By: Boma Benjy Iwuoha
I recently came across a blog by a fashion student Bianca Luini titled WHERE I SEE FASHION; in her blog, she matches fashion images with photography and art that share like shapes, concepts, and colours. Her quote says “Fashion is Everywhere and Everything is in Fashion” and she has set about proving that statement right with the pictures.
As ladies, there is this feeling that at a particular age, our biological clocks start ticking. This feeling prompts the search for answers to the numerous questions we ask ourselves. Some of these questions may include things like, ‘What is wrong with me’, ‘What is it I am doing wrong’, ’Am I beautiful enough’, ’Is there a particular way I should treat my man that I have not explored’, ‘Why am I not meeting the right people’. These questions are countless and more often than not rhetorical. Here are some of the reasons you still have not found the kind of relationship you desire: You’re Not Actually Looking for it You say you want love, but you’re not doing anything to actively facilitate finding it. Go out. Go out a lot. Have friends set you up. Forget the way you “thought you’d find love”. There’s a difference between chasing it…
By: Valerie Dei Thato and Rea both founded Repurpose School Bags, a company that produces recycled backpacks at low-cost for disadvantaged students in their local community in South Africa. Their young business collects and recycles plastic waste to produce school bags for local students. But that’s not just it. These recycled plastic bags have a solar panel in the flap, which charges as the children walk to and back from school. The bags also have strips of reflective material, an added safety design to make the children more visible to traffic in the early hours. The charged solar panels are used to provide lighting at night. Students can use this light to do their homework and study instead of using candles. This helps students to do more school work and saves money which could have been spent on candles. Thato and Rea have partnered with local individuals and organizations…
UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) will convene an expert group meeting from 30 to 31 May at UN Headquarters in New York, to discuss “Strategies to Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women and Girls through the Gender-responsive Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The two-day expert group meeting is taking place in the lead up to the High Level Political Forum (HLPF), an intergovernmental platform that provides political leadership, guidance and recommendations for sustainable development and reviews the progress on SDG implementation. The meeting will gather representatives from governments, UN entities, civil society and other organizations to explore good practices, challenges and lessons learned in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, as well as linkages between SDG 5 and other SDGs. The 2017 HLPF, scheduled to…
Whether you already have your wardrobe set up or you are still in the process of refining your style, the number one thing you need is a strategy; a roadmap to put you on the right track, and streamline your decision making.
We all have our different perceptions and definitions of bullying, some say it is a behavior, often repeated and habitual which involves the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others; others have defined it as the use superior strength or influence to intimidate; while the Merriam Webster Dictionary, defines bullying as abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, or more powerful. At some point in our teenage lives or high school, we may have been involved in Bullying, either as a victim or the bully, some of us left that phase of life with the thought, “thank God it’s over”; while others carried on to their adult lives, the effects of teenage bullying; scarred for life or became even bigger bullies in their adult life. It’s no wonder various organizations have taken it upon themselves to ensure that the system finds…
Women Up was founded by Sheila Lirio Marcelo founder and CEO of Care.com and joined by Cora Neumann, founder of the Global First Ladies Alliance; Women Up is an organization on a mission to increase women’s role in the global economy through the provision of mentorship, leadership training and support to girls and women through every stage of their lives and careers. The organization, implements programs for Rising Women Leaders which focuses on reducing the formidable barriers stand in the way of many women who desire to lead, not the least of which are personal courage, confidence and capacity; Women Up programs helps participants, reduce these barriers by providing trainings in transformational leadership, skill-building and inspiration to promising women in every stage of their lives and careers; the programs for Rising Women Leaders, is currently being implemented in Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the…
