World Braille Day and the need to empower the visually impaired population

Globally, as per research on the global prevalence of blindness and distant and near vision impairment which was published by iOVS Journal in 2020, out of the global population of 7.79 billion people in the year 2020, 41.9 million were visually impaired.

Why all parents should read “The book of Tea”

Tea is not a mere beverage; this is because it functionally connects with ethics, religion, and social order. When a child is taught well to manage “tea”, s/he will be able to manage and grow with morals and discipline as is desired by the society in which s/he is groomed.

Certificate: Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience |UNEP, PEDRR, and EU, via SDG Academy

This course ‘Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience’ was offered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) in collaboration with the European Union, via the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Academy. The goal of taking this course was to learn about the approaches by the … Read more

The ‘Pygmalion Effect’ in the child upbringing chain of input, output, outcome and impact

Child upbringing needs to be done with positive expectations. Children performing poorly, or reasoning, acting, or behaving badly should be taken as a human situation and addressed appropriately.

What happens when one grows up with animal attributions and metaphors?

It is common in many societies to find parents and guardians addressing their children with tags, names and metaphors that suggest depravity, incapability, deficiency and diminution. In this article, we examine the effects of these negative attributions, especially about animal characters.

Wellness versus anxiety – and the thought of not being well

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper on 12th October, 2021. As the world markets ‘solutions to problems,’ several ways have been devised to make people customers as they develop a feeling that they dearly need such solutions. While those who experience problems are in the daily struggle to get them solved, … Read more

TZ Targets Youth in Emergency Handling

On the 11th of September every year the world celebrates the International First Aid day. This day allows a chance to examine the international and local uptake, growth and prospects in the field of Emergency Care and First aid. Though the concept ‘first aid’ is a familiar one, its content is indubitably not sufficiently known.