The journey so far for AlterYouth only goes to show that all it takes is grit and genuine passion to make your dreams into a reality. Asifun Nabi didn’t just make his own dream of someday seeing Bangladesh parallel to countries such as America a reality. He also made dreams of many unfortunate children of achieving literacy such as Sufia, a reality.
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By: Hein Min Aung She grew up in a rural area with no electricity and poor telecommunication which had very rare connections with other places. She dropped out of school in Grade-9 and had to stop her journey of formal education at the age of 14 since her family could not provide financial support any
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By Phillip Subu In the past fifty years, Myanmar was trapped in a dictatorial regime and was isolated from the rest of the world. Its current antiquated educational system cannot prepare the young generation to solve new challenges and its teachers are not equipped to teach 21st century learning skills. Rote learning, a memorization technique based on
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In prehistoric times when access to education was limited, people jumped from library to library in search of books that’ll help them excel academically. Today, cyberspace has thrown all that into the bin of history by availing countless educational resources thereby creating more opportunities to learn at just a fingertip.
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Globally, security has remained a subject of great concern. No nation or society can boast of being completely free from the problems ensued by insecurity. In the last two decades alone, countries like Israel, North Korea, Russia, USA, and South Korea, have experienced different forms of transnational violence; terrorism, kidnapping, insurgency, socio ethno-religious conflicts, have emerged in countries like Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Kenya; while countries like Myanmar, Pakistan, and Gambia have suffered political violence and politically induced tensions.
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Good health is “both essential and instrumental to human survival, livelihood and dignity.” The World Health Organisation defines health security as “activities required to minimise the danger and impact of acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical regions and international boundaries.”
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“I wonder why we’re always demanding and not doing anything for our society. For example, there’s a fire and you say ‘It’s burning’, but what are you doing to prevent wildfires in your city or your country? What are you doing? You have to do something and that change comes from yourself.
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Not long ago, the Tokyo Olympics came to a successful conclusion. Some of them, though not obvious at first glance, attracted a lot of attention — a delegation of refugees from different countries, speaking different languages but sharing the same aspirations.
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Gargi Mishra is a 21-year old Teach for India fellow teaching in a low-income private school in Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, Mumbai.
Most of us spend hours scrolling through our Facebook and Instagram feeds, looking at memes and sharing them across to get laughs. We cannot imagine social media as we know it without memes.
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