“My mom had been told if she gave birth to a daughter, it wasn’t worth phoning home about. After all, she’d already given birth to my older sister,” the comedian said YouTuber, comedian and TV show host Lilly Singh gained popularity for her hilarious take on South Asian culture, relationships and food. A staunch believer …
Temie Giwa-Tubosun’s business uses data and technology to get urgent blood supplies to hospitals and to save lives. Temie Giwa-Tubosun had an epiphany 13 years ago when she met an expectant mother who was about to lose her baby. Giwa-Tubosun was working as a 22-year-old intern with a health services organisation in northern Nigeria, doing …
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OTT platform Netflix has collaborated with the Information and Broadcasting Ministry of the Government Of India to come up with some short films that will talk about women changemakers called ‘Azadi Ki Amrit Kahaniya’. From a mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest twice in the same season to India’s first woman firefighter, the information and broadcasting …
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Anita Yusof is the first Malaysian to get into the Asia Book of Records for the longest solo bike ride Famous Malaysian solo motorcycle rider Anita Yusof was in Qatar while exploring the Gulf on her Yamaha FZ 150. Described as the first Muslim woman to ride around the world solo, she visited Qatar during …
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With summertime funding from a nonprofit that promotes peace, Bojana Drča ’24 and Usira Ali ’22 will help communities in their home cities of Belgrade, Serbia, and Portland, Maine. This is the first time that two Bowdoin students (rather than one) were recipients of awards from Projects for Peace, a nonprofit that supports young “peace builders and change …
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