U.S. global nutrition plan should bring nutrition back to Earth

Poor nutrition harms the health of more than one-half of the people on the planet. Two billion suffer from malnutrition.  It drives poverty that entrenches inequality across generations, and is the underlying cause of 45 percent of child deaths worldwide. Another 1.9 billion people suffer from over-nutrition by virtue of eating too much of the wrong stuff—calories that overwhelm …

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6 Women In Africa Making An Impact In Tech

WOMEN ARE NOT REPRESENTED ADEQUATELY IN VARIOUS CAREER FIELDS, AND IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH LACK OF INTELLIGENCE. IT DOES, HOWEVER, HAVE TO DO WITH PREPARATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Women do not have a strong presence in the sciences at universities, this marks the genesis of a gender disadvantage …

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Ghana: Programme to Equip Girls With IT Skills

Accra — MORE than 1 500 girls in slums are poised to benefit from a programme to empower communities with relevant IT skills in coding and mobile apps technology in Ghana. The programme is a brainchild of Tech Needs Girls, an innovative self-help IT project. The project is also teaching 355 girls to create computer …

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Changing Africa’s single story with science and technology

About this event Join us on our quest of promoting positive attitudes in our society because we believe that together we can give Ghana a better future. Labone is a district of Accra, Ghana bounded to the south by Labadi Road. Cantonments Road serves as the district’s western boundary, while Labadi Crescent is the eastern …

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