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In recent years microfinance organizations have become a popular way for US Americans to support entrepreneurship and small businesses in the developing world. I first learned about the concept a few years ago from a friend who showed me the website kiva.org. At the time I was a student on […]

Why not replace the societal paradigm of man and woman being a contrast to one another to complementing one another? Both must work together to live a healthy life and to form a happy society. Pakistani women are living capsuled lives; experiencing double pressures from society and the men they […]

Here in Bulgaria the International Women’s Day is humorously called “The Florist’s Day.” Since the early morning hours, flower retailers suddenly start occupying the streets and offering their merchandise at a double or triple price. Bulgaria has a long tradition of celebrating March 8, dating back from Communist times and […]

One week before the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires the state of Victoria cooked like never before.  On three consecutive days in late January the temperature exceeded 43 °C / 109 °F, scorching an already desiccated land and laying the foundations for the worst bushfires in Australian history.  On the fateful day […]

I have been taught differently by my family and society. While my parents – who value education and equal status of human being regardless of sex – brought me to today’s higher education the same as my brother, my society distracted me into a mixed environment where any step to […]