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10 Ways Living With Integrity Benefits Your Community

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10 Ways Living With Integrity Benefits Your Community

Having interacted with many children over the course of my community empowerment work, I have come to realize that kids pick up most of their values from their environment. By being ethical, we are planting a seed of integrity in our future generations that will bear the fruit of prosperity and sustainability in their communities. Most young people are at a disadvantage in the job market when employers practice unethical behavior. Ethical employers create a level playing field for the youth, enabling them to secure jobs and contribute to building their community.

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He’s Educating His Peers In The DRC About The Cost Of Deforestation

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He’s Educating His Peers In The DRC About The Cost Of Deforestation

“My favorite part of the session was the discussion and hearing participants’ feedback,” Alexandre says. “The conversations indicated to me that the course was an important one and that participants were excited to change their communities.For his session, Alexandre chose to focus on the YALI Network Online Course “Agripreneurship: A Path to the Future” (also available in French), which explores the intricacies of the agricultural value chain and the role young leaders can play in the agribusiness sector.

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Your Top Five Integrity Questions, Answered

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Your Top Five Integrity Questions, Answered

I want to learn how to be a committed, transparent, and accountable leader even when I’m faced with a lot of oppositions and feel like giving up. It’s really challenging being an honest leader. Is it possible to have an honest and incorruptible leader? I would love to better understand how to change the youth mindset from being violent and radical to being peaceful, especially during a period of conflict in my region.

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Challenge Yourself To Empower Others, Says One Young Leader In Cameroon

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Challenge Yourself To Empower Others, Says One Young Leader In Cameroon

It wasn’t until her conversation with a group of secondary school students years ago, though, that she realized how she might educate the next generation in new ways. “I asked this group of students about the cause of the high temperatures we were experiencing, and none of them could give me an answer,” Njapen says. “They had no knowledge of climate change. I wanted to educate them not only about climate change as a concept but also about how we as humans are contributing to the problem.”

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She’s Helping Mothers Access Affordable, Mobile Ultrasounds

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She’s Helping Mothers Access Affordable, Mobile Ultrasounds

“Many young adults shy away from health education, especially when it comes to sexual and reproductive health,” Phyllis says. “Getting them to participate is a big challenge. In Uganda, many people are also not Informed about different family planning methods. That’s why we need health education to challenge misconceptions and make an impact. With these tools in hand, women across the country are better equipped to learn about and discuss critical health topics.

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Meet The Young Woman In Uganda Advocating For Women’s Health. Her Secret? Love What You Do.

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Meet The Young Woman In Uganda Advocating For Women’s Health. Her Secret? Love What You Do.

“In my four years of clinical practice, I witnessed how much misinformation resulted in serious health problems for the public,” Brenda says. “Health education matters a lot in Uganda because the prevalence of infectious and non-communicable diseases is still very high.”Indeed, the prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and cancer has increased rapidly in years past, accounting for 35 percent of the country’s deaths in 2014, according to the World Health Organization.

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It’s Invisible, But Devastating: Mental Illness In Nigeria

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It’s Invisible, But Devastating: Mental Illness In Nigeria

In fact, it is estimated that 5.4% of the population in the African region suffers from a depressive disorder and just over 3%, an anxiety disorder, according to a 2017 study by the World Health Organization (PDF, 1.7MB).To address this, Rukayya is working to educate her peers about the emotional intricacy of illnesses such as anxiety that are unseen and, as she explains, unnoticed. To this, she adds that mental health advocates suffering from anxiety or depression should take care of themselves before attempting to change others’ minds.

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Meet The Man Standing Up For Orphans In Nigeria

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Meet The Man Standing Up For Orphans In Nigeria

“Years ago I visited an orphanage in southwest Nigeria; that’s where I met Ruth, a 10-year-old girl with a hunger-stricken frame and infected with ringworm. Ruth was one of 50 children in that tiny orphanage. These kids were in desperate need of food and medical help.”After meeting Ruth, Olugbenga began assembling volunteers to help orphans across the state. In November 2019, Olugbenga took his initiative a step further and organized a YALILearns session on financial planning.

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Her Online Courses Are Empowering Young Mothers In Zimbabwe

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Her Online Courses Are Empowering Young Mothers In Zimbabwe

“One challenge we faced is that new mothers don’t have the time to take antenatal classes,” Joy says. “So we decided to put our classes online.As new parents, it’s important to have as much information as possible about pregnancy, labour, and birth. Midwives are instrumental in this, teaching mothers not only how to handle and nurse their babies, but also what to expect as new mothers — services doctors can be too busy to provide.”

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She’s Devoted Her Life To Advocating For Women. It All Started With One Conversation.

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She’s Devoted Her Life To Advocating For Women. It All Started With One Conversation.

“I began my work in the men’s ward and, when I was transferred to the women’s section, I saw that women were suffering from severe conditions, but it wasn’t the conditions themselves at issue, but the culture. Mahlet’s interest in the field stems, in part, from her early work in hospitals in the city and the great gender disparity she witnessed there. The group’s latest work has included organizing pledge drives for cancer patients, distributing flyers about the risk factors associated with breast cancer, and holding the first public discussion in Addis Ababa about sexual harassment in the health sector.