2005
In the last few weeks all eyes have been on the powerful G8 word leaders and their decisions regarding aid, trade and debt relief for Africa ...

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