By Goodnews Buekor.
A video of a couple trended on Tiktok just recently. It is the way stories emanate these days, isn’t it? Alicia Mccarvell posted a video of her and her husband preparing for a friend’s wedding. The video, which has over 22 million views, has received severe criticism and derogatory remarks from TikTok users. Why? Because Alicia is a plus-size woman.
In order to provide reusable sanitary products for women and girls, Catherine Nakayemba and her two friends Atuhurra Angella Marjorie and Ndagire Corret, founded Safe Girl Reusable Pads in 2016. The pads for rural communities are made by Safe Girl, a company situated in a community in Mpigi District, which now employs 11 young moms.
As the most severe drought in forty years drives families to the breaking point, UNICEF warns that girls as young as twelve are being coerced into child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at “alarming rates” in the Horn of Africa.
According to British research, breastfeeding directly improves the speaking, drawing, and cognitive abilities of children of disadvantaged moms.
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem. American feminist journalist and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine.
According to experts from London, women had a 50% greater chance than males of having long Covid.
According to a poll, women were less likely than males to indicate they were making ends meet in early 2022.
