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In ten years the women I have helped will be in one of two possible futures: (1) they will be working as nurses in a hospital, helping the sickly and needy and taking care of the newborn and the elderly. This will fill me with pride, as I would know that it was in a small part thanks to my instruction that they are able to help people further. The second situation is (2) they will have continued on to graduate studies and will be working on their Ph.D. in nursing or in their M.D.… Continue

I help empower women every day. I work as a professor in a local post-secondary institution. However, it's not a regular "university". This institution is geared towards low-income, poor, disadvantaged students. Our main students are single mothers with a low level of education, women who are trapped in harmful relationships, and some men who need rehabilitation. By catering to this population we are helping people who would otherwise be victims become empowered, learn a profession, and break… Continue

Too Big To Fail Bank has just opened its doors to the citizens of the world. As much as one would wish that these are great news, they are not. Promising to make a total revenue of 20% of the entire world's GDP, Chuck Grassley's new bank offers large loans to people who can't afford to pay them back. They are, furthermore, offering to lend developing countries large amounts of money in exchange for the devaluation of their local currencies and control over their public utilities. Having joined… Continue

In a previous post I talked about making a large man-made river go across the Sahara Desert to make the land fertile. My water crisis celebration for 2020 would be to hold a competition of who can swim across the river first. The winner gets free water services for a year.