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Interns!
They come in with fresh ideas and questions, full of energy and creativity. They are eager to learn and to gain new skills.
Girls’ education: A Mother’s Legacy
“If you go to school with your brothers, who will help me with the household work?"
Boosting nutrition and women’s empowerment through home gardening
At the end of the trial, we found a significant difference in diet diversity and quantity of nutritious food consumed by women and children compared to the control group.
Which is more fearsome: tigers or cars?
On 29 July we celebrate International Tiger Day in Dhaka. This raises the question: how would you prefer to die, by tiger attack or by poison?
Does anyone actually eat this stuff?
Tobacco, alcohol, junk food, sugary beverages—at least part of their appeal is how heavily they are pushed.
Viva adolescent health!
This conference was a call to action for government and NGOs to tackle the barriers preventing adolescents from achieving optimal health.
Bidis or bananas?
Activists have to learn to argue the case for tobacco taxation, so that bananas will no longer be cheaper than bidis (hand-rolled cigarettes).
Learning to eat right
I’m working with interns at the Institute of Wellbeing to start developing guidelines for school and university canteens that will be better for both health and the environment.
Exercising our need to socialize
How great it is when morning exercise is not only healthy and enjoyable, but a way to reconnect with others in our busy lives!
Development stories with love?
Who says rural villages in Nepal can’t have great, love stories? And that I can’t write about them?