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  1. Nov 2020
    1. 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. Then she walked five miles, clenching that pencil, trying to enroll. She arrived –

      Girls like Faith never gave up in believing she can find more opportunities in her life by seeking education, what she did is really brave and it's harsh knowing that she had to do what she did to just try to enroll into class.

    2. At my first enrollment, I had hoped for 10 girls. 100 came.

      The speaker expected a small amount of girls to come for enrollment but instead 10 times the amount she expected came which speaks volumes on how big of a situation FGM is and how many young girls want to get away from it and seek more better opportunities.

    3. When you empower a girl, you transform a community.

      This statement is such a powerful line because by allowing girls the freedom to seek education in schooling, etc; your making it possible for both genders to become equals within a community since in some third world countries, girls don't have that chance to get an education.

  2. Oct 2020
    1. Go one step up, and you get to farmers, who throw away sometimes a third or even more of their harvest because of cosmetic standards.

      This is such a harmful way of dictating what gets fed to the public and I can't believe some farmers could actually think this. It wasn't a matter of the food being edible but the matter of the food fitting the cosmetic standard!? For people in need, that food would have benefit them no matter the appearance so this way of thinking does not make any sense to me.

    2. One morning, when I was feeding my pigs, I noticed a particularly tasty-looking sun-dried tomato loaf that used to crop up from time to time. I grabbed hold of it, sat down, and ate my breakfast with my pigs. (Laughter) That was the first act of what I later learned to call freeganism, really an exhibition of the injustice of food waste, and the provision of the solution to food waste, which is simply to sit down and eat food, rather than throwing it away.

      Instead of letting food go to waste, the author expressed his way of coping with the injustice of food waste by simply sitting down and eating the food. A simple action had a huge meaning behind on what he's trying to accomplish. Plus sitting down and eating breakfast with your pigs is such a wholesome thing to do.

    3. But I noticed that most of the food that I was giving my pigs was in fact fit for human consumption,

      A small sentence like this has a huge significance and probably was the biggest realization the author ever had. Food that would have been someone's actual meal for the day went towards being scrap food for pigs. A realization he made at such a young age.

  3. Sep 2020
    1. So that’s the bad news. We’re not going to get to the Global Goals just by getting richer.

      Getting richer isn't a way to solve all the social problem one country can face. Money can't solve everything, some problems need to be approach through communication and heart rather than just a giant paycheck.

    2. The Social Progress Index basically asks three fundamental questions about a society. First of all, does everyone have the basic needs of survival: food, water, shelter, safety? Secondly, does everyone have the building blocks of a better life: education, information, health and a sustainable environment? And does everyone have the opportunity to improve their lives, through rights, freedom of choice, freedom from discrimination, and access to the world’s most advanced knowledge?

      Most countries don't have the opportunities to at least have all the resources needed in the Social Progress Index. The third fundamental question is the scariest one to ponder about in my opinion, it's possible that your rights, freedom of choice, and opportunities to succeed can never be given to you which impacts the first two questions about food necessities and environment.

    3. But that ain’t easy, because the Global Goals aren’t just ambitious, they’re also pretty complicated. Over 17 goals, there are then 169 targets and literally hundreds of indicators. Also, while some of the goals are pretty specific — end hunger — others are a lot vaguer — promote peaceful and tolerant societies.

      The idea of the SGDs trying to solve 17 goals is a giant task at hand; with some of them carry very vague end goals. "Promoting peaceful and tolerant societies" are much more complicated than simply "ending hunger". I believe that the specific tasks can greatly affect the other tasks in a good way, other countries providing resources to less fortunate countries in need could make relations between them good.

  4. Aug 2020
    1. Listen attentively and intently (with intention to understand) first, and forming an opinion after you fully understand their point of view

      In this day in age where people like to say their opinion first without the intent of listening to others afterwords lead to strife that have other wise been avoided.

    2. Take responsibility for the effects of your words and actions on others, even when your intentions were not to cause them harm

      Others can take things the wrong way even when you don't mean them so being compassionate means to also see things from their point of view and respecting them.

    3. 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 idea about being passionate towards others no matter how we look, who we are, and what we believe in is what makes us definitely human; but sadly some people in the world are that heartless and cruel.