I had a very mean grandmother. She was an angry woman who, no doubt, had a lot of pain of her own, but that is immaterial when you are a child and at the receiving end of adult wrath. Anyway, … Continue reading
One of the clearest and most obvious signs of how we are all fundamentally the same is shown in how we relate to our children. There is something undeniably attractive about the look of pride on the faces of these … Continue reading
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It’s easy to say that FGC/FGM is a barbaric practice that is common in far away places. It’s easy to believe that we are different to the people who do things like that to little girls. It’s nice to believe … Continue reading
One of the problems that naturally occurs when a light is shone on pain and suffering is that those who are looking at this picture are overwhelmed by pity. This might seem like a good outcome – surely if we … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking. Why is it that on the one hand we are so terrified of change we’ll go to extreme lengths to avoid it, while on the other hand we are told – and tell ourselves – that real, … Continue reading
In 1999, Sugata Mitra – now Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in the UK, was working in Delhi when he had a crazy idea. The complex in which he worked was surrounded by a slum and he wondered … Continue reading
No matter what you do, if you care enough to use your skills and talents and ideas to make the world a better place, you’ll succeed. You don’t need to be Mohandas Gandhi or Mother Teresa to effect change in … Continue reading
Roméo Dallaire – Canadian Senator and ex-Commander of the United Nations Forces in Rwanda during the genocide in 1994 – is dedicating his life to trying to eradicate the use of children as weapons of war. Senator Dallaire has a … Continue reading
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