Much of the current enthusiasm for data focuses on technologies that make it easier to present. Sure, you can pay a company a monthly fee for data visualization tools, but why do that when we can invest in the skills of our employees?
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We just spent the last week steeped in comprehensive workshops, productive conversations, and exciting brainstorming with every single one of our staff members here in Zambia.
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This week's field journal comes from Isabelle Hürst, our partner from COMUNDO! COMUNDO places professional individuals with a thirst for building capacity in developing countries with partner organizations.
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2.2 billion people around the globe still lack access to safe, drinkable water, many spending vast amounts of energy and time collecting water from sources far from their homes and communities. In Africa alone, women spend 40 billion hours per year collecting water, according to the UN.
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Back in 2016, the MacArthur Foundation started a competition that was the largest of its kind – 100 million and change, where one winning proposal would win $100 million to solve a critical problem of our time.
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Michael Jordan once said: I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I´ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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There is strong evidence that high-quality infrastructure facilitates better instruction, improves student outcomes, and reduces dropout rates, among other benefits.
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This week, I came across an article on baseball sensation Mo’ne Davis. Davis is the first girl to earn a win and pitch a shout out in Little League World Series history, and only the fourth American girl to play in the Little League World Series at all!
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Last month saw the culmination of 4 months and 1,800 games of league netball in the Impact Network NetGirls Zambia League as 100 teams were whittled down to just 4 Junior and 4 Varsity teams competing in the Playoffs to become 2019 Champions.
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My son has been obsessed with this children’s book by Misty Copeland over the last few weeks – trying his best to mimic some of the challenging illustrations. Misty Copeland is a celebrated ballet dancer for the American Ballet Theater, and the first African-American woman to become a principal dancer in the company’s history.
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Last week, three professors were honored with the Nobel Prize in Economics – Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer – for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
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This week, our team commemorated our ten year anniversary in Lusaka with a panel discussion on reaching rural students. I highlighted our findings from our recent evaluation by American Institutes for Research (AIR), and the President of AIR, David Myers, spoke about our partnership and work together to kick-off the event.
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“A period should end a sentence not a girl’s education.” - Pad Project Motto. Unfortunately, this is not what is happening all over the world – in rural Zambia, where Impact Network works, a period can often upend a young woman’s education completely.
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A couple of short weeks ago, activist Greta Thunberg landed in NYC, from the United Kingdom, in time for Thunberg to attend the UN Climate Action Summit later this month.
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Here in NYC, many people have been engrossed in the US Open, one of the main tennis tournaments in the world. And yesterday, the women’s singles tournament was won by the first Canadian to ever win – Bianca Andreescu (born in my hometown! Go Mississauga!). But today, I’m not actually here just to talk about #SheTheNorth.
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I recently reread a tribute to Howard W. Jones, Jr. – a “Pioneer of Reproductive Medicine” who died at 104. Jones pushed the boundaries of medicine, and was responsible for the first baby born through in vitro fertilization. But today’s email is not about Dr. Jones at all (despite all of the work he did) – but one of his patients, who arguably made a bigger contribution to science.
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Financial literacy is not just important to college students in the United States. Impact Network has partnered with Mwabu and Financial Sector Deepening Zambia (FSDZ) to deliver a financial education curriculum for both school learners and young women in Zambia.
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This week, the world lost one of the greatest writers of our time. The first time I picked up a Toni Morrison book, I was in my late teens and was assigned The Bluest Eye for a class I was taking.
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Over the past month Impact Network has actively been thinking about how we can expand upon our existing curriculum to ensure that we set our students up for success in the years to come. But how do you prepare young people for the future, when you don’t know what the future will look like?
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Next month marks the birth date of a somewhat obscure mathematician – Giuseppe Peano. Born in 1958 in Piedmont, Italy, Peano was born and raised on a farm, going to school locally before attending the University of Turin.
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