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As unemployment and corruption grows in Senegal, young people trickle into Italy
“I am lucky to be alive. Some of my friends died on our way here in 2017. I don’t like to talk about it. It is really hard for me. I want to forget,” Mbaye told Eric. Mbaye and Mornyang are among thousands of undocumented African youth in Europe who are constantly fleeing the economic hardship in their region. Eric Kafui Okyerefo tells the story of their lives. A story of hope and hardship.
Ainesis Dear Dancer 3-4: Your health comes first and create your own circle
Through the month of June to July, Ainesis will be sharing insights on how to live healthy and enhance effectiveness as a dancer. Knowledge is power. Ignorance is a disease.Join them this month and feel…
Ainesis Dear Dancer 1-2: Understand your body and eat well
Through the month of June to July, Ainesis will be sharing insights on how to live healthy and enhance effectiveness as a dancer. Knowledge is power. Ignorance is a disease.Join them this month and feel…
Ainesis Conceptz Introduces the Dear Dancer Project
After the just concluded World Dance Day on April 29, Ainesis has launched its “Dear Dancer” project to sensitize dancers and members of the public on the importance of staying healthy as a dancer. Esta…
She was almost locked up by the police for a social media stunt – see brave filmmaker Afungfege Evita
Unfortunately, life chose a different path for me. My story is that of a youth struggling with passion and society’s demands. Despite almost getting locked up by the police for a social media stunt, [her short film] …. “IN 72“ hours got selected in two festivals.
Wadi Ben-Hirki’s experience at the Generation Change Fellowship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Despite being only 17 when she started out, Wadi Ben-Hirki founded a foundation, stepped in to help many children who had been internally displaced by war, help women who had been marginalized, and help youths in Northern Nigeria who needed to gain entrepreneurial skills to fend for themselves.
The Mind of Unemployed Youth
The majority of young men and women with great academic achievements and others with rich technical skills are looming the streets of many towns in our country with no hope of where to get employment, how to get employment and who to offer them with employment.
HAPPINESS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT TO BE!
For happiness… he wished to be in their shoes. Yes, but who doesn’t like the good taste of honey and as the day passed, his desire to become rich increased. He still died an unhappy man.
8 fantastic and essentialist ways writers and social-do-gooders can say no this 2019
Got a lot of work to do or you just want to rest? Accepting an offfer or request could cramp your style, so here are 8 fantastic ways to say no this 2019!
A male and female guide: this is what you must do if you’re being sexually harassed
Whether you’re male or female you can be a victim of sexual harassment. Never keep it to yourself, here’s what you must do if you’re being sexually harassed.
This could be how millennials define success but how should you define success?
Fame, women, money, cars. This could be how millennials define success but how should you define success? How do the world’s most successful change makers truly define success?
During the war they shot his father first in the head
In peace & in war children bear the brunt. His father is first shot in the head. His mother’s throat is slit by one of the six soldiers and he’s holding the last surviving family member he has, his little sister.
10 revealing ways to say no without feeling guilty
It’s so hard to say no to people without feeling bad! But when you have clarity of purpose and know what you want, you become laser focused you can easily say no without feeling guilty.
YOU, YES YOU!!!
Many of us are boxed into a system that has majority of the population believing that they are whoever you say they are. We live and breathe based on what people say and on people’s validation. We are afraid to get out of our comfort zone and explore because we are afraid of failure and mockery.
EmpowerWomen
Photo credit: CARE.org Women, they say are the backbones of every society, community, family etc. It’s baffling how women in many of these societies still have little to no say on issues affecting them. They…