Mariah Griffin-Angus: A Long Way from Loblaws: Shopping in Uganda. If you have the money, shopping in Uganda is done at western-style shopping malls. Garden City and Nakumatt Oasis are popular with expats. Most Ugandans, however, shop as they always have -- from roadside vendors. Many vendors sell their wares from rudimentary stalls or just spread out on blankets.
On Kira Road, by the Engen Gas Station, you can buy jeans, shoes, pineapples and dish soap. Bukoto Market usually has a healthy supply of chickens squawking indignantly from makeshift cages. But the great mother of all markets is Owino, home to over 50,000 vendors. Getting to Owino is an adventure in itself; it is downtown, behind the taxi park where all the matatus (the mini-buses) congregate. Ducking into the narrow entranceway of Owino, the rudimentary nature of the market is striking. "Mzungu! "Ah! Owino is the backbone of commerce in Kampala. Owino has burnt down several times, but each time, it has sprung up again. It is not surprising, however, that Owino has burnt down so often. A Gift For Grammar Nazis: 7 Sentences That Sound Crazy But Are Still Grammatical (National Grammar Day) 'Africa is not a country': Students' campaign breaks down stereotypes.
The African Students Association of Ithaca College in New York has launched a photo campaign called "The Real Africa: Fight the Stereotype. " The social media campaign wants to create awareness about the common stereotypes surrounding Africa and its people. The students decided to launch the initiative after receiving questions such as, "Do you speak African? " or hearing remarks that described the continent as a country. The participants, aged 18 to 21, posed with different flags from across the continent. "What we wanted to do was embrace the individual flags of the countries of Africa," says Rita Bunatal, PR for the organization. "We wanted to show the beauty and the power of the flag. Each posing student used their photo as an opportunity to express a statement dispelling views they found offensive. "It was up to them," says Bunatal. "We wanted to give facts, to correct, to give knowledge," says Bunatal, "trying to educate and stop people from saying these other things.
" News - The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary. 3 March 2014Last updated at 19:35 ET By Vibeke Venema BBC World Service A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads. Arunachalam Muruganantham's invention came at great personal cost - he nearly lost his family, his money and his place in society. But he kept his sense of humour. "It all started with my wife," he says. In 1998 he was newly married and his world revolved around his wife, Shanthi, and his widowed mother.
One day he saw Shanthi was hiding something from him. "I will be honest," says Muruganantham. Wanting to impress his young wife, Muruganantham went into town to buy her a sanitary pad. He fashioned a sanitary pad out of cotton and gave it to Shanthi, demanding immediate feedback. Muruganantham says that in rural areas, the take-up is far less than that.
Finding volunteers to test his products was no mean feat. A Photographer Asked Convicts To Write To Their Younger Selves And The Results Were Gut-Wrenching. IN PHOTOS: Boracay in the 1970s | News Feature, News. Angry asian man. Watch "Matilda" Cast Members Reenact Scenes As Grown-Ups. This Man Is Hilariously Live-Tweeting His Flight-and-Feud With The Woman in #7A (with images, tweets) · EliLanger. In the Midst of a Warzone there's an Afghani Skateboarding School for Girls. Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female. In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty impressive statistic. In a part of the world where little girls aren’t even allowed to ride a bicycle, that’s a ground-breaking statistic. Officially, this makes Afghanistan the unlikeliest of title holders for the highest rate of female participation in skateboarding out of any country in the world.
War, Taliban, violations of human rights: unfortunately these are the things most associated with Afghanistan today. And yet in a society that has no place for them, 70% of the population of this country is made up of children. Enter Australian skater Oliver Percovich, who first visited Afghanistan in 2007 with three skateboards in tow. This is a place where six days a week, children can be safe while learning in a supervised and secure private facility. Watch the trailer here: Build back better after Yolanda: 7 lessons from Albay, Europe, LatAm, Africa, and a Pinoy architect. InterAksyon.comThe online news portal of TV5 Super typhoon Yolanda is an opportunity for Tacloban and the rest of the Visayas to reboot in a sustainable and democratic way, and perhaps even become a model of development. But the rebuilding process must be re-thought. The old ways will not survive future calamities, especially with global warming and its stronger, more frequent storms.
We need not look very far. Albay has successfully fought against its destiny of geography. Located as well at the eastern seaboard, Albay (like Aurora, the rest of Bicol, Samar, and northeastern Mindanao) forms part of the country’s typhoon gateway. After typhoon Sisang, which killed 600 and destroyed P700 million in 1987, and the Mayon Volcano eruption in 1993, the provincial government in 1994 started a successful disaster preparedness program that is constantly being improved. 1. 2. The province turned the principle of environmental impact assessment on its head. 3. Rounding up, let's recycle waste. 4. Ragged Write Technical Communications. Documentary chronicles how the Philippines rescued 1,300 Jews from the Holocaust By CARMELA G. LAPEÑA, GMA NewsFebruary 18, 2013 11:50pm As a little girl during the Holocaust, Lotte Hershfield could not quite understand what it was all about.
