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…
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…
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…
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”.
Striped Clothes: Defiance or Fashion?
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A striped cloth simply refers to a textile pattern of parallel bands or lines on a contrasting background. A textile woven, knitted, or printed in with bands of different colours, evenly or unevenly spaced, appearing on the surface of the fabric.
Tackling Trust Issues in Relationship
Trust is a key part of a relationship. Do you see certain things that cause you not to trust your partner? Or do you have unresolved issues that prevent you from trusting others? Trust is non-negotiable. It’s one of the major tenants of any healthy relationship. However, having a partner with trust issues doesn’t mean you can’t have a healthy relationship. It just makes things more complicated. Writer Mike Bundrant of PsychCentral pointed out that, “Hanging onto past hurt and expecting more of it becomes a self-sabotaging, self-fulfilling prophecy.” So, on the one hand, you want to be the savior that teaches your person to love again. On the other hand, gaining someone’s trust when they aren’t sure they want to give it is a lot of work. Only you can decide if it’s worth it (and it can be worth it). There are a few things you…
Rosalind Brewer- Breaking Through Uncharted Spheres
Rosalind G. Brewer is the President and CEO of Sam’s Club (a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.). She was born in 1962, a native of Detroit, United States. She attended Detroit Cass technical High School, and proceeded to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry. She attended an advanced management program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and she is a graduate of the Director’s College at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business/Stanford Law School. Prior to joining Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Rosalind served as a high-impact strategist with experience spanning global manufacturing operations, research and development, marketing and strategic business unit leadership. She started her career as a scientist in Nonwoven Technology and Product Development of Kimberly-Clark Corp., and eventually became vice president of the Nonwoven Fabrics Business, where she revitalized an underperforming business unit and grew sales by…