This month, as part of the Education Team’s focus on Equal Access, I read (ok, I listened to) Let It Go by Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH. The book tells her story from being a Kindertransport refugee from Vienna, to an entrepreneur founding a software company in 1962, to her career as a philanthropist and letting...
A survey conducted by Microsoft in Europe found that young girls are interested in pursuing STEM subjects at age 11 and then rapidly lose interest in their teens. The innumerable reasons for girls not entering STEM industries range from peer pressure, to a lack of role models and parental support, to a general difficulty in...
“Knowledge gives discipline, from discipline comes worthiness, from worthiness, one gets wealth, from wealth one does good deeds, and from that comes joy.” This Sanskrit shloka was written in 200 BCE and holds true today, in that education is all-empowering and pivotal to building sustainable communities.
Historically, sections of society had deliberately limited access...
The Education Team’s focus for October and November is Equal Access, which encompasses SDG Targets 4.2 & 4.5. Our November ‟Notes from the Field” focus on the ‟E” and ‟M” of STEM Education: Engineering and Math – traditionally fields where girls and women have been discouraged from entering, thereby denying them equal access to a...
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the...
All-pervasive
Palm oil is found in almost everything we use or eat every day. It is in day-to-day items where you wouldn’t even think to look for it, but there it is anyway – cookies, pizza, shampoo, soap, margarine, biofuel, cooking oil, peanut butter, washing detergent, chocolate, ice cream and even lipstick. And the list...