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All Women Recycling

All Women Recycling is a small a women-led social enterprise created by Lynn Worsley, in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. It was inspired by the desire to create a sustainable and profitable business, promote environmental sustainability and provide a safe place to nurture women through skills, education and empowering project through recycling and product development. The enterprise turns discarded plastic soft-drink bottles into beautiful upcycled, decorative gift boxes. Lynn intended to find a practical and sustainable way of keeping the country and its communities free of the thousands of discarded plastic soft-drink bottles that litter the environment.  She set up the enterprise with the end goal of creating high quality, upcycled products using these discarded plastic bottles as materials, which would in turn benefit the environment and empower local women in the communities. This resulted in the production of the beautiful kliketyklikbox™, a versatile and trendy, yet…

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Jawaher Al Qasimi Chosen as Patron of Global Movement ‘Jeans for Refugees’

Jeans for Refugees (JFR), a global initiative to raise funds for refugees worldwide, has chosen H.H. Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of H.H. the Ruler of Sharjah, Chairperson of NAMA Women Advancement Establishment, and the Eminent Advocate for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as the project’s patron, in recognition of her efforts in making the world a better and more secure place for refugees. Internationally-acclaimed fashion designer and artist Johny Dar launched JFR as a global artistic collaboration dedicated to helping refugees. With A-list stars that include Ryan Gosling, Victoria Beckham, Benicio Del Toro, Sir Elton John, Claudia Schiffer, Eva Longoria, Kate Moss, Pink, Rachel McAdams, Sharon Stone and many others, the JFR initiative has inspired 100 international celebrities to donate a pair of jeans in solidarity with refugees. The garments will be redesigned by Dar and then auctioned, with the proceeds from the…

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Happenings

Guyana Prime Minister Orders Pregnant TV Anchor Reinstated

A news anchor on a state-run TV station in Guyana who said she was removed from her position because she is pregnant is being reinstated thanks to the prime minister of the South American country. Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo directed the National Communications Network late Wednesday to put Natasha Smith back on the air and told the CEO to apologize to her. “I am in no doubt that the removal of Ms. Smith was due to her state of pregnancy, and that the act is an attack on her as a woman and as a professional journalist,” Nagamootoo, whose Cabinet duties include responsibility for the government communications, said in a statement. Smith said camera operators were initially directed to hide her pregnancy from viewers. She said later she was told by supervisors that she was being removed from her news-reading duties at the direction of CEO Lennox Cornette. The…

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Impact Inspire

Caroline Boudreaux: A Rural Diamond helping Orphaned Children in India

Caroline Boudreaux was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1972. She was born into a very loving and supportive home, the youngest of nine children. Boudreaux graduated from the Louisiana State University, where she earned a degree in Psychology. She is married to Ed Goble, and she had a career as an account executive with a TV station in Austin, Texas until 2000. At 28, Boudreaux and a friend traveled around the world on a vacation. While in a small village in India, the two women met a young boy, and out of compassion, her friend had sponsored the little boy. They witnessed first-hand how far her donations went to help the child and his family, and few days later, they were invited to the home of a local family that had taken in several orphaned children, but they could have never prepared for what they witnessed. In Boudreaux’s words to…

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Girl Talk

Lying Teens

A Research conducted at Penn State University by Dr Nancy Darling, revealed that over 96% of teenagers tell lies.  There were 36 potential topics presented in the study, and it was discovered that the average teen lies to their parents about 12 of them. Such topics include: completing their homework, what music they listen to, drinking alcohol, how they spend afternoons, drug use, whether a party is being supervised, riding in a car driven by a drunk teen, what they spend their allowance on, whether they are dating or not, the clothes they wear when out of the home, the movie they’re seeing, and who they spend time with. It is almost inevitable that at some point, your teenager has told you lie. In this section, Anne Krueger discusses some of the reasons, teenagers lie to their parents, How parent’s should respond when their child lies, When parent’s should…

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Mums & Kids Zone

Spirited Toddler

Sometimes, taking care of toddlers can be very exhausting. Many toddlers are famous for their high energy levels and oftentimes, parents find themselves wondering how to contain these hyperactive toddlers. You may ask yourself why other kids sit and wait patiently, and yours just can’t stop skirting around. As a parent, there will always be that natural urge to hold them down and keep them out of harm’s way; experienced mothers say: “Don’t try to contain him; just keep him safe and conserve your energy”.

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