Political cartoons by Bangladeshis (and others) and an interview about how they’re responding to the tragic factory collapse in Dhaka and its aftermath.
Aspiring global citizen & enthusiastic language learner. Food lover, but newbie cook. Struggling fitness enthusiast, but working on getting back on the track to strength and health.
Wanderlust-ridden skill-seeker. Fun-loving woman with a lot of heart, and hoping to make a mark on the world and got some things to say while I am at it.
Just hoping to stay awesome and keep it all together, in spite of the ever-prevailing sense of impending doom. I mean, have you seen the world lately?
And obviously, a Carlin fan. Also, I love Eddie Izzard, Nathan Fillion, Castle, The Mindy Project, feminism, humanism, human rights for all and a bunch of other stuff.
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Just hoping to stay awesome and keep it all together, in spite of the ever-prevailing sense of impending doom. I mean, have you seen the world lately?
And obviously, a Carlin fan. Also, I love Eddie Izzard, Nathan Fillion, Castle, The Mindy Project, feminism, humanism, human rights for all and a bunch of other stuff.
Stuff I Think About Stuff I Quote Stuff I Cook Stuff I Make Stuff I See Stuff I Read Stuff I Listen To Stuff I Watch Stuff You Wanna Ask
May 3, 2013
May 1, 2013
Photo: Basra, where MSF established an international team in 2008. Iraq 2009 © Khalil Sayyad
Increased Mental Health Care Needed in Iraq
“Many Iraqis have been pushed to their absolute limit,” said Helen O’Neill, MSF’s head of mission in Iraq. “Mentally exhausted by their experiences, many people struggle to understand what is happening to them. The feelings of isolation and hopelessness are compounded by the taboo associated with mental health issues and the lack of mental health care services that people can turn to for help,” she said.
Since 2009, MSF and the IMoH have introduced psychological counseling services in two hospitals in Baghdad and one in Fallujah. The programs focus on non-pharmaceutical approaches to address anxiety and depressive disorders commonly experienced by people exposed to violence and uncertainty. There are plans to replicate this counseling model across the country, with the IMoH starting programs in Kut, Karbala, and Sulaymaniyah hospitals.
This is the kind of thing I want to be working on!
April 20, 2013
WHAT EXACTLY do we want from education: knowledge or skills? If you have the skills you can find your way to knowledge and the real learning of school is not in the textbooks. “The way you structure your class room is central to a child’s learning,” says Preminda Langer, a Delhi-based teacher trainer. “There is something known as habits for life, habitual ways of responding, which usually start being formed before the age of three. This starts at home, over which we have no control. But from three to six, you are in school. Whether it is gender equality, by making girls and boys work and play together or the idea of using your words and not your hands or standing up for yourself or putting something back after you use it, you have to teach it before the age of six and definitely by the age of 10 and then it becomes a habit for life. That way you create citizens who think of the community and beyond themselves.
Relevant. To EVERYTHING that’s been going on, ever.
Where will youth go or what will we do when we have no work and/or no entrepreneurial skills/training? Who do we become?
April 18, 2013
Oh man, I have a one-hour class on communication to organize for my internship clients this morning….. AAAAH.
(Source: systemcomic.com)
March 18, 2013
What I’m always being reminded of
As I go to bed at nearly 3am after finishing yet another presentation for class. Grounded Theory, your ass is MINE!!!
March 14, 2013
This is not relegated to just technology spheres, I’d venture. Even in this day and age.
(Source: jessgartner.com)
March 4, 2013
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
— Kofi Annan
March 1, 2013
"I am a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
— Thomas Jefferson
February 10, 2013
THE ANGRY THERAPIST: Thirties
theangrytherapist:
If you’re single, don’t compare your life to the people around you getting married and having kids. They’re not as happy as you think. If you’re a parent, be present more than anything else. If you’re divorced, embrace it. This is your rebirth. Be kind to your parents. Stop dreaming and start…
MOST DEFINITELY REBLOG.
After all, I’m turning 30 this year.
February 8, 2013
Tried to upload this earlier but it didn’t go through.
Resource-mapping is fun when you have a responsive and enthusiastic group of participants :-)
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cupcakes, made by K, with star sprinkles
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characters in search of their comic strip.
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Marlon Brando in a screen test for “Rebel without a cause”
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