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Apply to the 2014 Yale
World Fellows Program
Posted on October 28, 2013 by Admin
Deadline: December 4, 2013
Individuals from across sectors and
around the world are invited to apply to
the 2014 Yale World Fellows
Program. This is a four-month
residential program that offers
a cutting-edge global issues curriculum;
individualized skill-building; and access
to prominent thinkers and
practitioners. The Yale World Fellows
Program is actively looking for rising
leaders in virtually any field who have
the experience, dynamism and energy
to spend an intensive four months at
Yale learning, discussing, and sharing
their expertise with Yale faculty,
students, and the broader community.
Each class of Fellows is a unique group,
geographically balanced, and
representative of a wide range of
professions, talents, and perspectives.
The Program provides Fellows with a
travel allowance, housing, healthcare,
and a stipend to cover living expenses.
Yale also pays for all costs associated
with the educational and
extracurricular aspects of the Program.
About the Fellowship
During the four month program, Yale
World Fellows are fully immersed in the
University community. They share their
expertise and ideas in classes and
seminars across Yale and New Haven.
While most activities take place on
campus in New Haven, the Program
sponsors trips to New York City and
Washington, DC and an off-site retreat.
The Yale World Fellows Program is
offered annually from mid-August to
mid-December and is sponsored and
fully funded by Yale and supporting
partners.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants must:
BE IN THE MID-CAREER STAGE –
Fellows are between 5 to 20
years into their careers, with
demonstrated work
accomplishments, and a clear
indication of future contributions
and excellence.
Although there is no minimum or
maximum age limit, the average
age of a World Fellow is 39.
BE FLUENT IN ENGLISH – An
excellent command of the English
language is essential.
BE A CITIZEN OF A COUNTRY OTHER
THAN THE UNITED STATES While
dual citizens are eligible,
preference is given to candidates
whose work is focused outside
the US.
Selection Criteria
An established record of
extraordinary achievement and
integrity;
Commitment to engagement in
crucial issues and to making a
difference at the national or
international level;
Promise of a future career of
leadership and notable impact;
Special capacity for critical,
creative, entrepreneurial, and
strategic thinking;
Likelihood to benefit from
participation in the Program and
to contribute to global
understanding at Yale;
Commitment to a rigorous
program of activities, to full-time.

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Get high on EDUCATION and not DRUG.

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A key element of Merit Online is the promotion and facilitation of projects and setting of milestones. With talent and entrepreneurial ideas coming together from around the world it is one of our key intentions to allow the move from talk to action. Extract from worldmerit.org.

Join www.worldmerit.org to share your dreams and be a part of World's largest development network.

Life!

Fall in love again with your life and your dream. Take time to appreciate the brilliance, beauty and magnificence of your own life. Great things are supposed to happen to you. Care for yourself and appreciate what you have.

Life is beautiful...

Nigeria: Our Heritage

7 Billion Campaign Youth Actions Paper

On the 31^st of October 2011, about 50 young people across the Nation Nigeria were housed at Chida hotel in Abuja to celebrate the global population as it reached a mark of 7 billion and in Nigeria, about 167 million. This has huge implications on sustainability, urbanization, access to health care services and youth empowerment considering that a third of Nigeria’s population is made up of young people ages 10 -25 years old.

With a population of 167 million people and in a world of 7 billion, how do the government and young people access their roles and responsibilities in making sure collaborative efforts are geared towards tackling emerging social problems considering the unique demographic dynamics.

Recommendations to Government/Policy makers

·         Government should create more vocational opportunities for alternative education such as training centers

·         Government should review and update national  education policy framework so that the content of the policies can be relevant to present day social needs of young people

·         Government should ensure meaningful youth participation in reviewing National Education Policies

·         Government should also increase budgetary allocation by 30% in order to meet the educational needs of the Nigerian youth population

·         Government should prioritize female education by giving incentives for girl-child education

·         Government should increase the Inclusive capacities of schools at all levels and make education tuition free for persons with disabilities

Youth Actions

·         Young people should encourage volunteering in rural areas to implement community projects in rural areas, create after school programs, and embrace mentor-ship

·         Build an online directory as well as hard copy of existing opportunities of where and how to volunteer locally

·         Young people should embrace knowledge sharing and skill building on how to educate children and youths with disabilities

·         Young people should advocate that youth schooling abroad should come home and share their skills for at least two-years, especially those studying abroad on government scholarship

This is 2013, 2years from the proposed agenda to the Nigerian Youths and its Government in utilizing the resources available for development/ Job creation accordingly... Nigeria is blessed with several natural resources but I must say that we need to be known for something we are producing that the World needs.  Enough of selling our heritage for a peanut. 

We need to be more practical in our learning approaches. Students of Engineering should be empowered to start producing CARS, MICROPHONES, MOBILE PHONES that are better than the ones China and Japan are producing. We shun out graduates in all fields of study, yet we are left on the major cities in search of Jobs. Jobs are barely available to 5percent of the graduates in the Country.  We can reduce the level of unemployment when we engage the strength of young people in production processes.

