A seven-year-old girl from Srinagar is on a mission to keep the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar clean. The girl who is identified as Jannat, has been taking out garbage from the lake since she was five. After receiving appreciation from locals, she has now earned a place in a textbook that has been included …
Since March 2020, Guatemala has recorded more than 600 COVID-19 deaths and over 11,000 infections. Amidst this crisis, indigenous women have continued to use their voices, knowledge and capacities to assist their communities and adapt their livelihoods. To build back better, their needs and concerns, but also their leadership must be placed at the centre …
Through a donation drive dubbed #MayTwentyAko, a group of young Filipinos has been helping communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic MANILA, Philippines – The initiative of two friends who wanted to help contribute to the fight against the coronavirus has gone a long way since they embarked on their call for P20-donations months ago. Erika …
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One of Sierra Leone’s most outstanding female pharmacists and entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone, Dr. Manal Ghazzawi, is the latest and proud recipient of one of the world’s prestigious awards, bestowed on her by Women in Africa Entrepreneur (WIA54) initiative. She won the award because of her outstanding contributions in the medical field and particularly because …
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Tim O’Reilly has a financial incentive to pooh-pooh the traditional VC model, wherein investors gamble on nascent startups in hopes of seeing many times their money back. Bryce Roberts, who is O’Reilly’s longtime investing partner at the early-stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), now actively steers the partnership away from these riskier investments and into companies …
