Experts have said that mentorship for young girls and the youths as a whole is an important factor in grooming responsible citizens who will in the near future take up leadership positions. This can be done through training, skill acquisition and empowerment programs and tailored mentorship programs.
Rising figures of people living with HIV/AIDS has for some time been a huge source of concern for governments of developing nations, health workers and well-meaning individuals. As part of efforts towards fighting this disease which has become a menace to society, the Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) was formed. OALFA has left no stone unturned in seeking new methods through which HIV/AIDS and other related diseases can be reduced to the barest minimum.
One of the major issues militating against the active participation of women in social and corporate activities across developing nations has to do with cultural norms which see the woman as a caregiver with no place in the corporate world. For those women who have dared to choose career paths, they are usually faced with the challenges of being a success in the corporate world and caring for their families. However, women have been encouraged to brace up and do more in order to be an all-round success.
Success is undoubtedly one of the major things in the world that everyone desires. Just like the men, women desire success in career, business, and even in their homes. However, there is always the question as to what one can do to be a success story. Amongst other things, team effort has been listed as one of the keys to success.
“If we march the long road to freedom in hatred, what we find at the end is not freedom but another prison.” — Aung San Suu Kyi “I think the truth of the matter is, people who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love and it just so happens that they are the first to do it.” ..Condoleezza Rice Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard. Serena Williams
Every woman is a rare gem, every woman is special, and every woman has something to offer to her society, it all depends on her (personal) determination and her belief. Does she see herself as incompetent, unqualified, impotent, and unfitted? Or does she considers herself as perfect, able, skilled, gifted, and available irrespective of background or circumstances that may be standing as a stumbling block? Ghulam Sughra Solangi, a light to the women community of Pakistan was born on March 2, 1970, in a little village called Muhammad Arab Solangi, somewhere in Pakistan. Although her father Muhib Ali was a teacher in a government school, Solangi did not have access to schooling based on the local traditional belief that bans females from seeking for education. She wanted to school, she held a strong attraction for education but she was bound by laws which she could not break free from. At…
Everyday, the world moves a step ahead to get more and more digitalized than ever before. Some parents have said that handling a teenage child is more difficult since the inception of social media and other digital devices. There is no doubting the fact that the teenage mind moves as fast as digitalization itself while picking both the negative and positives of a moving world. In the same vein, parents have grown too busy to attend to the needs of there children and so are most of the times unaware of happenings in their children’s lives that are capable of steering them towards depression. This has become an issue of concern to most parents as they seek for suitable methods to instill character and discipline in their teenagers. Below are seven facts every should understand about their teenage children in a digitalized world. Communication is vital but it could become…
