2010 INSP conference
 INSP's 15th annual conference took
place in Melbourne, Australia from the 17th
- 20th May, hosted by The Big Issue Australia. Read more. The
conference; 'Global
Collaboration, Real
Solutions', marked the start of exciting network-wide collaborations, through several new projects, including an advertising project and an international campaign to be launched in October. The full conference report is now available.
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Lord Provost Reception
 INSP's Patron, the Lord Provost of Glasgow Bob Winter,
hosted a second networking reception for INSP in Glasgow's City Chambers on Wednesday 5th May.
Around 70 guests attended, including key members of Scotland's business, media, charity
and government communities. Read more. Following the reception, INSP's
Executive Director has met with many of the guests directly and the INSP has
since received a financial donation from a well known Scottish company as well
as gifts in kind from The City Inn Hotel (Glasgow), The Crowne Plaza Hotel (Glasgow)
and journalism training opportunities from The Herald and Times group.
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New staff at INSP
 INSP has recently
hired Sven Mangels (pictured) as the new Regional Training and Development
Manager (Africa) who will officially start with INSP next week in Cape Town. Sven, MBA, is a social
entrepreneur from Hamburg, Germany who set up his own
social enterprise and also has a history with the street paper movement having
served as an INSP intern in 2005. Sven will be employed by INSP, with support
from the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), to provide support and build the
capacity of the six existing street papers in Africa
and look to launch a new street paper in the region. He will join the African
street-paper network's regional co-ordinator Samba Yonga (The Big Issue Zambia) and representatives from the five other
papers in South Africa
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INSP journalism training in Africa
 As part of the
UNDEF-funded project in Africa, special media and journalism trainings are
currently taking place at all of the six street papers, provided by regional
offices and trainers of Inter Press Service and Reuters. Thanks to both
organisations for their input, experience and support. |
Latin America
 INSP is currently
carrying out a needs assessment in Latin America, to establish how INSP can support individual street papers and establish a regional network. INSP's Executive
Director, also met with Brazilian
street paper representatives during the INSP conference
about the next steps for this project. INSP also met
with potential new street paper founders in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as well as
the Director of regional NGO network, 'ONGnet' to help build
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Donate online
 Make a difference today by donating online to INSP. Your donation will enable us
to provide much needed employment, training and support to people who,
in many cases, have no other means to survive. Your support could help
to feed families in Kenya or provide warm winter clothes to homeless
vendors in St Petersburg.
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Support us
If you would like to support INSP's projects and ensure our continuing success, please visit our corporate sponsorship page and find out more about our individual projects.
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Book a hotel
 Book
your hotels through us and help fight poverty. Hotels4Change a
collaboration between INSP and Booking.com, Europe's leading online
hotel provider. On every online hotel reservation that is booked
through Hotels4Change, approximately 5% of the total amount is
transferred to the INSP, at no extra cost to the customer! Book now!
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In kind support
You
can also support INSP or your local street paper in other ways. If you
have time to spare, equipment that you would like to donate or
expertise to share, please contact us.
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