The Scanlon Foundation’s annual community grants round for 2019 will fund projects that demonstrate their contribution to social cohesion by: a) Building pathways to employment; or b) Increasing applied English literacy.…
The fund works to support one-off, small scale activities that tackle issues that matter to the region. Collaborate Pacific: a) is a ‘reimbursable fund’: successful applicants´ payment is made at the conclusion of the event…
One of my blind student quoted this proverb in today’s counselling session. I asked, what does it mean to him? He told that he share his happiest and funny moments with other people in the world, but he never share his…
Welcome to Shisha 101! This short blog is where you will learn the basics of that tobacco that you smoke, probably without second guessing any of the risks. Knowledge is power and knowing the fundamentals of shisha will…
Children of Conflict: Syria to Kashmir Sumera B. Reshi According to the UNICEF, childhood is the time for children to be in school and at play, to grow strong and confident with the love and encouragement of their family and…
hello everybody!!! children, i was grown up by a brave, passionate tropical courageous woman. at 7 my father passed away. only my life , being recognition goes only toward my pure and humble mother. to the same women who…
Can I Ever Meet You Again Dad? A Conversation between me and my Mirror Me: Have you ever been uncertain of tomorrow, I asked the mirror? Mirror: I see tomorrow as you want me to look. Like your Kashmir, I have no choice. I…
World Pulse began with a dream of this visionary woman who dared to listen to women's imprisoned voices more than the noises of the status quo. We are surely grateful that Jensine took hold on her dream and birthed it into a…
This is link to my first book i poems... https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07V1XXZSB?#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_fea... https://www.amazon.com/dp/10802 68111/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?k Cold December In cold December here I woke up I saw…
Concentration Camp called Kashmir Sumera B. Reshi A few months ago, I read about the atrocities of the Nazi regime that during the first six years of their tenure how Hitler and his cohorts detained thousands of Germans and…
This pain sucked all my blood. This pain parched all my tears. Deep, profound and cavernous pain. Strange, weird and unexpected pain. Baffling, mysterious and unresolved pain. Never did I witness such a pain. It is something…
The soil around my soul Take me as a whole The heart is full of pain Your no attack is in vain While killing my race Put yourself in my place When you shoot bullets No gun asks you first How many have you sent They were too…
I Appeal to the Civilized World to Save Kashmir from Forced Occupation of Kashmir. Since the last 12 days, Kashmir is in the siege. There is a complete communication blackout from India. O' civilized world have mercy on my…
Beyond gender, beyond humanity. What’s more human? She carries the shame of a mauled vagina. He, blood between his legs, the loss of masculinity in his head. Invasion. Torture. Rape. Has no gender. Often, the most important…
"If you can't feed a hundred people, just FEED one. "---Mother Teresa We think at times that all the world's weight are upon our shoulders.... we complain, trash, and hurdle angry words at it. Wishing somebody would take…
I am Kashmir, secluded and chained. I was a paradise now I am surrounded in uncertainty. My inhabitants are pushed to a dark bend of no return. The murky nights persist casting its vicious spell on its people. And morning…
I Reject Forced Occupation of Kashmir. I am in chains, I have been locked. I am Gaza, I am Kashmir. My days are dark, my nights horrific. My sunshine is dim, my rain poisonous. My happiness has been grilled, my people…
I WISH, I CAN... My nights are lonely, bizarre and horrible. I don’t know what shall be next. Never have I been so desperate as I am now. My people are locked like a dump flock of sheep. As if even the wind stopped to travel…
Sumera B. Reshi I called my father and I asked about his well-being. Recently, my father was diagnosed with some ailments and the doctor was monitoring his heart rhythms so that he can find out the actual cause of the…
How can the World Pulse Global Community re-start the difficult conversations on the issues of #safespaces and #EndingRape Culture? On the homefront in the Philippines, in the wake of the baring of a young woman's story of…
In the wake of the stories of sexual assault of a young Filipina writer at a national writers workshop, social media was abuzz. Three writers who are colleagues of the alleged perpetrator wrote notes on their Facebook…
This is an update on the incident of sexual assault at a national writers workshop in the Philippines. About 800 writers and cultural workers have signed an Open Letter to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (…
Earlier this week, a young writer in the Philippines, bared her soul in a social media post, about an act of violence against her at a national writers workshop. https://web.facebook.com/notes/tiny-diapana/breaking-the-quiet…
