Procrastination is a dangerous habit that causes setbacks and can result in frustration. Many people refer to procrastination as the thief of time, but procrastination does worse than time theft, it also kills goals.
According to experts in the medical field, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is a disorder characterized by muscle weakness and wasting (atrophy). This condition gets its name from the muscles that are affected most often: those of the face (facio-), around the shoulder blades (scapulo-), and in the upper arms (humeral). The signs and symptoms of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy usually appear in adolescence. Living with this disease just like with many other terminal diseases comes with huge challenges. In this article, we will be reading about a 34 year-old lady who suffers from this terrible disease together her mother and elder sister. Here is her story: My name is Daniela Chiriac. I am 34 years old, and a member of a family of three, including my mother and my elder sister. All of us are suffering from progressive muscular dystrophy. I was diagnosed with Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in 2010, after…
Paraguay’s Ministry of Education has banned public schools from using or spreading materials on “gender ideology,” a move critics say promotes discrimination toward women and LGBTQ people. At a press conference in September, Education Minister Enrique Riera said the government recognizes “traditional values” and the “traditional family,” consisting of “father, mother and children.” “We naturally respect different options, but we’re not going to instill them in our public schools,” Riera said, according to local newspaper ABC Color. Riera, who officially issued the ban in an Oct. 10 resolution, specifically called out as problematic material that stated: “gender is a social construct.” Under pressure from conservative groups, Riera also said in a speech on Oct. 5 that he would burn any books that spread “gender ideology.” SOMOSGAY, a Paraguayan LGBTQ advocacy organization, condemned the ban in a statement, adding that the term “gender ideology” was “invented by conservative groups to keep…
UNICEF Philippines and the global movement Nutrition International (NI), have begun a nationwide three-year initiative to reduce risks of maternal deaths for pregnant women and protect newborn babies from life-threatening diseases. Working with the Department of Health, the ‘Right Start Initiative’ will provide an iron folic acid supplement to pregnant and post-partum mothers, promote optimum iron-folic young child feeding practices, and provide micronutrient powder for 91,000 pregnant women and 142,000 children 6-23 months old. “UNICEF Philippines congratulates Nutrition International for the launch of this very important initiative. We welcome and recognise the ‘Right Start Initiative’ as a significant milestone that contributes to improving the nutritional status of Filipinos – especially the women and vulnerable children,” says Lotta Sylwander, UNICEF Philippines Representative. The initiative will cover 45 cities and municipalities nationwide. Of these, UNICEF will roll out the programme in five municipalities: Basud, Mercedes and Capalonga in Camarines Sur; Leon Postigo…
Campaigners during the International Day of Rural Women which held recently in Kenya, have said a new legislation should be enacted to eliminate institutional and cultural barriers that have denied rural women access to arable land. Naomi Lanoi, a gender rights campaigner with Kenya Land Alliance, said expanding access to land among rural women is key to tackling abject poverty and food insecurity in the country. “Rural women are intimately linked to land and their exclusion from access and ownership of this resource will negatively affect the production of staple food in the country,” said Lanoi in a commentary published by Sunday Nation. Kenyan campaigners marked the day of rural women with a call for enactment of global and domestic legal instruments that root for gender equality in land ownership. Lanoi regretted that despite the enactment of affirmative action policies and laws, Kenya is yet to bridge a glaring disparity…
Five Jordanian women participating in the TechWomen 17, the biggest gathering for women in technology in the world, held in the US, have won the first prize for the best technological project, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported on Tuesday. Participants said that the winning project was among 20 that were presented to a jury inclusive of Microsoft and other major companies in the Silicon Valley. Medical engineer and medical marketing expert Thilal Sharman said that it is the first time that a Jordanian and an Arab project wins the award. Ala Agha Karss, the founder and CTO of Superiors ICT, said that the project is called “Orphans in Jordan” and focuses on the low percentage of orphans going to university as a result of psychological and financial problems. Karss said that the project offered a way to address the problem through an electronic platform with the participation of Jordanian…
Growing up as a young girl, Asli Hassan Abade the first and only female pilot in the Somali air force, as well as the first female military pilot in Africa and in the Arab world, spent most of her childhood days watching airplanes take off and land at the Mogadishu airport. Asli was born on the first of January 1958, in Mogadishu, Somalia. She lived with her parents Hawa Aden and Hassan Abade and nine siblings in a house close to the Mogadishu airport. She grew up in a family with huge public service record most of which were high-positioned military officers, mostly before the civil war. With the unique dream of becoming a pilot, she was determined to pursue her passion until it became reality no matter what it might take. Apart from her little fantasies drawn from watching planes at the Mogadishu airport, the military influence in her…
