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The Dialysave: An Amazing Health Care Innovation by Anya Pogharian

Anya Pogharian, an 18 year old Armenian Teen, Living in Montreal Canada, developed the Dialysave, a portable, dialysis machine which costs $500, against the conventional $30,000 machines, currently in use around the world. Anya Pogharian She told Fortune Magazine that the Dialysave started as a science fair project, inspired by her time working at a local hospital’s dialysis unit, Anya was shocked at the huge cost of the conventional dialysis machines. Anya developed the $500 dialysis machine (Dialysave), a project on which she spent 300 hours, 30 times the required hours for her science project. The Dialysave has captured the attention of major international figures such President Bill Clinton and the Cleveland Clinic. Anya stated that she set her sights on inventing a cheap and portable dialysis machine, and making it accessible to people in developing countries. Though she’s still too young for med school, Anya might just transform the dialysis process…

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Girl Talk

Girl’s Talk: Fostering a healthy relationship between sisters

For many parents and guardians, cultivating close relationships between their kids ranks amongst their greatest concerns. We all dream of having kids who enjoy being in the company of one another, and have each other’s back. Oftentimes, this is not the case. We ask ourselves, what are we doing wrong? Why can’t they just get along? Siblings are bound to fight, argue, and compete, but at what point does it become unhealthy? What steps can we take as parents to foster a healthy relationship between siblings? Here, Lucinda Rosenfeld, the Author of “The Pretty One”, (A novel that explores the relationship of three sisters) highlights 10 important tips for raising sisters that get along. Don’t compare your daughters’ achievements, however small — e.g. “Penelope ate all her peas. Why didn’t you?” Don’t compare the big victories, either — i.e. “Your sister managed to get all A’s and still find time…

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Impact Inspire

Violet Chanya- Making a Difference for Widows and Orphans

Margaret Ngugi Violet Chanya was born in 1949, in the rural Kisorongonyi Village, the semi- arid area of  Taita Taveta County in Kenya. Taita Taveta is plagued by malnutrition and deaths due to AIDS thus the high prevalence of orphans. This has also resulted in many cases of widowed women who work twice as hard to support their children. Unfortunately those who are married still work as hard because many men engage in drinking illicit brews. She schooled to primary level 3 because her father believed girls should not be educated but should rather take care of the goats and assist in home chores and farming. Despite this, she is a firm believer in empowering young girls through education and widows through farming by donating seeds to them and teaching them nutritional values of growing their food. In 2004, she began Mvono Community Centre (MCC) to take care of orphans…

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Ertharin Cousin: On a Mission to end the World’s Hunger

Ertharin Cousin Executive Director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin is the 12th Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. She was born in 1957 and raised alongside her three sisters in Lawndale, a poor neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother worked in social services, while her father engaged in volunteer community development work. Cousin started her high school education in 1971 at the Lane Technical High School, Chicago, among the first female freshmen and sophomores to be admitted at the school. Lane Technical was rated among the top high schools in Chicago at the time and admitted all male students, prior to the fall of 1971. Cousin graduated in from High School in 1975. She proceeded to the University of Illinois Chicago, where she earned a B.A Degree in 1979. Cousin also studied international law at the University of Georgia School of Law where completed a…

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Business Clinique

Turning Undecided Business Dreams into Future Success

By: Lahle Wolfe

Even the most motivated women entrepreneurs can struggle with deciding on the right business idea. For some budding entrepreneurs, ideas flow freely but never get off the ground. For others, ideas are vague and sketchy so are discarded and never fully explored. Deciding on the right business idea has as much to do with creating a business plan and feasibility study as it does doing some soul searching.

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Reiko Abe: The Face of Japan’s Globalisation

By: Natalie Obiko Pearson Reiko Abe became a civil engineer in Japan, but she couldn’t find a job. An ancient Shinto superstition, made part of Japan’s labor law, held that if a woman entered a tunnel under construction, she would anger the jealous mountain goddess and cause worker accidents. Two decades later, Abe has become the face of Japan’s global engagement as the nation seeks to overcome its image as an economic laggard and a wasteland for career women. Television advertisements featuring her have run on CNN and the BBC. She’s been lauded by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (no relation) for showcasing Japan’s strengths abroad and symbolizing why the country needs to promote more women in a workforce where less than 5 percent of managers are female. The irony is that Abe, 51, had to leave Japan. After overseeing construction safety on Indian metro projects for seven years, she’s been…

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