Unlike many people, I had a difficult take off. This made me to come to the conclusion that life may not hold beautiful experience for everybody on earth, most especially myself. Therefore, I cherished every little…
A divorce is not an end to a marriage. It’s the beginning of a life where people see you as a failure in all other aspects of your capability. Your conversations are cut in between, your points of view are overridden, easy…
" When we invest in women, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.“ - Melinda Gates This afternoon, I got a chance to meet some of the bravest and strongest women I know: mothers raising children with…
I joined high school in 2006 and one I thing I remember was how impolite people were with me, how they segregated me because of my size, how they treated me because of how I looked like. I do not know who defines beauty in…
My Dear Daughter, I never imagined that I would ever be a mom. Looking at the way my mother sacrificed everything for us when we growing up seemed like so much responsibility for one person. It terrified me so much because I…
Hi there am Esther Natukunda. I come from Jinja Uganda east Africa. Am a mother of 2 and I raise my children single handedly because we were abandoned while I was pregnant and with a one and two month old baby. Life was too…
The woman is the primary and often the only caregiver of children and elderly dependents at the household level; care work and constraints on her mobility imposed by family being the two ways patriarchy controls working…
Nippy air touching the chin, sky changing its colour, sudden thundering and lighting, whispering drops, crying clouds. Yes, my favourite days are back. It’s the monsoons that bless my state by stretching its hand across the…
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Today I know I can lay my heart in my hands, but for so many years I had been outsourcing my need of love, belonging, and appreciation because of my belief that the force that bestows these blessings is outside me and not…
I'm with a lovely gathering of women, and all of us are on a Blogathon — a blogging marathon. We were given prompts, and I'm choosing the one called 'Moments of Hope'. Why? Because hope is easy. Hope is hard to create — but…
Myth #1: Old age is synonymous with poor health. Busted : This stereotype perpetuates poor-quality medical care that disregards genuine symptoms of illness as inevitable effects of aging. In fact, socioeconomic standing and…
It was indeed a great day Friday 21st of February 2020 at Army Day Secondary School Bori Camp, Port Harcourt Rivers State. I educated the students on importance of tree planting, causes of climate change and how they can…
Covid -19 has become a household name globally. It didn't just come with a death certificate, it came with hunger, a tool of slow death. When the world was afraid of Covid 19 and running helter-skelter to stock up toilet…
A village woman in the hills of Noney in Manipur carries a cane basket ‘Kah’ on her head, collects vegetables and fruits from her farm or forest to sell in the main market on National Highway 37 and earns a petty income to…
Simple Things You Can Do To Support Gender Equality Gender equality means that men and women, boys and girls enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protection. In order to achieve an overall development of a…
Half of the population around the world comprises of women. Women with high economic potential are considered as independent and highly empowered. Do you think this is true? Can our well-being be explained just by having…
Suddenly you woke up in the middle of the night, you went to pee, when you went back to bed you couldn’t get back to sleep. You’ve started thinking about your work that needs to be done, things that you haven’t started yet,…
We may fight the coronavirus if we only keep in mind this World Pulse word:" We create greater impact together than alone". Yesterday I was explaining my sisters of our local NGO FEUPAS Grands Lacs on how the outbreak…
Often we are bogged down with the problems of life and the rush of our busy life. Often we don’t have time to sit down with our family or friends and talk about our problems. We are so caught up in work. We get so stressed,…
In times of crisis, let us lean in to hope instead of fear, unity instead of division. We all need to #HealAsOne . Someone remarked about the recent events that took place on our country, “What happened to Compassion?” . The…
At first I was hurt, then angry, then just disappointed. The women's snide remark shocked my 8th grade student during our annual fundraiser to study abroad. "I work every day and I haven't been to Europe," she said. The…
