BY Mavis Owureku-Asare — When it comes to food security, the challenge is not always about producing more – it’s also about quality: producing food that is wholesome and preserved safely. About 690 million people go hungry each year. The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to add between 83-132 million people to this number based on socio-economic factors. Even before the pandemic, …
Congratulations to New Voices Senior Fellows Dr. Dixon Chibanda of Friendship Bench Global and Koketso Moeti of amandla.mobi for being selected as 2020 winners of the inaugural Elevate Prize. The goal of the prize is to find extraordinary, purpose-driven leaders all around the world, and to provide them with resources and support to dramatically increase their …
BY Anatole Manzi — In June in New Delhi, the husband of Neelam Kumari Gautam transported his young wife in the back of a rickshaw to eight hospitals in the span of 15 hours. Despite her cries of pain, each hospital turned them away, and Neelam died in childbirth. Covid-19 had shut the doors, taken over the hospital beds, …
BY Chiwoza Bandawe — The world is actually in the throes of two pandemics. The first is COVID-19. The second is the wave of stress and anxiety, depression and substance use it has unleashed around the world. Most mental health disorders are treatable. This so called “second pandemic” is raging in poor and wealthy countries …
Interview with Chiwoza Bandawe — Lack of specialist support and growing unemployment are factors in growing mental heatlh crisis, doctors say. Malawi is seeing a sharp rise in suicide rates this year, with some attributing it to the economic stresses of the Covid pandemic. Malawi police service reports an increase of as much as 57% on …