Moms + SocialGood

Moms +SocialGood is a one-day event where we put moms and their families are the center of the conversation. We unite hundreds of passionate experts and advocates to share ideas, inspire action, and tackle some of the world’s most critical challenges facing the well-being of moms and their families around the world.   What do …

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Digital activism comes of age: technology is creating new space for marginalized voices

Braving below zero temperatures this winter in Ottawa Canada, activists descended on the headquarters of Shopify, an ecommerce platform, to deliver a 200,000 strong petition. The petition, organised by SumOfUs, a consumer watch-dog, together with Sleeping Giants, an anonymous group of activists, calls on shopify to stop supporting sales of merchandise produced by the extreme right-wing …

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Nigerian regulatory agencies and food poisoning

A few years ago, my friend, Dolapo Adetunji, bought carrots and cucumbers from a fruit vendor at the main entrance of University of Ibadan. She washed the vegetables and ate one of the carrots, while waiting for the food she was preparing to be ready. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen but …

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Africa needs to join forces again to secure a lower cost vaccine

Meningitis is an infectious and life-threatening bacterial disease that infects and inflames the brain and spinal cord. It’s a disease that the world has been able to prevent through vaccines for more than a decade – yet thousands of people are still dying from it in Africa. This year alone 750 people have died and …

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Stop seeing refugees as a problem and start seeing their potential

From Syria, to Nigeria to Myanmar, the number of people fleeing war and persecution around the world is at unprecedented levels. The United Nations Refugee Agencyestimates the total number seeking safety by the end of 2015 was 65 million worldwide. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Great Britain being uprooted and dispersed. And that was …

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