Her Sides

Maybe one day, we will dream, And work in harmony. Maybe one day, we will see, More than people in poverty.   Maybe one day, we will know, That money doesn’t consume us. Maybe one day, we won’t Throw people under the bus.   Because I know that we can change, Get rid of our old ways. I believe in humankind, To go back to the old days.   ​ When we didn’t cheat, When we didn’t lie. Before our empathy Ran dry.   Helping people, Through time and space. When life wasn’t a wild goose chase.   But things will get better, This I know. With the help of FAIRTRADE®, We don’t have to go solo.   The banana farmers, The cocoa ones too. Will have a better life, It could be thanks to you.     Dara is a brilliant seventh-grader with a passion for acting, speaking, animating and writing. He has won several academic and artistic awards. Read more about him here:

  "That is where the tribes go up— the tribes of the Lord— to praise the name of the Lord according to the statute given to Israel." Psalm 122: 4 (NIV)   Recently I had the privilege of facilitating a culture workshop with my team at work. The workshop's goal was to define as a team what we wanted the culture of our work environment to be. We talked about culture regarding what norms will be accepted, our value system, work styles, common goals, social activities, and ways we celebrate together. These values would be the baseline of culture, the core identity of our Tribe.    As I started to think through some of the things we discussed, I wondered at the polarity and division that this same sense of culture and belonging had brought to the world we live in. Culture, Tribe, the very thing that aimed to unite us, somehow found a way to divide us. But, good news, despite our different races, cultures, and norms, we are connected by a new one....

  Written by Jumoke Eniola-Odepe   "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has"  - Margaret Mead.   March is Women's History Month.   Rightly so.   With over a century-old women's rights movement, women have crossed many rivers to get to where we are today.    Over the years, women have fought for the right to vote, equal representation in government, the right to equal pay, and a host of other rights.    We, the younger generation of women, are proud to be in this era because of the work that our female forerunners have done {and are doing}.   Some of the women who paved the way for us are known; some remain unsung heroes.    We knew nothing about the three women mathematicians who worked in NASA as human computers till the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures" brought them to our screen.  ...