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Patience Dickson: A leading voice for women with diasbilities

Patience Ogolo Dickson is the founder of Advocacy for Women with Disability International (AWWDI), a Non Profit organization that promotes the rights of girls & women with disabilities. She hails from Delta state, Nigeria and is also living with a physical disability. Dickson has never let her disability stop her from charting a course to success or speaking out for women in a similar situation. Her quest to empower women and girls with disabilities and ensure an Inclusive development plan prompted her to create AWWDI in February 2009. Since its inception, Dickson has covered significant ground through various AWWDI programs such as skill acquisitions and empowerment for Women and Girls with Physical disabilities; Advocacy programs, ensuring inclusive representation on panels, committees, and human rights treaty bodies among others. The program has spread from Delta state, to Abia, and other south eastern states in Nigeria, while having its…

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My Dream Is To See the “Gender Agenda” Become a Thing of the Past- Mireille Karera

Will the “Gender Agenda” ever come to an end? Will global conferences required to raise awareness of gender violence ever come to an end? Will it ever be normal for women across the world to do whatever they want without any stigma or biased attachment? Mrs Mireille Karera, the CEO of Kora Associates, a firm that coaches individuals, businesses and communities shares her optimism that the “Gender Agenda” will become a thing of the past in her lifetime.

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7 Things

7 things you never knew your body could do

As humans, we all have different body forms and types, but certain things are common amongst humans. The human body is packed full of tricks that you did not know existed within. I found this piece from Lolwot about weird tricks the body can do. So sit back and enjoy 7 things you never actually knew your body could do. Super Hearing Say, you are at a noisy concert but you are trying to hear what your friend is saying. If you turn to listen to them with your right ear when they are talking, you will hear them better because the right ear is better at tracking active talking. However, if you are trying to figure out what song is playing, turn to the radio with your left ear toward it to be able to determine the song. This works this way because the different hemispheres of the brain…

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Girl Talk

Dad, Daughter and the Puberty talk

Oftentimes as parents, we find ourselves at a point where we have to broach the puberty topic with our kids and young ones. Many parents still find this an “uncomfortable” topic. I remember years back when I first started menstruating, all that talk was done by my mum; when going back to boarding school and we had to make a list of items we needed for school, we were made to take the list with the “girlies” (such as underwear, sanitary pads etc.) to my mum, while the other bulk was given to my dad. When I think back now, I wonder what would have happened if my dad had been a single parent with three adolescent girls. Dads sometimes feel that the puberty talk is for the woman to do, I know single dads that have had to ask their sister, or colleague to talk to their daughter about…

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