At five years old, she would see benches that would say "Dogs and Jews not allowed. " She remembered being terribly frightened by the Nazis' big police dog when they came to their house and took their Jewish books away. She recalled her mother crying bitterly, telling her that her father was away on a business trip, not divulging that he had been arrested at the Breslau town hall. In contrast, she was excited as they fled Germany on board a ship. "You saw how the doors were basically closed to all of us except the Philippines, and how the Filipino people are a very warm people, they're a very friendly people," Hershfield said in "An Open Door", a documentary about the Jewish rescue in the Philippines. Filmmaker Noel M. An Ancient Love Letter Found in South Korea Will Break Your Heart. When we love another person, we are on a journey through life with them. However, sometimes death separates us from our partners before the journey is over.
This love letter was written by a grieving pregnant widow to her dead lover, Eung-Tae Lee. It was was discovered in an ancient tomb in Andong City, South Korea. The 16th-century male was a member of the ancient Goseong Yi clan and died long before his beloved at the age of 30. Even though Eung-Tae Lee is now mummified, his death can still break our hearts. This letter was resting on his chest, a message of love that stayed by his side since 1582. His pregnant wife wrote it for him while her life was falling apart. These sandals were placed in the tomb with him, lovingly woven from hemp bark and his heartbroken wife’s own hair. The letter reads: To Won’s Father June 1, 1586 You always said, “Dear, let’s live together until our hair turns gray and die on the same day.” How did you bring your heart to me and how did I bring my heart to you? Documentary Chronicles how Philippines rescued 1,300 Jews from Holocaust (best, life, country.
PROMISE KEPT | Tacloban prisoners return to jail after tending to families. InterAksyon.comThe online news portal of TV5 PALO, Leyte - Nearly half of the detainees who fled from a flooded jail at the height of Super Typhoon Haiyan have returned, many after helping their families deal with the storm's aftermath. There were nearly 600 detainees at the Leyte Provincial Jail when the typhoon, one of the strongest ever to make landfall, flattened dozens of towns across the islands of Leyte and Samar on November 8. The winds ripped off the roof of the prison, which houses detainees who are on trial, while gushing water from the mountains sent flash floods into the isolated complex near the ruined coastal town of Palo.
Prison guard Fidencio Abrea said all of the detainees fled as head-high water forced them to clamber up the prison grills and then over into stormy freedom, with no roof to contain them. Abrea said the guards were themselves sheltering from the howling wind and powerful rains, so did not notice the mass escape. Return to prove innocence. Beggar Boy Donates Money from Alms, Gains Admiration from Volunteers, Internet Users.
An Ancient Love Letter Found in South Korea Will Break Your Heart. Puppy Survives Being Hit by Car and Stuck in Car's Grill on Highway. Julia Cesar Siqueira was driving with his mother and two other students to a university two hours away from his home. As he turned onto a dangerous road, he saw a small mongrel. He swerved to avoid her, but he knew he must have hit her because of the thud. He couldn’t stop because of the road, but he figured she survived since he wasn’t going at a high speed. So, he continued on his journey. You won’t believe what happened to the dog. After being struck by the vehicle, the little dog was wedged inside of the bumper.
She survived the impact AND the long trip. She was in his car for two hours, miraculously not falling out or becoming more injured in the process. After he arrived at his destination, he noticed that several people were signaling for him to stop his car. She has been named Vitoria, which means “victory.” Source. 17 heartwarming photos on how Lapu-Lapu folks skipped their fiesta to feed arriving evacuees.
1. It all started when they asked their fellow Oponganons, who were busy preparing food to celebrate their fiesta, for packed meals to feed the arriving evacuees. 2. They went around knocking on doors to ask for food. 3. Initially, they said they felt awkward, but went ahead in the spirit of bayanihan. 4. They went from house to house filling every styropor they brought with them. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Photo credits: Fritz John Menguito and Kevin Maglinte. 20 photos on how Cebuanos embraced the evacuees from Leyte.
Posted on: Monday, November 18, 2013 Jonji Gonzales administrator 1. The local government units of Lapu-Lapu and Cebu Cities prepare for the arrival of the evacuees from Leyte on board a navy vessel. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Girl Saves Suicidal Boy With a Kiss. AWWW — By Goran on 2011/06/26 4:58 AM Liu Wenxiu, a 19-year-old waitress from Shenzhen, has been praised for stopping a 16-year-old boy from committing suicide with a simple kiss. Liu was passing by a pedestrian bridge in downtown Shenzhen when she spotted hundreds of onlookers watching a young man with a knife in his hand, threatening to jump. She managed to get close to the boy by telling the police that she was his girlfriend and also the reason for his attempt to commit suicide. According to local television, the boy’s mother had passed away, his stepmother didn’t treat him well and she left with all his father’s money.
“He told me he didn’t have a home anymore, nobody cared about him and no one trusted him. The negotiation on the bridge ended like a romantic movie when Liu hugged the boy and kissed him unexpectedly. Liu left after the rescue, but local police needed her help again because the boy refused to reveal his story without her presence, reports Asia One.