Archives for December, 2020
What if we could all have access to water and sanitation services?
© amitiesavoiesahel Mrs Ouedraogo lives in a village about 50 km from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. It is 4 am, and the village is asleep. The sun has…
The Lion That Doesn’t Bite
BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF GHANA'S WILDLIFE Close your eyes, picture the world without biodiversity, the world without wildlife, and the world without Nature. Reflect on what you have seen as…
What If Your Ability To Read Depended On Whether You Read This?
Man watching a screen in darkness. Credit: icsnaps A quick analysis of your devices, how many do you have? How much time do you spend on them? How many times…
Is Urban Farming The Solution To Liberia’s Food Insecurity?
The Republic of Liberia is a small West African nation where up to 60% of the million people live by subsistence agriculture, and live in absolute poverty. A country with…
Lessons from Rwanda’s Booming MICE sector
Rwanda’s current population is about 13 million, and if no measures are taken, the population will be about million by 2050 according to The New Times. (Frank, 2011) Twenty-six years…
The Ones We Left Behind : A Case For Education Accessibility In Refugee Camps.
(Source: Flickr-Yothin Insuk) "Education, for me, has been the only hope that continues to drive me forward. It has been the only thing I look to, to change; my life,…
You Can Clean the Air — Here’s How
Onitsha, a city in Nigeria. Ranked by WHO as one of the world’s most polluted cities (Parke, 2016) INTRODUCTION Air. That thing we breathe in and out every day of…
A Call for rebuilding in Sierra Leone’s equity framework.
Sierra Leone Law Court According to the UN Human Improvement Report (2007), Sierra Leone remains one of the world's poorest countries. By the conclusion of the 1980s, the nation was…
To the Farmer’s Best Friend
Image source What if there were no farmers in Rwanda? #farmersareheroes #agriculture #Rwanda Our way of life would stop. The price of food would triple or quadruple by the…
IT WASN’T ME!!! JUST SAY IT WASN’T YOU? ~Shaggy
Tracey sat at the back seat of her father’s car as they drove to the countryside on the Nairobi Nakuru highway. Her dad was overspeeding to beat the fall of…