LIMBI BLESSING TATA – CAMEROON
Rebuilding Cameroon’s Forest Wealth, Tree by Tree In 2016, I met Yvette, a 15-year-old girl from my community who became an au-pair with the hope of getting secondary education as a reward. She had an outstanding performance in primary school but due to gender prioritization, her brother who was less intelligent, was sent to secondary […]
HARRIET KAMASHANYU – UGANDA
Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter and Social Entreprenuer. In February of last year 2020, the Tourism Minister Godfrey Kiwanda unveiled the “Miss Curvy Uganda” contest, stating that Uganda had “naturally endowed” women who should be used as “a strategy” to boost tourism. Ugandan women were listed as a tourist attraction. Uganda is a diverse and beautiful country […]
ABHIJIT SINHA – INDIA
Among other ways, Abhijit describes mainstream education as a self-fulfilling prophecy, much in the way as one could imagine a Software Programmer who programmed 10 robots, and instructed them to further program 10 each, following an unending spiral that expands exponentially. After a few generations, the Programmer is no more, but the robots keep programming […]
TONI JOY – NIGERIA
I was 13 when I jumped in the front of a moving vehicle to kill myself but the taxi driver was too skilled that he just drove over… At the age of 12, I lost my dad, and that marked the beginning of a different life. He was the centerpiece of my childhood, the one who […]
FARUK MUSEMA – UGANDA
MY ABILITY IS WHAT DEFINES ME Tak! Tung! Boom, boom! I hear gunshots around me. My crying mother runs to pick me up. We ran to a protected shelter nearby. I was 7 years old, and this was 1997, at the heights of the civil war in Uganda. I am scared, the one place that […]
OJOK SIMONS – UGANDA
CEO and Co-founder of HIVE Uganda, inspirational talent and motivational speaker. Ojok’s life has been eventful from the very beginning. Growing up in Gulu, northern Uganda, his life was heavily affected by the presence of the Lord Resistance Army that occupied the northern part of the country in the 90’s and 2000’s. By the age […]
SRISTI KC – NEPAL
I was born sighted and as the youngest in my family I was very pampered. Everyone helped me to fullfill my wishes. I loved dancing, singing, and acting. At age 16 everything changed: One day during the parents day celebration in my school, my coaches had helped me to choreographe my dance performance. I went […]
TREVOR MOLIFE – ZIMBABWE
“You think we do not know what you are: you are gay, such a disgusting abomination to the human race and a disgrace to the family!” These were the words I got from my nephew, which sent me straight to a sleepless night of tossing and turning in bed, with a stream of tears on […]
Stringbean Party
Jared and Serena
These are two people who came to Germany from Australia and America, or better, from Taiwan where they met, fell in love and started to make their music some ten years ago. They are young and beautiful but even more, resilient, artistic, hard working and giving all for creating life and environment in a way lost on most of the lost of today, who are many……
Recyclers of waste
Farming Flies to Save our Planet
If black soldier fly larvae could enter competitive eating contests, they would excel, especially when it comes to eating nasty stuff that we don’t want around or wouldn’t think of eating ourselves. The ability of the black soldier fly to convert low-grade organic waste into high-quality nutrients has opened-up a ground-breaking prospect for the large-scale production of animal feed. The […]