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COVID-19; A Threat to Our Future Generations?
If you are a high school student, you know that every and any information spreads like wildfire. From gossips to the expected grades, chances are that every student is aware of them. Then it was of no surprise that the rumors of school closing because of COVID-19 were also being talked about in every class. At first, the teachers would try to end the discussion itself by holding up their hands or rolling their eyes. However, when the coronavirus became a common theme of discussion, there was a hint of panic in everyone's voice. Almost every school in the nearby districts were closing, and I...
QUALITY EDUCATION
POEM: QUALITY EDUCATION Education They Say Is An Enlightening Experience It Is Present All Over The World But Most People In Africa Can't Harness Due To Negligence African Youths, We All Need Quality EducationThat Will Lead Up To University Graduation An Education Which We Have To Study Hard To Even Pass Our Examination But How Can There Be Quality Education? When The Educational System Has Too Much Corruption, Like Spying And Bribery. How Can We Achieve It When The Gravity And Dishonesty Of Our Teachers And Students To Me Is Termed As Academic Robbery Oh No! This To Me Is Cruelty When I See...
The Right to Education of Children and Youth
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the youth and children, especially those from Africa and other developing countries, cannot be underestimated. The issues of travel bans and public transport means, prohibitation of social gatherings and quarantines significantly impact education at all levels, both within countries and internationally. Developing countries have less robust education systems that may significantly experience breakdowns of their education at all levels, while the desire of most young Africans to acquire formal education will be crushed. The most immediate remedy to...
The Starved Land
Jet streams streak across the azure blue sky. The only sign of human activity anywhere kilometres around. Clouds are almost nonexistent on the clear horizon. The tall trees and Murray pines of long ago cleared by our forebears. The landscape lies stripped naked in many large patches. Mother Earth attempts to take back what she can. Desolate shrubbery does little. Driving through this scenery has always been a surreal experience. Even a feeble clump of few trees is a welcome sight. A strange occurrence comes with the changes we've made here. Finding the lifeblood of this lifeless wilderness is...
Food - A Way Of Life
Imagine this for a second. What if everyone on earth stopped eating meat tomorrow? Forever. Does that sound like a dream come true? Or a nightmare? It appears to be a great answer to damaging gases in the atmosphere. Yet, is it? Would stripping this from our earth solve climate change? No, it's only one part of a deeper problem. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, of all total carbon emissions produced in the US in 2017, agriculture only contributed 9%. The top three contributors were transportation (29%), electricity (28%), and industrial usages, (22%). Private cars appear...
Storm and Fire
I see the fires raging, the fumes blanketing the skies. I hear a continent screaming, as its perishing ecosystem sighs. The powerless koalas are burning, unable to outrun the flames. The does and joeys are embracing over a charred buck's remains. The mighty glaciers are melting, tumbling down to the seas, and the little islands are drowning, as we go up a few degrees. The helpless turtles are emerging with plastic in their throats, and the lively dolphins are choking, no longer chasing the steamboats. The coral reefs are vanishing, and with them, our oxygen supplies. And the earth's balance is...
Little Steps for Bigger Change
Climate change is the most important issue of the present era. It is an open secret that climate change is a serious danger to humans, because all human on Earth need a healthy environment to live, including healthy air, water, and sanitation. Lately, I discovered that climate change is not only harming the environment but our mental health also. Climate change damages and decreases our mental health due through heat waves, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, which can cause us to develop stress disorders, anxiety, and even PTSD. This was found to have happened to the survivors of...
Transforming Education for Gender Equality
Education is vital, especially for this generation in a changing world, but it faces major problems in relation to gender equality. As we all know, gender equality means giving opportunities to both men and women without regard to sex, so that they are treated and supported equality. In the context of education systems, gender equality should ensure that female and male learners are treated equality, and have equal access to learning and its benefits. However, some regions and countries still see this as a trivial problem, which is a cause for concern. Because we receive at a young age...
