Destination Prestige
Destination Prestige is a platform for Francophone Academic and Cultural exchange. This includes Debate, Reports, News, Open Microphone, and Forum in a two hour adventure — The Destination Wednesdays 12p – 2 p IS Prestige!
Hosted by Jean-Marc Akakpo.
Bonne fete de Saint Valentin a tous.
Destination Prestige wishes all ladies a Happy Valentine’s Day. Turn Your Lights down Low, and let your heart love and be loved. Let your heart enjoys someone telling it I love you. Do not, for any reasons, close your heart to the smell of flowers, and warm of arms [...]
Posted February 14, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
Hope for Haiti,
According the United Nations and their partners on the ground, emergency relief supplies are flowing smoothly in Haiti.
The UN humanitarian agency (OCHA), says there is a need to increase the provision of sanitation facilities and provide some 25,000 toilets for half a million people in the capital, Port-au Prince.
On the nutrition front, [...]
Posted February 5, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
On Destination Prestige this week
On Destination Prestige this week, Jean-Marc will receive this Wednesday, February 03, 2010 from 12 to 2 PM in the first part of the show, Madam Christy Belbey, French Teacher, and French Club and French Honor Society from Dacula High School in Gwinnett County to talk about the “French Immersion Camp” [...]
Posted February 1, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
Tomorrow in Destination Prestige
Another exiting week with Destination prestige; tomorrow the president of the French Club of the Kennesaw State University will be the show’s guest. Madam Mallory Brewer, Features Editor- the Sentinel and President of KSU French Club will talk to us about the French club, its different activities, and who can join the [...]
Posted January 26, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
Destination Prestige Politics
According to UN Radio that we have listen to this morning, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is reported to have said that Haitians are the sons and daughters of Africa because the country was founded by slaves including some believed to have come from Senegal. The country’s envoy to the United Nations Ambassador [...]
Posted January 19, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige, Politics
The spontaneous mobilization for Haiti
This year started with some really bad news. After the attack of the Togolese football team in Angola, an Earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale has visited Haiti, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. The image of the disaster is not easy to watch. A week later, the [...]
Posted January 19, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
I was hoping to start this New Year 2010 with good news from Africa, but, it does not happen. I am in shock as well as the rest of the world to hear that a National Soccer team from Togo, West Africa, was attacked on its way to the Africa Cup of Nations competition in [...]
Posted January 11, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
A new year equals new form of Destination Prestige. In this year, our production will focus on four different programs:
Our first focus is to involve different high schools, colleges and universities in the city of Atlanta in our interactive French learning project. We will do this with the program “open microphone”, giving students a chance [...]
Posted January 5, 2010 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
Reconnecting Flood-Plains to rivers will help reduce the risk of future flooding. According to a study by US researchers, “allowing these areas to be submerged during storms would reduce the risk of flood damage in nearby urban areas.” We all remember the scary images of flooding here America. Based on the new research, “pressure to [...]
Posted December 29, 2009 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige
The HealthCare Reform finally passed.
After a long and tiring session, the US Senate passes landmark healthcare reform bill. The moment is historical since the last time the senate held Christmas Eve session remounted back in 1963. The bill aims to cover 31 million uninsured Americans and could lead to the biggest change in USA healthcare [...]
Posted December 24, 2009 by jmakakpo in Blogs, Destination Prestige, Politics