Every achivement in this world was first projected as a creative idea.The idea,faith and the means of implementing the idea.Having had a complicated childhood that spread over to my adulthood,i had to look for an idea that…
Kenya is an amazing lovely country.I am looking for my sisters and brothers on World Pulse.I am thinking of a World Pulse County get together one day.Comment with your suggestions below. Thank you very much for reaching out.…
It may still be a month ahead, but I am already giving a lot of thought to Earth Day. I have been thinking about what I can do this year to contribute and honor the natural world around me. So often I find myself feeling…
Hello people I'm from the Anglophone region of Cameroon where violence againts women and girls is very common and me been a victim and survivor of violence I am here to say no to violence.
A cold dreary day in December of 1995, I was working at a school board office as a janitor. A board director who often worked late apparently took notice of how clean I kept the facility. One evening he said to me, "You pay…
I grew up and went all the way through school without a computer. No TV before I was six years old. No cell phone. No Wifi. Typewriters had inky ribbons, but then the electric typewriter came in. How smooth and easy, even…
This is a manual cover page from the Government and Church in 1916 on how to kidnap Indigenous children from their parents by removing their culture, language, and identity and assimilating them into the dominant culture. "…
HOPELESSNESS This morning was strange, filled with pain. The air smelled hopelessness and disarray. My eyes refused to dry, tear overflowed my cheeks. My chest pained and my eyes burst with agony and pain. I tried to look…
We went to the graveyard to bury a young child last week. Surrounding us were graves of babies who had only "survived"-a day...a week...a year. It made me so sad to realise how fleeting life is. It is just but a wind,here…
I am a software engineer but I dont care about what I am working towards with my job. I build web applications for other peoples’ businesses. Currently I am building a health and wellness website for a company that also…
I LOVE YOU O’KASHMIR I never knew I love you so much. Until on August 5, I lost you. When I was caged inside my house. When I was deprived of fresh and free air. When I had nothing to fill my belly. When my heart felt the…
WAKE UP BEFORE I CEASE TO EXIST Wake up people, as I am dying. Speak up, as my speech is impeded. Give me food, as I am hungry. Set me free, as I am confined. Look at my bruises, as I am bleeding. Look at my eyes, as pellets…
Theme: Indigenous women and natural resources Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo The Pride Inn, Hotel, Raphta Road, Westlands, Nairobi- Kenya From September 8 to 12, 2019 Dear participants in the conference (In your…
12 year old Shreya, my granddaughter, living in the US was very excited when she heard about the Barbie dolls theme of Bridge the Dream Gap where girls are encouraged to fulfill their dreams of becoming pilots, space people…
I have worked with multi cultural groups since 1977 and have discovered a common link in these groups. poverty. violence and injustice. I have witnessed this and also experience these issues which plague all of us in society…
Have you ever stopped to think about the possibility, the possibility, just throwing it out there, that you actually married the wrong person? Or that you might have married the right person but at the wrong time in your…
I am an educationist, women's rights and interfaith harmony builder in Pakistan. When I was 13 I had to face religious discrimination in my school for my Christian faith therefor I left the school and made my own school in…
A lot of times people approach me with the sole purpose of giving me several reasons why I do not fit into the Nigeria system with the impact I make towards others. . "Why not go to the United States or Europe to do what you…
(Dr. Chemtai Mungo (center) at a registered nurse training at Kisumu County Hospital) Dr. Chemtai Mungo’s story is one of inequality as both a challenge and an inspiration. She grew up in the small town of Kitale in rural…
Dear Young Girl, From the moment you were born, they spread your legs to define who you are, weakness or strength will be announced to those who have been eagerly awaiting your arrival. "It's a girls" these words sound like…
Every 16 hrs a woman is shot and killed by an intimate partner in the United States. Gun violence has been deemed a "public health crisis" by the American Medical Association. America needs better research into gun safety…
While working in Mwenga territory, as World Pulse Ambassador, I spent my day today at the presentation of World Pulse to the women of a virtually isolated village called "Kwangambwa" in the territory of Mwenga in the…
I'm a United States citizen. I didn't do anything to earn it, didn't have to travel to get here. I have a small, modest, but comfortable home, large enough for my family of four. I call it small by American standards, but I'…
I would like to see a Violent Free Environment for Aboriginal Women of Canada! I grew up with racism, conflict, and corralled on a reserve. A reserve is for wild-life, to protect and preserve, yet it feels more like a…
A few months after I set foot into activism, I wrote to a very close friend and asked if they would be willing to support me in my work against gender-based violence. The email I sent my friend was lengthy, and described my…
