It’s pretty easy for a person to reach their elastic limit and not be able to stretch their mind and body to do more, but as volunteers and humanitarians, it’s inevitable that we will go beyond our elastic limit to continue the good work we’ve already started. What drives us, you ask? As a non-governmental […]
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Hate speech and spreading rumours are among the most effective ways to destroy a person’s self-esteem. Studies show that a percentage of suicides are due to cyberbullying, where the person involved is overwhelmed by the hate speech and threats and decides to silence it all by dying. In most cases, these bullies use digital technologies
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Raising awareness is the process of informing or educating people about a pressing issue or something you care about. The goal of raising awareness about an issue is to draw attention to it and gain emotional support for the cause; in other cases, it is to correct a prejudice or biased opinion. Awareness-raising is one
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In Nigeria, students have been risking their lives for an education. Like in most parts of the world, schooling comes with its fair share of challenges but when students risk losing their freedom or lives at school, our tomorrow is under attack. Where going to school is tantamount to charging into battle amid a swarm
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Just as the saying goes that small drops of water soon fill an ocean, so too do small acts of kindness have a ripple effect. From the coins you drop into a beggar’s plate on your way to work, to the helping hands you extend to strangers, to the donations you make to your local
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Dahuru Abdulhamid, a visually impaired teacher in Kano State, has received automatic employment as a teacher from the state government after seven years of volunteer service. Abdulhamid offered to volunteer to teach at a community school in his area, where he teaches English and government. Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje offered him automatic employment
Life has never been fair to Jane. Losing her parents just a few months after her birth was a terrible fate, and so as a child, she knew only the four walls of the orphanage where she grew up. It had been her home since birth, and now that she was 18, she had to
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The government deserves praise for funding and promoting free education in the country, which in turn has increased the number of children going to school and the number of vulnerable and disabled children. HakiElimu Executive Director John Kalage said in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl
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Trauma comes in different forms and affects people differently. But there is a side of trauma that is usually overlooked: This type of trauma does not affect individuals, but groups, people who have experienced the same traumatizing event. This type of trauma is called COLLECTIVE TRAUMA because it affects a large number of people who
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UNITED NATIONS, New York – Digital technologies are fueling explosive growth, innovation, and connectivity around the world. But these tools are also creating new kinds of inequalities. Adolescent girls are less likely to use the Internet; in some countries, boys are four times more likely than girls to use the Internet. Girls are also less
