Looking Towards Our Future

Adizah Tejani

Life as a global citizen….

Category: Development Issues

  • Ctrl Meets Nathaniel Peat – Social Entrepreneur Part 2

    After grilling Nathaniel Peat about the G20 Toronto conference last week, I turned the focus onto other aspects that the inspiring young social entrepreneur has an interest in. On the agenda today – the Safety Box, climate change, corruption, and leadership… How has the Safety Box helped young people? There are so many examples of… Read.

  • Ctrl Meets Nathaniel Peat- Social Entrepreneur P1

    With talk surrounding the ‘Big Society’ and having an increase in social insight, being a social entrepreneur is something that should be looked into. This was my first trans-Atlantic interview and due to the bliss of technology – it was held over Skype…. Nathaniel Peat is a great example of an entrepreneur of the next… Read.

  • Ctrl Meets Bizarre (D-12)

    Eminem may be the biggest seller - but anyone that knows D-12 will definitely know fellow member Bizarre who is part of that eclectic hip hop mix. Bizarre has always been a solo artist (pre and post D-12 days) with notoriously provocative and tongue-in-cheek material, so when news of a possible 1-on-1 came through late on Sunday (July 4) night –… Read.

  • Launch of UN Women

    The launch of the United Nations’ new global body – UN Women – highlights the progress made in the last 65 years of UN work. As Ban Ki-Moon states: “UN Women is recognition of a simple truth: equality for women is a basic human right and a social economic imperative.” This recognition once again will… Read.

  • Nothing to do this summer? ……………Why not volunteer.

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    As summer approaches there are many students looking for something to do with their time. With many of us struggling to find a job an alternative is to volunteer or be an intern. I have been volunteering for a while with many different types of organisations. It began with Orange RockCrops in 2008 where the… Read.

  • DFID, OXFAM & AID

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    Yesterday, I attended the speech of Andrew Mitchell at Oxfam’s 21st Century Aid report launch event, at the Royal Society in London. Here is a link to some of his main points. He also answered some of the questions posed to him by OXFAM supporters. One of which was my own focused on awareness raising.… Read.