waste as a resource to get dignity What comes to mind if you think of a rag picker? A man, dirty, poorly clothed, roaming around to search for waste material in a pile of trash? However, in reality, most rag-pickers are women or young children who are hard-working to feed their families. Perumugai is a […]
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by Claude Angwere Azah On the 28th of March 2015, I was in Bamenda Town in the Northwest region of Cameroon at the Mankon-Ringway Rehabilitation Centre. The reason I was there, was to attend my regular counseling sessions on drug consumption and abuse. On my way out, I saw a young man lying on a
By Gautham NC When was the last time you saw a firefly? Where do they go? Where do they come from? Ever thought about it? It’s only during the dark, that we get a chance to see them, right? Their light isn’t that bright to erase the entire darkness and show us the path, but
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Advocacy for better access to mental health for the LGBTQIA+ community in Nepal. Bibek is an intersectional Queer youth activist and proud gay man, who grew up in a supportive family. However, he witnessed the plight of the LGBTQIA+ community within the society and realized that interventions are lacking when it comes to access to
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Oluwakemi’s life changed drastically after she turned blind at the age of 13. The world as she knew it changed and suddenly was not as easily approachable as she had thought. At the early stage of blindness, she experienced social exclusion which resulted in low self-esteem. Yet, her zeal to change the narrative led her
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Nduku has first-hand witnessed the consequences of the Anglo/ Francophone conflicts in Cameroon. One day coming back from school he was kidnapped by rebels, chained, and tortured. The culture of divide and this terrible experience inspired him to work on curbing hate culture and crimes towards youth. He became an advocate for peace, and through
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Eltrud Okeyo hails from Kisumu County in Western Kenya which borders Victoria Lake. Kisumu County has the third-highest rate of HIV/AIDS in all of Kenya. According to the International Center for Alleviation of Poverty, Inc., 22-25% of Kisumu’s population is HIV positive. A high number of the population has left behind many orphans and elderly
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from Sabriye Tenberken and Deepu Kiran Our thirteenth course, which we call “The green room”, has been running for a few weeks now. In television studios and theatres, the “green room” is the room where the performing “stars” can prepare themselves. And here, it is also a kind of preparation place before the rather intensive
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“Accessibility for the disabled can only be considered in times of peace. To survive during disasters, we have to be prepared beforehand to live under all thinkable circumstances.” – Nematullah Ahangosh. By Sabriye Tenberken I still remember the day our blind students returned somewhat confused from a city tour with the Lhasa Disability Bureau. The
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Abhijit Sinha is the creator of Project DEFY, which enables underserved communities to create an education for themselves, through self-learning spaces called Nooks. He believes that education should be brought back into the hands of the learners and the onus to choose what, when, and how they learn should be a decision left to them.
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