Jessica Lucas's Blog (30)

EVOKE aims to empower, inspire, educate and create an awareness and a desire to make a difference where it is needed and to give all reaches of humanity an equal fighting chance, as well as making sure our planet survives for another 2021 years. Anyone who feels the pull or desire to make a difference and learn more is a member. The desire to take EVOKE seriously and push new boundaries…

It is the middle of the month of March 2021, and most rainforests in South America have dwindled to next to nothing, and people are only realising now what they have done and let happen, and urgent action needs to be taken in order to save what is left, and rebuild the damage that has been done. Eureka and the gang however are on it, and have been planning and implementing for the last 2 months. They…

I think that EVOKE needs to seriously address more pressing environmental issues, the first issue was great in that it looked at humanitarian needs, which are first and foremost. However the environment is dwindling fast and needs urgent attention to be saved. I think that attention needs to be paid to the rain forests of the world, where rare and endangered species live, and deforestation and…

My group of people would be gym/health teachers who would be able to educate adults and children about health safety, washing hands, keeping clean, covering up when sneezing, keeping away from others if sick, boiling water before consuming it, eating healthy fresh foods and so on. Next I would take journalists who would know the right and fastest networks to spread urgent news. Social workers who…

Outbreak Communication: How the Sources See the Story

Communicating the emerging details of an outbreak of pandemic flu to the public—and doing so in a timely manner while maintaining public trust—creates many challenges for those charged with the task. Speaking out of their experiences at two leading health organizations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, respectively, communications specialists…

This is a picture of a wooded box made in my local community, the secret it hides is one of sustainability through proper use of the environement. It is about how communities in the surrounding areas got involved in research projects about giving back to the environment, the research was such a success that it is now implemented and working well, a secret to save the environment that should be carried on…

THE PARTICIPATION OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN THE CONSERVATION OF WETLANDS RESOURCES IN GHANA: THE CASE OF MARINE TURTLE…

I recently attended a talk where one of the leaders and local entrepreneurs of our community spoke to us about the progress of his work on all the alternate power sources he was…

Where I live, in a small town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, power outages, and food and water shortages are a very real threat that the people living here face more and more…

War is an exceptionally difficult time for all those who are affected by it, from the men who fight in it to the women who fix them. However what happens to the women and children left behind, those who have to fight for…

I live in a communal digs, along with four other girls in the town where I study. I feel very privileged to be able to have the opportunity to be able to study at a tertiary level. Twice a week our very loved domestic worker comes to clean our house, and make sure we don’t live in squalor, she looks after us like a mother would, and all five of us have a very soft spot for her, and we are therefore…

This week I chose to follow the story of how WFP(World Food Programme) bought rice from Ghanaian farmers for school meals. WFP has bought US $780,000 of Ghanaian rice for school meals in some of the country’s poorest regions. The programme benefits thousands of school children and local farmers, many of them women, who received a…

01/04/2020

Just this morning the new Grass Roots Environmental and Social Bank (GRESB) of South Africa…

I have been sitting with this week’s act mission for a few days now trying to think what I could try out. Then, the other day, I went with my sister to one of the Souks

here in Dubai, where I currently am, to go and have a look around, as the only

money I had was about Dhs5....which is not very much…

This week I have found a very inspirational social innovation that is “Social Banking” in its truest form, there is no contesting that this way of banking utilises what

banking is actually is and then takes this and uses it as encouragement and

incentive to cultivate and use self-employment activity in order to…

It is the year 2020, and the water crisis is still as huge an issue as it was 10 years ago. Yes there have been improvements in much of Africa, Asia and South America, however Europe,

America and places like the richer Middle East are starting to suffer badly due

to their complete inconsideration for water conservation. However no one can

turn their backs on them, as some from…

This week I felt so inspired by what I discovered through my LEARN Mission that I decided to carry on with that particular project. “The Water Project” as mentioned in my previous blog is a

project dedicated to providing clean and safe water to communities all over the

world, their webpage is very well set out and gives potential donators and

volunteers all the help they need…