Social Development
Social Development
If you work in with social enterprise, the humanitarian sector or any sector where you ‘sell’ intangible products like emotional connection, one observation you quickly make is that your pitch is delivered to one of these types of listeners: the skeptics, the critics or the enthusiasts. It is the same if you are making an […]
From The Trenches of Face-to-face Fundraising Read More »
Even though people generally view conflict as a negative thing, it can actually turn out to be a good thing. Conflict is good for stimulating new thoughts, for promoting social change, for defining group relationships, for helping us form our own senses of personal identity, and for many other things we take for granted. In
Crisis Interventon: Women Arbitratng Peace in Rural Eastern Nigeria. Read More »
A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a friend who brought up an Instagram “debate” about microaggressions in our school we had been a part of two years ago. She shared some screenshots of said debate, and the more we looked through them, the more we realized retrospectively that it was far
To reference the author Chinua Achebe: “Until the lion tells its own story, the hunt will always glorify the hunter” For a long time, the story of women migration has been prominently told through a narrow lens. When we speak of women from the “Global South” migrating irregularly, the conversation almost instantly shifts to “smuggling”
Women and Migration: Overcoming Fears with Courage! Read More »
Each time I walk past the door to the room my mother occupied, I feel the emotional weight of a sticker that reads: “Home is not home without Mom.” If you have ever lost someone close to you, you live with two realizations: that you will never see that person in physical form again, and
Artivism: Exposing the Cracks to Save the Future Read More »
The gap that exists between goals and opportunities is at the core of Robert Merton’s Social Strain Theory which argues that social structures may pressure citizens to commit crimes or experience intense psychological stress. “Strain” occurs when there is a mismatch between society’s expectations of success and the legitimate means available to reach them. Real-world
Baking Bread in the Friction: Navigating Social Strain. Read More »
While traditional metrics of development often use GDP and commerce as the gold standard for measuring a nation’s progress, they frequently overlook the invisible framework upon which society is built: Social Capital. This network of relations, shared values, and trust serves as a powerful counter-metric to traditional economic indices. Social capital provides the essential framework
Social Capital: The New Global Currency Read More »
Photo: Lucas Andrade The growing social media fraud (SMF) among students in Nigeria presents a significant concern that questions the integrity of the system and the ethical standard of the younger generation. Notwithstanding the collective efforts by the government and educational institutions to check the dangers, the challenge continues to linger, pointing to a possible
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Photo by: Lucas Andrade. Violence within local communities can take various forms such as, verbal abuse, physical harm or cultural and sexual violence. Violence such as physical harm are predominant in many rural communities in some countries of West Africa. It is a behaviour or an act that uses force to inflict physical or psychological
Individual Crises As Symptoms of Systemic Failure. Read More »
The custom from earlier times which promotes the belief that one must “WORK HARD” for continued existence often leads to ignoring the rationale behind it. The human condition that focuses on “keeping the lights on” is exercised in the everyday life. When we are locked in the daily chase that prioritizes securing the immediate present