Some had been abused, others were orphans, and some came from families that are very traditional, that had never sent any girl to school.
Different cultures in the world have different beliefs on the education of women, some are very restrictive. Just because what we have is culture, doesn't always mean that it will help us.
She really loved learning, and she wanted to come to my school when she heard about it. So she asked her father, her mother — anyone to bring her to my school. They all refused. Faith did something very brave. She stole an egg from her mother’s house, went to the market, sold the egg and bought a single pencil.
People are often afraid of change, fear is a natural part of human emption meant to protect us, but it can also hinder us. Seeing people go past their fear and being able to take that step necessary to go beyond is what shows the rest of the world that we don't always have to follow programming.
She arrived tired and hungry, but determined. I listened to her story, and we enrolled her in my school.
I've noticed that a lot of times in stories like this, the people are always filled with desire to expand and learn, it it always the fact that they lack the resources necessary to continue the paths they want to travel that stops them. Is it possible to provide the tools for those across the world who are in need of it?
what you find is that most rich countries have between three and four times the amount of food that their population needs to feed itself. A country like America has four times the amount of food that it needs.
If we have so much food, why is it being tossed out and treated like waste? A lot of food can be stored for a long time. So why are we resorting to throwing away extra stuff rather than storing or recycling it like giving it to others who need it?
As a country gets richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into its shops
Supply and demand at its finest right here, richer country means more stable economy. More stable economy means more people will come to the country, more people means stores will run out of surplus faster, meaning more surplus is needed. It is a viscous cycle that only continues to grow if the economy grows. More people, more surplus, more waste.
a way of confronting large businesses in the business of wasting food, and exposing, most importantly, to the public, that when we’re talking about food being thrown away, we’re not talking about rotten stuff, we’re not talking about stuff that’s beyond the pale. We’re talking about good, fresh food that is being wasted on a colossal scale.
This is interesting, when you think of food waste you might think of scraps of food that can't be eaten. According to the speaker, not only can this food waste be eaten instead of thrown away, it's causing a massive scale of perfectly good that people are just tossing out. I wonder why all this food is just getting tossed.
There are costs to the environment, costs from new health problems like obesity.
While we have been lazily laying on economics to send us to a brighter future, we in turn created some of our worst problems not out of unknowable repercussions, but out of neglect. We neglect the things we used to rely upon because we made living and surviving trivial with more technological and economic successes.
it’s no longer about poor countries and just poverty. It’s about every country.
Will poorer nations be at a disadvantage due to their poorer GDP's? Or is social progress seen more in a societal standpoint relying less on economics to spend their way to progress?
What that tells us, quite simply, is that GDP is not destiny. We have countries that are underperforming on social progress, relative to their wealth.
When it comes to GDP for a nation, does that mean nations of a poorer GDP aren't as capable of making a more social progress, or should GDP be used as a factor at all? From what it seems it isn't much about how much a nation earns, but rather how they use their wealth relative to GDP.
Mindfully respond to others’ ideas (acknowledge someone’s ideas before presenting your own)
In this day and age, many are quick to reject and ignore the ideas of an opposing side, causing divide and distrust. It is important to be respectful and mindful of each other's ideas so we do not harangue and harass them.
We, therefore, pledge to do all that we can, knowing we’ll fail on occasion, to restore compassion to the center of our lives
No matter what happens to us, no matter if we hit a bump in the road, we will stay caring and compassionate to others. Just because we might have a day when we're down doesn't mean we need to drag others down with us.
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical, and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves.
The characteristic of compassion isn't made from just one group of people, it was discovered and practiced all over. Just because we all come from different walks of life, doesn't mean any of us are exempt or unable to show compassion to another human being.