Part 1:My story last 2 days,more than 10 hrs at JKIA with an anticipation to travel to France for the #TransformingEducation summit ,The ever visa & documentation injustices 2 refugees unfolded on me,frustratingly i was denied check in to depart to france just because of …
A lot of people have a “If you had told me five years ago that I’d be here doing this…” story. But very few can compare to Manyang Lual Jok’s incredible tale.
https://t.co/z1495hFCfT #McGillGrad@McGillARTS
For the first time in history, the world’s top architecture prize (Pritzker) has gone to a black winner - Diébédo Francis Kéré of Burkina Faso. His buildings are a true testament to the beauty of working for and with local communities, local materials, and homegrown uniqueness.
To progressive spaces:
Speaking from the heart is not speaking from the arse.
Inviting people with 'lived experience' to your events, to speak for free, on the assumption it is not 'work , is exploitation.
Period.
Everywhere in the world that you go, people always organise around one thing:
Anti-Blackness.
This is exactly why we say that being Black is a particular experience and is separate to being a person of colour. The experience is distinct & unmatched.
The way South Sudanese girls are denied their childhood is so sad to witness. You will have a family with 5 grown 25+ year old men but it’s the 14 year old girl child who will literally carry the family on her back (laundry, cleaning, cooking, caring for the younger ones etc)🤦🏿♀️
Tomorrow , I will be speaking and enjoying a good time discussing the importance of social movements in the development work : NOTHING FOR US , WITHOUT US , It will be a great session alongside this amazing panelists🤩😍 .
#WUSCforum2022 .
To Register : https://t.co/9z9tdsifUN
It was amazing sharing and learning from both Education advocates and UN decision makers. It is my view that for the 2022 Transformational Education Summit to impactful youth innovation &creativity should be central to the summit. They play a key role in policy implementation.
Sometimes you don’t realize how privileged you are to regularly be in an environment where it’s normal to dream big—and how much of a difference that can make
Can digital skills💻create livelihoods for forcibly displaced youth ⁉️
Caroline- @muthoninjuki -will share PROSPECTS' experience of working with #YOUTH in the digital world on 12 December at #rewired2021
Register now: https://t.co/UCkIIPoBmi