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Mental health
Mental health can be frightening, we don't know how to handle it at first, and it's very confusing. Most of us never want to admit when we're not feeling great and asking for help can be the hardest part. It's ok to not to feel ok, but admitting it to yourself and others is not as easy as they say. We always hear what we should do and how we should handle it, but when we're "down", we don't want to admit it and we hide how we actually feel and act as if nothing happened, almost always. It's easier to go to someone you know to talk to, or at least it should be, but we're ashamed of how we feel...
Let's talk about mental health
World Children’s Day 2022: listen to the voices of young people advocating for inclusion and fighting discrimination
The Beauty of Sharing
At the start of the Pandemic I had a lot of spare time, so I created personal goals to challenge myself. I wanted to be an intellectual person, an agent of change, and a social person that changes my surroundings for the better. To get started on my third goal, I wanted to try to raise money for people that were affected by the Pandemic. So on my 11th birthday, I doodled two art pieces to crowdfund my project. The media helped in raising awareness about the project. After all the donations, I was able to secure 100 packages that were filled with food that I donated to the people impacted by...
Autonomy and Resistance
My story, my testimony
Inclusion is integration
LGBTQ+ rights advocate Ruairí Holohan reimagines a world with no discrimination
Be the voice of the voiceless- Animal cruelty
Do you consider yourself an animal lover? Have you ever taken a step forward and purchased an “animal-cruelty free” product? If so, what do you do when the same animals are subjected to torture? As a child being brought up in a small town of KP Pakistan, I saw teenagers hurling rocks at stray dogs and cats who ached and voiced their pain. Back then, my 10-year-old self clenched her dress with tiny hands and repeatedly, incessantly, called out the teenagers to stop. Tiny voices like mine were not powerful enough to suppress and bury the callousness of animal cruelty. Every now and then, a...
I’d like to say “Thank You” #IFeltIncluded
Inclusion (noun): “the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure.” Is the world a safe place for everyone to be the truest version of themselves? I would say that it isn’t – and that we have a long way to go. However, just as important as planning ahead is trying to realize how far we’ve come. In order to find the strength to keep on moving, we need to acknowledge and appreciate all the effort we already put into our work, and how it influenced the outcome. The #IFeltIncluded is a way to portray exactly that for me. Sometimes, it’s tough to get out of your...
Brightening the tunnel for those in the dark
Education is a right for every child
As a child and a youth activist who grew up in a developing country, a country where not every child has access to quality education, I have developed a passion to raise awareness and help promote quality education to all children in my society and worldwide . My name is Omary Mwesongo and I grew up in Tanzania. I have obtained the most quality education my parents could offer me. But I haven't been happy with the education that I got and which I am still getting because millions of children in Tanzania and beyond have no access to quality education due to different social-economical and...
These are the issues young people cared about in 2022
Home isn’t Home Anymore
The thing that many people feel now is that home is no longer homey. When the home does not feel like a home, the party that feels disadvantaged will end up feeling lonely. I had a conversation with my friends about it, and they turned out to feel the same. They are not really close with their parents either. The complexity within them makes it difficult to be open to the people around them. Some say, "I can't tell others because they will only compare the problems they face with mine and consider me weak." This caused fear and made them feel worse. However, from the parents' side, they might...
A Kind Word
Kindness, a virtue so rare, A trait that should be beyond compare, It's the little things that make a big difference, A smile, a touch, a word of persistence. It's the way you treat others with respect, It's the way you make them feel, It's the way you lend a helping hand, It's the way you give without demands. It's the way you listen with an open heart, It's the way you show that you care, It's the way you spread joy and love, It's the way you rise above. So let's all strive to be kind, In every thought, word, and deed, For when we are kind to one another, We plant the seeds of love and joy...
PEOPLE
Being writers we tend to contemplate everything we come across. One such thing is the people we come across every day. They are a rather spongy thing. People can be beautiful, ugly, or carry a whole array of features, but one thing is common to all – they are selfish. I have stopped trusting them and I am afraid that all of my hard work at changing this world might disappear into thin air once I disagree with them. Personally, I have always admired still, lifeless and immobile objects (exception: animals and plants), because they don't scare me at all. They can be observed, they can be talked...