All around the world, December 1st is marked as World Aids Day, it is a day set aside to reawaken the awareness for the deadly disease called HIV. This year’s theme was chosen to educate people on the fact that the social stigma attached to Aids is hurtful and further deteriorates the carrier’s health either […]
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Verbal Abuse We should all know that there is never a sufficient excuse for abuse and that the victim is never to blame. The most common and under-reported form of abuse is verbal abuse. Victims of verbal abuse rarely talk about what they are going through because society often forces them to keep quiet about
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If there be a time when all will be well with the world, then the change starts with you, and me. This year’s 16 days of Activism against gender-based violence kick-started on the 25th of November and will run till the 10th of December the main reason for this is to create awareness on the
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Not ignoring violence against women is a primary human right, and adequate measures must be taken to ensure that women can live their lives free from violence of any kind. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed on November 25, aims to draw attention to the fact that violence against women
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is female circumcision – a ritual practice practiced in several countries as a rite of passage for women, in which a woman’s external genitalia are removed. FGM is most prevalent in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. More than 200 million women have undergone this procedure today. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗼Togo, a West
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Rural communities remain isolated from the outside world because they have limited means of electronic information dissemination.If such access were provided, it could somewhat improve their connection to the ever-changing world. There are reasons why this Internet access is uncommon in rural areas. These include the lack of adequate infrastructure to house and power, another
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Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. ( Nelson Mandela) This quote right here explains just how important education is and the role it plays in giving power to those who in ignorance would have been away from the light of knowledge. In most third-world countries, not everyone is
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted schools and universities across the world. UNESCO figures state that the worldwide average time lost due to COVID-19 related school closures has been two-thirds of an academic year. This situation has been the most acute in Latin America and the Caribbean, where five months have been lost and three out
𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮: The Cost of Covid – What Happens When Children Don’t Go to School Read More »
Martha was a happy type, there was no chance she would be caught sad or sitting in one place. Others her age and even older would have shrunk under the weight of the trauma she experienced as a teenager, but not Martha, who wore her scars proudly to show the world that no matter how
Habiba was fortunate to be one of the few girls in the village of Kolkana to receive a scholarship that covered both her high school and college education. Becoming one of the awardees out of 1,000 girls was no easy task, but as a smart and hardworking girl, she passed the placement test and made
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