GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND COVID 19 PANDEMIC For how long do we face such challenges? Why do women have to go through violence, abuse and all that? These are questions that kept running through my mind every single day. I am…
In March I organised a workshop to train 20 girls with hearing impairment on using digital tools such as Facebook, WhatsApp status and labels to sell products as a way of enhancing their economic empowerment. 20 girls were…
it would be some time before they could really walk again their steps grew smaller their legs sluggish, waterlogged it was easier to fold them up, tuck them away under their bodies it was better for nesting anyway for it was…
Robbing me of solitude Maya accompanies me tonight High on hopes smoking our thoughts we weave an ideal world Shed everything borrowed she tells me, welcome authenticity anew your being.
I watched him break, As biscuit snaps at a crack, He broke into total oblivion, As the joyful voices of their love, Danced around ecstatic, They smiled at the presence of their Earthly folds, Withholding the pains of hidden…
She was introduced to me by my immediate elder sister about 7 years ago. She was shy, quiet and preferred to be alone. I knew that she needed a friend, and I decided to move closer to her from that day on. Her name is…
When I was 6 years old, I witnessed the first time, the cause of the screaming I had previously heard at night when I was pretending to be asleep. I saw my mom’s head hit the floor so hard that I feared she might not get up…
After a long while, I got to be the Executive Producer of another #ThrivingThursday with my ambassador sisters! It was a beautiful way to come back to engaging each Thursday and I couldn't have asked for better. With Anjana…
Food for thought in this trying times. "if you loose money you loose much, if you loose friends you loose more, if you loose faith you loose all" "The hand that wipes your tears when you fail is much more important than the…
2020 has been an extraordinary year; I would have never in my wildest dream imagined the plausibility or effect of COVID-19. For instance, international borders closing, airports shut down, flights cancelled. The busy and…
Last week, I watched a discussion among some group of people about genotype compatibility and possible solutions to incompatibility on a reality show about finding love. They suggested that the genotype of an embryo with…
My dear sisters, as 2020 was a challenging year for most of us here and others outside the world Pulse community, 2021 should be a prosperous year for us. Some of us here had lost hopes due to the failures that we…
The theme for this year's International Womens' Day is 'Be bold for change' and for me, this holds a lot of hope. Women around the world are beginning to wake up to the realization that silence has not and will never help…
This story was first published on SheThePeopleTV In late March, I was in New York City for the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). My Kenyan friend Jaki Mathaga, who is mother to a 12-year-old boy with Autism, and…
I wondered when watching the news and a child was found murdered or kidnapped. I often thought to myself ‘ How do the parents survive that, having raising, feeding, clothing, teaching and loving a child so much for someone…
The state of public health in Bangladesh has made considerable progress through The First Five Year Plan (1973-78). It highlighted the importance of building a network of health facilities - a hospital in every district, in…
HIV patients especially in Sub-Saharan Africa go through various forms of stigma. Two main types of stigma have been identified, internal and external stigma. External stigmas work through people avoiding contact and not…
Stan Lee, the visionary comic-book writer and publisher behind Marvel Comics, and a 71-year-old Burundian refugee named Bernice have something in common. They are both victims of elder abuse. Last month, Lee’s former manager…
|The words of this letter is a prayer for the girl that dwells within, for the girls that came before us and for those who shall come after us. Please pause and allow yourself to receive through these words. May you be…
My another nomination for the Spirit Award to Celine Osukwu. I found her very courageous and inspiring women. She is focusing on the most vulnerable group i.e women with disabilities to live a life of integrity in society.…
La menstruation demeurant encore un sujet tabou dans nos sociétés, il est capital de pouvoir démystifier cette croyance selon laquelle le flux menstruel est quelque chose d’impur, ce qui fait que le monde féminin est en…
I am called Wukwen Destiny Muluh, I am from Cameroon. My journey began when I met my mentor Mr. Vianney Forewah and we had a discussion meeting in which he introduced me into world pulse. He told me that this platform will…
Your mind holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation, and is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions. If only minds could be read by everyone, only then would…
Note: This article is not written by me but I found it is critically important for women to know that digital literacy is incomplete unless awareness on cyber safety is practiced by us and non-adherence can have life…
When we talk about change, the instantaneous vision zoom towards our ecosystem (duh, the place you’re co-habiting with million other species, psst who’re dying btw) a small disorder in the deck of cards, the mild dew…