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  1. Apr 2021
    1. At my first enrollment, I had hoped for 10 girls. 100 came.

      The work she does is incredibly important. It's super inspiring to see that harmful traditions can indeed be changed, and changing them will transform the whole community into a better version of itself. I love how Ntaiya's work includes and involves the whole community so that they can instantly see the benefits of change. The world needs to see this and I see her as a hero. This continued narrative that women need helping and empowerment because they for some reason need this more than men is just continuing to make women feel less than men. It doesn't empower them at all. Empower a PERSON and empower a community.

    2. 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.

      The training of girls improves societies and decreases inequalities. It helps to make society more prosperous and sustainable and offers every individual, including boys and men, the possibility to achieve their potential. But girls' education is more than just school access. It is all about girls in classrooms feeling secure and supporting in their subjects and careers. Honestly, when I learned about similar cases of young girls not receiving equal education, it just is not fair. The way I see it is all humans are the same equally and should be respected and be valued as such. I understand that Faith's family wanted to potentially keep her away from education due to it being uncommon or illegal during that time. I admire Faith's passion at a young age to push more and more.

    3. To empower girls, you need to educate them. That was my dream. And so I built a school, and in the process, I learned something much bigger. When you empower a girl, you transform a community. School is just a start.

      Economic empowerment for women is important in achieving women's rights and equality between men and women. Women's economic equality requires the opportunity for women to compete fairly in current businesses; women's ownership and management of production resources; access to respectable jobs, self-control, lives, and bodies; and expanded voices, agencies, and active representation in both domestic and foreign policymaking. Economies are growing as more women work. Economic empowerment for women promotes growth, economic diversification and redistribution of wealth, and other beneficial consequences for sustainability. Economic empowerment for women is good for the business. Companies are gaining significantly from increased job prospects and women's leadership, which has shown increased corporate efficiency and development. In all aspects of corporate success, organizations have three or more females in top management, functions are estimated to achieve better results.

  2. Mar 2021
    1. I went to one of the local supermarkets that I often visit to inspect, if you like, what they’re throwing away.

      This is a similar cycle that donuts go through. They are made early then thrown out mid- late day. They are thrown away in big trash bags that are just filled with 1-2 day old donuts. It honestly is just free food going to waste and I've always wanted to question it. This can be the case for almost any food chain restaurant.

    2. As a country gets richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into its shops and restaurants,

      As with the environmental and health indicators,most social and economic outcomes reflect complex causal processes, and they can vary widely based on time period, spatial organization, market conditions, regulatory forces, and adaptive mechanisms of actors in the system. In this section, we outline major classes of social and economic effects that can be linked to characteristics of the U.S. food system and present summary information about the overall performance of the system. It can be found from three large social and economic effects of income, wealth and distribution, wider quality of life indicators, such as conditions of work, job satisfaction and the freedom of choice to follow preferences of tastes and lifestyles (associated health and well-being effects of workers).

    3. The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, “Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.” I went to the local baker and took their stale bread. I went to the local greengrocer, and I went to a farmer who was throwing away potatoes because they were the wrong shape or size for supermarkets. This was great. My pigs turned that food waste into delicious pork. I sold that pork to my school friends’ parents, and I made a good pocket money addition to my teenage allowance.

      This idea kind of reminded me of a lemonade stand. It was a business idea that a lot of kids started at a young age to gain extra money. I think this plan was innovative, successful and different. Others may not have a realization that one mans trash is another mans treasure. Stuart was able to utilize everything and take advantage of his opportunities'. This kind of opened his eyes towards the "scandal". I actually knew people that did something similar when we were roughly age 15 and made a profit off chickens.

  3. Feb 2021
    1. it’s no longer about poor countries and just poverty. It’s about every country.

      This reminded me a little about sports. Coaches would say the team is only as strong as their weakest player. In this case the players are countries and the team is the earth. Beneficial to the world, to have the "team to play good" everyone needs to be on the same page, respect and value each other. This makes for a good culture. There cannot just be simply bad players and good players. Everyone must contribute and better themselves.

    2. What do we have to get to achieve the Global Goals?

      In order to reach global goals, we first need to utilize sustainability.This means achieving the minimum quality of life standards for the whole population. Good quality of life measures are enclosed in the Human Development Index developed by the UN and achieving a universal target of 0.8 HDI has been set as a social and economic target for sustainability. This however has to be achieved within environmental limitations. Environmental limitations are defined in science as planetary boundaries. Instead, a simple measure of environmental limitation is ecological footprint per person. This captures the amount of physical space in global hectares required to sustain a “good” lifestyle.

    3. Do you think the world is going to be a better place next year? In the next decade? Can we end hunger, achieve gender equality, halt climate change, all in the next 15 years?

      Realistically speaking, I think the world will never be truly perfect.I feel like there is simply just not enough time to resolve every little obstacle. It requires all nations and peoples to take an agreed movement such as controlled climate action, reduce unemployment, strengthen gender equality and promote peaceful societies. As well, several individuals will always have a different outlook. People like to do things that benefit them, its human nature for someone to be self-serving. In recent events, The 2021 storming of the United States Capitol was a riot and violent attack against the US Congress because the previous president lost. We cannot even have a regular simple election without someone getting upset.