Stop Caring About Your Grades So Much
Let’s take a look at my younger self: I was taking several difficult courses at my school and would stress out about my advanced physics course nearly every night. I was constantly down about my academic performance - bringing my productivity to an all time low. But now I ask myself, how has getting that grade helped me? All I’ve gained from those countless hours of studying is a few digits added to my GPA. And if that’s something you’re fixated on, I urge you to stop for a second. Because, you might be caught in a ubiquitous trap without even realizing it. It’s the mentality that I myself was...
How to Become a Youth Activist: Q&A With Matthew Tikhonovsky
If you are like me, you want to get involved with activism and fight for causes you believe in. Like me, you might be passionate about a particular issue or movement, ranging from climate change to racial injustice, but you don’t know where to start or how to get involved. Luckily, I’m here to help. For the next month, I’ll be interviewing youth activists who have made a positive change in their communities and sharing their secrets and insights. For the first interview, I chatted with Matthew Tikhonovsky, an American youth activist who is passionate about refugee advocacy. He is the founder...
My routine as a 13 year old in Brazil
The first time my parents told me that schools were going to close because of covid-19, I was upset because I didn't want to stay home all the time without seeing my friends. Then I understood the severity of the disease so I accepted that I would have to stay home for a while. I think what made me accept that I was going to stay at home was the fact that I had no other choice, but now I feel like I don't want to leave. My routine in relation to my studies is practically the same, I wake up at 12 a.m. and I will go straight to lunch, then I spend about 4 hours doing the school tasks. And then...
Learning at home in Bangladesh amid COVID-19 crisis
I am a boy of SOS Youth House Khulna and live in a boarding house at Dhaka. I am studying B.Sc. Engineering in Textile in Daffodil International University. Just after the completion of my 2nd year mid-final exam, the coronavirus (COVID-19) started breaking out in different parts of the world and my university got closed. Our boarding house was made vacant. Then I returned to SOS Youth House Khulna to stay for some days to keep myself safe from Coronavirus. We have been home quarantined for 16 days. At the beginning, I was stressed thinking about my study. Our teachers declared that our...
We must take precautions for the climate crisis
There's a simple way to avoid the problems that are happening in our world - reducing the release of activated carbon. This pollution is damaging both human health and our planet. Any kind of poison thrown into nature seeps into human Biosystems in the same way. And human beings are desperate to use all modern medicine to remove this poison from the ecosystem. But if we had made this effort all along to stop the climate crisis, we wouldn't be so helpless against nature today. We must never forget: from the smallest micro to the largest macro system, we are all parts of a whole. The destruction...
Are we or are we not?
When I first joined the Fridays for Future climate activists movement I was so unaware of what was yet to come, but that's a story for another time. This Blog is here to tell the people that our world is falling apart, this is our own distress signal, the emergency call that nature made. Each day, each week, each month, each year there is a constant damage done to the one planet that keeps us alive and breathing. Are we constantly going to ruin it? If yes, are we prepared for every counter measure that will be taken against us? This is the one question that should be on everyone's mind. Are we...
Climate Action and COVID-19: time for the green ideas
It is time to unite behind the science and save lives
From anxiety to agency: how to step up, rather than shut down, in the face of crisis
Support The Youth & The Children
“Something like this hasn’t happened since 1945!”... These were the last words my history teacher told me and the whole class before school was officially closed. Now weeks have passed and I have heard nothing from her or anyone else. Is everything alright? Is someone sick? Did something happen? So many questions are going through my head and most of them are unpredictable thoughts. I do not only mean that I worry about the people I know and care about. I basically meant every human being – because we are one unity and everyone should respect and support another! But how can we be united in...
A wake up call
They always thought they could outsmart nature, well look how that’s gone. Everyone’s talking about how people are dying and the number of the infected. Oh how the tables have turned, our hell has become nature’s paradise. No pollution, nature isn’t being destroyed, empty streets so all in all, a peaceful world. A world where humans aren’t disrupting the balance of nature, one where animals aren’t being treated cruelly, one where nature dominates everything. The ideas of industrialisation and economic growth have blinded man in such a way that he starts destroying the very force that gave him...