Kenyan Girls to Fly to Google HQ After Inventing APP to End FGM Animated chatter spills out from a corner of tech giant Google’s Nairobi offices as five Kenyan schoolgirls discuss their upcoming trip to California where they hope to win $15,000 for I-cut, an app to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The five teenagers,…
In a country struggling with sexual harassment, these 5 initiatives are fighting rape culture The dramatic scenes that were televised on screens across the world showed a nation no longer willing to accept the abhorrent crimes against women that had been exposed in truly the most horrifying of ways. Since the end of 2012, many…
These pool patrons can now safely have their fun in the sun without running the risk of skin damage. That’s because 16-year-old Lynly Brennan helped install free sunscreen dispensers at five of her county’s local pools. The teen first got the idea when she was researching tanning beds for a school project. According to her…
The first self-defense studio in the Middle East that teaches women to fight back A female boxer was tired of women in the Middle East being told they had to accept violence and abuse and now, thanks to her, they can stand up for themselves. That’s because SheFighter, an exclusively female martial arts studio in…
Young people who are taking the latest HIV drugs have a near-normal life expectancy as a result of improvements in treatments, a study suggests. Doctors writing in The Lancet medical journal reported that 20-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in 2010 are projected to live 10 years longer than those first treated in 1996. Jimmy Isaacs…