Diploma - Food Nutrition and Livelihood Security
Bsc - Global Nutrition and Public Health
MSc - Nutrition and Rural Development: Human Nutrition
PhD - Public Health
Hi women, can you post pictures or talk about your academic achievements? I need some motivation this month.
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The security lapse in Blantyre is concerning. How can someone get mugged in broad daylight along the highway? Twice in a space of a few days? Why are cars getting attacked at 8 pm along the Magalasi road?
every time someone complains about low birth rates i remember how many women spent the last decade being told they're selfish, ugly, used up, bossy, too educated, too independent, and should settle for less.
weird recruitment strategy.
Yesterday I published this detailed article arguing that women are simply not safe around men. I cited history, data, legal analysis, and meaningful solutions to combat the systemic violence men commit against women.
It is currently approaching 500,000 reads.
Plenty of insecure men have sent me angry messages. But also, plenty of men have sent gratitude for better understanding the systemic violence men impose on women. Read here:
https://t.co/5wfpPNbkfS
@MicMikeMusic@recovery_simp Ntandile has been terrorising the neighbouring areas for about (if not more) than 3 decades now. Something should have been done about it a long time ago, but alas!
In Malawi the whole toilet would be gone by the next day. The remaining ones would stop functioning due to lack of running water and electricity.
I can go on and on about what could go wrong but the bottom line is, this is a great invention that every city needs in abundance.
A French ad company once pitched the city of Paris on a strange deal: let us put ads on your bus stops, and we'll build you public toilets that clean themselves every time someone uses them. Paris now has 435 of them on its sidewalks. Taxpayers paid nothing.
The toilets are called Sanisettes. JCDecaux invented them in 1981 and put the first two near the Centre Pompidou museum. They cost 1 franc back then. The city made them free in 2006. People used them 18 million times in just the first nine months of 2025.
The cleaning is what people film and share. After you walk out, the door locks. The floor swings open. Jets spray the toilet, the walls, and the floor with disinfectant. The whole cabin gets a wash. About 30 seconds later, the door unlocks for the next person. If you try to walk in during the cycle, the door doesn't open. There's also a 15-minute timer inside, so you can't move in.
Cities don't pay for any of this. JCDecaux builds the toilets, installs them, cleans them, and maintains them with their own staff (who, by the way, stay on the job for an average of 18 years). In exchange, the city lets the company sell ads on bus stops, info displays, and other things on the sidewalk. JCDecaux pulled in nearly €4 billion in revenue last year doing this around the world.
This same trade was offered to New York. In 2006, NYC signed a $1.4 billion deal for 20 of these toilets plus 3,300 bus shelters. Two decades later, only 7 toilets are in service. The rest spent years sitting in a warehouse in Queens. The reasons get bureaucratic fast: neighborhood boards rejecting locations, state laws getting in the way, fights over wheelchair access, fights over which agency cleans them. Paris was swapping in 7 new toilets every single week during its 2024 rollout. New York managed 7 in 20 years.
The same model now runs in 28 countries. The full network is 2,500 toilets strong, used by over 30 million people every year. Berlin alone has 278 of them, the second-biggest network in the world. San Francisco, Stockholm, Lagos, and Abidjan all use the same trade. Nobody pays except the advertisers.
A private ad company has been keeping millions of strangers in 28 countries from peeing on the street, for free, for 45 years now. And most cities still can't pull it off.
"How dare women have body autonomy, How dare they choose to not become single mothers that we can ridicule every day.
They are bad people for aborting. If they don't abort but the father leaves, shame on them for being single mothers."
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
@forestofcake The main reason there aren’t more women in these jobs is because men will harass and assault them. It’s not that women can’t do these jobs.
I'm curious to know for how long a car can drive like this. I keep thinking about tyre punctures and how this would ensure that they make it to the workshop.