All teachers know that children are the future of any country's success. It is no different for African children. Their education is key to future economic growth and lasting democracy, leading to greater stability and improved standards of living. The current state of education in Africa, however, is plagued by a lack of funds, teachers, textbooks, and equipment.

In truth, what gives teachers the most pleasure is seeing their children learn. That's why ethical, charity gifts work so well and have become so popular in recent years.

Are you thinking of buying your child's teacher an end-of-term gift? Instead of giving unwanted gifts that inevitably just end up cluttering the teachers desk, why not give a charity gift? These ethical charity gifts make the perfect end-of-term gift for your child's teacher.

Why not buy your teacher an ethical gift this summer and invest in the future of a poor country at the same time? Currently, 45 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa don’t get the chance to go to school. Primary school enrollments and literacy rates in Africa are among the lowest in the world. Many children cannot afford to go to or stay in primary school.

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband urged people to continue to fight for climate justice at a rally at the weekend, stressing the public’s influence over international green policies.

Aid agencies have attacked a 'Green Paper' on International Development issued by the Conservative Party yesterday as having "glaring omissions" and "blind spots".

Almost three quarters (72 per cent) of British men and women want to see poverty ended in their life time, says a poll commissioned by international development agency Christian Aid.

Tearfund said that like the G8, the seventeen nations that form the Major Economies Forum (MEF) have been “adopting a strategy of deferral and delay”.

G8 leaders must demonstrate much greater political courage on climate change or they will condemn yesterday's Major Economies Forum declaration to being little more than hot air, Christian Aid has warned.

G8 leaders are in danger of squandering opportunities and plunging poor people into deeper climate chaos and poverty, the aid and development agency Tearfund has said.

As world leaders begin meeting in Italy, the aid agency World Vision has accused them of failing to honour aid pledges to the world’s poorest countries.

The G8 group of the world’s richest nations is a dinosaur which should be put out of its misery, the British anti-poverty War on Want said yesterday.

Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical on globalisation, economics and poverty must set the tone for a new approach to global development which ensures dignity for all people and long-term environmental sustainability, says Progressio.

The impact of climate change in poor countries is leading to a shift in seasons that is destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger according to a new report