The World Children’s Day which is marked annually on 20th November, has been celebrated for the sixty-eighth time since its first observance, with a theme: ‘Inclusion for every child.’ In rthis analytic discourse we establish new ways to make inclusion more visible and practical as a social empowerment initiative.
Diabetes has been responsible for at least $966 billion in health expenditure in 2021 which is 9% of the global total spent on healthcare. There is a need for global action to promote the importance of taking coordinated and concerted actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue.
The idea of people gambling over mystery boxes, lottery, fixed odds, and wagers dates back to the time before the development of modern written history. It is a centuries-old pastime.
According to UNESCO, about 58 tsunamis have hit the world with devastating effects but more are still expected in the future as the sea level rises due to climate change. Tanzanian coastline is not spared from the possibility of higher tidal waves.
Globally, statistics show that 1.3 billion people still live in multidimensional poverty with almost half of them being children and youth. In Tanzania, numerous poverty reduction strategies seek to increase the quality of life such as access to education, clean water, sanitation, and health services.
Mwalimu Yusuph, a talented teacher who has won international admiration through social media, shares about his early life journey, his career experiences, aspirations, as well as the change he wishes to see in the society and in primary education in Tanzania.
Literacy in a widened understanding goes beyond the conventional, i.e. ‘reading and writing’ as the global dream incorporates the impartation of skills which help to nurture talents and also to foster measurable and functional participation in society.
At an early age, left-handed children can also be told of the successful and globally reputed left-handers.
Dr Sacha Hepburn who is a historian of modern Africa at Birkbeck, University of London speaks at length, among other things, about the effects of racialized constructions of African childhood
on the occasion of the International Day of the African Child. She specialises in histories of gender, age, work, and the environment, and she is the author of Home Economics: Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa (2022) and a number of published essays.
According to experts, overwhelming feelings of loneliness, painful memories, traumatic experiences, negative life events, stresses and anxiety can result in self-harm.