This week’s email comes from Cora Juettemann, our Operations Development Advisor – encouraging messages about our remote work over the last three months!
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As our nation, and now the world, grapples with its second week of protests against the killing of unarmed black men and women by police, I have been reflecting and listening.
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In the wake of the recent death of George Floyd, so many of our fellow citizens are protesting against injustice, bigotry, and racism. If you are among them, I stand with you and I’m wishing you safety. On days like this, I don’t have a lot of wisdom to offer. Instead, I offer my favorite TED talk by an author I adore – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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“Stay Home” – the slogan is omnipresent, even in Zambia where the COVID-19 cases are recently increasing. For our Impact Network teachers, our schools closed ten weeks ago under orders from the Ministry of General Education. Ever since, 170 teachers of Impact Network have been practicing physical distancing and staying safe. We recently launched Impact Radio to help keep our students learning, but how can we continue to engage our teachers in remote work?
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Two hundred years ago this week marked the birth date of the founder of modern nursing – Florence Nightingale. As we celebrate Nurses day around the globe, and they continue to fight this pandemic on the front lines, I thought I would learn a bit more about Nightingale.
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In late March, around the time that schools were closing around the globe, our team held a series of brainstorming sessions to better understand our options to continue schooling for our students. Unlike many schools, online learning and mobile learning aren’t viable options for us – the vast majority of our students lack access to an internet-enabled device, a stable network, and more importantly, power.
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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, so many businesses and organizations have started to shift their focus to be able to better serve their community. For our part, Impact Network has a few projects in the works that we are excited to announce in the coming weeks!
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Wednesday, April 22 was Earth Day – the 50th anniversary in fact. Earth Day was created to raise awareness and bring people together to help protect the planet. This year was a very unique Earth Day as people all across the world are celebrating online and staying home to stop the spread of the Coronavirus.
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I heard a podcast recently and learned about a scientist who lived in the 1800s and was the earliest advocate of handwashing. His story feels particularly powerful now, given all that we do know about viruses – and also because of all that we don’t know.
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In search of a little bit of inspiration this week, I reread a few passages from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet – and then realized that this week was the 89th anniversary of his death on April 10, 1931.
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With the spread of the Coronavirus around the globe, it seems we are constantly being bombarded with bad news. We hear of new cases, new deaths, struggling businesses, and overwhelmed health care systems. It’s hard to stay positive when so much news is negative.
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About five years ago, I shared the below story – I reshare it now because it gives me hope that we might be able to work together across so many nations, and find a way to defeat COVID-19.
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The spread of the Coronavirus has shut down schools, museums, and theaters. In this time of quarantine and social distance, however, companies are stepping up to ensure we still have free access to education and cultural activities.
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On Tuesday morning, we woke to the news that the Zambian government had ordered all schools to close by Friday in response to COVID-19. It was not unexpected; our board had essentially come to the same conclusion the night before
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As I sit down to send this, it feels like I’m watching a terrible movie. New York City has just shut down its schools until April 20th, our borders are slowly but surely starting to close, and the grocery stores are slowly emptying out.
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March marks Women’s History Month, a time where we celebrate the achievements of women and the strides we have taken towards equality. While there is much to celebrate, there is also much to be improved. Currently, there are 132 million girls who are out of school and do not have access to an education.
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Each year Bill & Melinda Gates publish an annual letter reflecting on their progress at the Gates Foundation. This year marks 20 years for the foundation, so the letter is particularly compelling.
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This month, we celebrate what would have been the 107th birthday for one of America’s most famous African American civil rights activists – Rosa Parks.
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Last year at Impact Network, our Operation Coordinators moved from written tag numbers to scanning barcodes on equipment at our schools when verifying the equipment’s condition.
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Late last year, the development world said goodbye to one of our own – Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. Abed was the founder of the largest NGO in the world – BRAC .
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