What is happiness? And What’s So Great About Happiness Anyways?
By Nabila Alibhai A professor of mine balked at the audacity of the American Declaration of Independence listing “the pursuit of happiness” with the other “unalienable rights” of “life” and “liberty.” Clinically depressed, this professor made us question the pragmatism and equal opportunity (or lack thereof) we have to be happy. She directed us instead […]
Taking Action on the Climate Crisis: How WMS plans to work on the Climate Crisis
Free books! Competition! By TEAM WMS Well, we made it to February! And if the last year has taught us anything, it is that we must all play our part. The covid-19 response is all about our own personal contributions to the bigger system, our responsibility each to act for the good of others. We must work together to thrive and if we all do our part, things will get better! That applies to individual people wearing masks to protect their fellows and it applies to governments supporting Covax to protect their fellows. […]
Meet Kenya’s Falling Walls Finalist 2020: Farida Nzilani
Every day hundreds of young entrepreneurs, both aspiring and experienced, swarm the Hustla MBA social media platform for advice and solutions to the challenges that they are facing – be it thinking about saving money, or debating between opening a vegetable stall or a chips stand. Hustla MBA offers the answers.
Guest Post: Artful Conferences by Lucy Maina — Education initiative uses social practice art to innovate.
How do you inspire innovation? The Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI) had the daunting task of encouraging innovation among 160 educators from five countries in East Africa at the last RELI convening. To meet the challenge they solicited the help of the culture consultants at limeSHIFT. limeSHIFT works with communities – public and private – […]