A total of 11 million masks were given out to Singapore residents, along with free hand sanitiser, as part of efforts by Temasek to support the nation’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, about one million face shields were distributed to young schoolchildren and front-line workers in the food and beverage industry, while 250,000 …
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Orit Alperovitz and Inbal Polak were sick of being the only women in the room, so, they started a women-only investor club and are hoping to change the industry, one investment at a time. “We were sick of being the only women in the room,” Orit Alperovitz, co-founder and CEO of women-only Israeli angel investor …
She helped set up small processing units in Uttarakhand, their turnover of Dh497,269 now At just 28, food scientist Kirti Kumar’s passion for food, is empowering over 1,000 tribal women in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, to earn money using local resources. With the help of self-help groups (SHGs), she trains rural women to become …
A pair of New Plymouth teenagers want to take their message from the classroom to the masses as a means to create more awareness about climate justice. New Plymouth Girls’ High School students Ellie Dinnison and Annie Larsen have signed up for the 2020 Amnesty International Freedom Challenge as part of their social studies class. …
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Earlier these women had no contact to the outer world other than their husbands and now they rule their blocks and panchs like a lone wolf. Rajasthan still struggles with gender inequity at grassroots, despite having a female Chief Minister at the helm for more than half of the last two decades. Their efforts at …
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