Showing posts from: On Our Minds
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Greetings from Mission Talent, 2019!
At the start of a new year Now that 2019 is rapidly getting underway, we hope this mail finds you back at your ...
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Visiting African Prisons Project at Kamiti Prison in Kenya
Nervousness hit me when I read the email from the Africa Prisons Project: “Kamiti is a male maximum security prison… [Visitors] should avoid being ...
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I’m not an engineer, an ecologist or a doctor. So here’s how I make a difference.
In 2003, I was an intern in New York City and I went to see Jeffrey Sachs (then director of the Earth Institute ...
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From Silos to Movement
The first ever Mix’n’Talent event brought forward a range of crucial reflections on how the civil society sector can drive social change in ...
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Leading Change in Uncertain Times
Faced with challenges such as political uncertainty, climate change and a global humanitarian and refugee crisis – how can we effectively drive social ...
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Organisational Languages
The other day I was arranging a few matters with a client. There were a number of terms she used during our communication ...
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We are Africans and we are rising for justice, peace and dignity
A great initiative is happening today throughout Africa, attempting to garner pan-African solidarity towards ‘calling out our leaders on (Africa’s) failures and building ...
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Women’s Marches
On the day after the American people voted last year I avoided the news and Facebook. Last Friday, people on my Facebook timeline ...
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How to campaign for the future
Have you heard? It’s 2015; the Millennium Development Goals are up, the Sustainable Development Goals are on and governments are supposed to agree ...