There’s something that usually always comes to mind when people hear sickle cell anemia. There are still a lot of people who believe those of us who live with sickle cell cannot live without blood transfusions and as such,…
African ChangeMakers Fellowship (ACFellowship) Cohort 2, 2018 Selected Applicants List. Congratulations to all selected applicants, more details will follow via email soon. View List at: http://africanchangemakers.org/…
The first step to creating your own job is to dream. Did you dream lately? Of course, every night! hahaha. But you need to use your imagination to start dreaming in the day also. Start cherishing some beautiful new situation…
Have you written your objectives? Good. Now that you have decided what area you will work on, I need to remind you that you will need to look at your resources to make things happen. Your plan needs to begin by allocating…
During September, which is considered Sickle Cell Awareness Month in most parts of the World, yours truly was busy behind the scenes doing all she could to raise awareness about sickle cell in line with the #BreakTheSilence…
When I entered the class, they were sure I was alive. When I was absent they were worried. When the class was over, they prayed for me. The prison became a safer place for me. I felt more secured and protected. In times of…
I am on a mission to educate and empower girls in rural communities. This, I do through offering scholarships to underprivileged girls and most importantly, creating what we call Girls' Lead Clubs in rural secondary school…
I am passion driven on my mission to break stereotypes about STEM education for girls. Last year in June during my digital action campaign entitled “Bring a Girl to STEM”, I launched a STEM Mentoring program for girls at…
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It feels good when you transform somebody's life positively and even best when you transfer life skills to undeserved humans. This has been my wonderful experience for the past months. We are now in the second phase of the…
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead African ChangeMakers Mentorship (ACMentorship2018) was a great success…
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…
Little did I know how true this above assertion is when I started Women Inspiration development Center 8 years ago? As the World Pulse Award Recipient of 2009 Voice of our future correspondence, I was qualified to attend…
It has been 2 months that I have been training 10 inmates on ICT Skills at the Bamenda Central Prison. As the main trainer assisted by one other direct collaborator, we have successfully ended the first phase of the Creative…
One of our cardinal objectives is to help both school girls and adolescent mothers gain economic power so they can stand tall against all form of pressures and intimidations to trade their bodies for money. This we…
During the past 3 months, some female leaders and parents in my community have taken time off their busy schedules to visit CYEED digital empowerment center for girls. http://www.cyeed.net/ “Bring a girl to STEM” is…
Life is great when we add a little sunshine and laughter to it. This is especially true for people living with sickle cell, especially the young ones who know more about pains, medications and hospital stays than more…
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…
Help Brazilian women to improve their lives through poetry. When I understood the dimension of the chaos that the pandemic caused by the Corona virus was causing in my life and in the lives of people with a risk profile due…
When I first chose and decided to help end child early and forced marriages in Tanzania especially among girls in Longido District, in Northern Tanzania; it was rather difficult to make the changes immediately but as a…