 From left to right: Kikelomo, Oluwamayowa and Grace at Chida Hotel in Abuja.

 Nigeria Arise! before we extinct our natural resources.  

Oluwamayowa

Time to visit Motherless Babies' Home.

So True

You have never really lived until you have done something to someone that can never repay you.

UNIQUE YOU

STOP TRYING TO BE SOMEONE ELSE

One of the greatest  challenges in life is being yourself in a world that shapes you into some thing else. 

Note: Someone will always be Prettier, Someone will always be Smarter, Someone will always be Younger, Popular, Richer among others but the truth is that, they will never be you. You don't have to change your real self for people to like or accept you. Just be yourself and people will love the real you.

Love you loads... Mayor

GO GREEN

Play our GREEN SHOWDOWN quiz game on Twitter to win recharge cards for your mobile phone. 16 lucky winners in Nigeria will win instant recharges on their cell phones. From 1st – 4th Oct, 4pm – 8pm everyday, you can join the quiz game on Twitter for a chance to win recharge cards every hour. You don't have to be in Nigeria to join the fun!

How to Play:

1. Follow @BailiffAfrica on Twitter and join the #greenshowdown thread.
2. Look out for fun ‘green quizzes’ hourly from 4 – 8pm everyday.
3. Tweet your response to @bailiffafrica, making sure to tag all tweets with #greenshowdown.
4. Win airtime instantly! The first best answer wins EVERY HOUR, EVERY DAY!

The 21st of September 2013 marked the first year since Bailiff Africa was launched, delivering fresh and relevant content on everything ‘Green’. In one year, we have evolved from a humble website with one article into Africa’s largest and most comprehensive youth-run online platform that publishes ‘Green’ content.

With over 30 Bailiff Issues (#BailiffIssues) discussion sessions, 100 ‘Green’ posts, 400 subscribers to our weekly newsletter (The Green Spiral), over 900 followers on Twitter, and a staggering 30,000 monthly page hits; Bailiff Africa is indeed becoming the voice of GREEN in Africa. The Green Showdown is in commemoration of our very first anniversary, Nigerian independence and International Day of Peace.

We’d like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all those who have participated, read, left comments and submitted articles to Bailiff Africa. We are because you are!

Find attached the flier for this event.-- 

The Bailiff Africa Team,

BailiffAfrica.Org

Facebook/BailiffAfrica

@BailiffAfrica

Motivate yourself ...

There are so many people out there at the Heart of Change. They are working long hours and tirelessly behind the scenes, striving to achieve what is just beyond the horizon.

Think about it young people, you have no excuse to remain at that position you are... if you can think it, then you can achieve it.

Don't give up.

It seems the night will never turn to day
It seems the child would never grow to crawl
It seems our wishes are fantasies that would never come true
It seems our words so spoken would mean no good things
It seems that life has turned her back and fate would always mock us
Like our red seas would never path
Upon our confusion ever powerful, our hopes ever bleak
The wise still assertive would say
Don't you give up
Don't you give up!

When the roses refuse to go red and our farms refuse to speak
When our kinsmen are hopeful that one day, we would enrich the sullen feet of the earth.

Don't you give up!

Because neither the Antelope chased by the Cheetah and neither does the winter wind blur your faces...
The old man is wise as he says he is young
So don't you give up because it only gets better when you never give up.
Waste your time so you have no way to take your life
For in due time we will all fade away
So wait, and don't give up.
Until the seas are made land and man is guarded by day... We would not loose our humanity, lest we perish.
Don't give up.
Even until death, even when life dies
Even when all have lost hope
And all you see in the mirror looks like the end. Don't you give up  
Because even after death, there is life!

Olatunde Chidera Obafemi.

Edited by Oluwamayowa Akinbanjo

Don't Give Up...

It seems the night will never turn to day 

It seems the child would never grow to crawl 

It seems our wishes are fantasies that would never come true 

It seems our words so spoken would mean no good things

It seems that life has turned her back and fate would always mock us

Like our red seas would never path 

Upon our confusion ever powerful, our hopes ever bleak 

The wise still assertive would say 

Don't you give up 

Don't you give up! 

When the roses refuse to go red and our farms refuse to speak

When our kinsmen are hopeful that one day, we would enrich the sullen feet of the earth. 

Don't you give up!

Because neither the Antelope chased by the Cheetah and neither does the winter wind blur your faces... 

The old man is wise as he says he is young

So don't you give up because it only gets better when you never give up.  

Waste your time so you have no way to take your life

For in due time we will all fade away 

So wait, and don't give up. 

Until the seas are made land and man is guarded by day... We would not loose our humanity, lest we perish. 

Don't give up. 

Even until death, even when life dies 

Even when all have lost hope 

And all you see in the mirror looks like the end. Don't you give up   

Because even after death, there is life!

Olatunde Chidera Obafemi.

Edited by Oluwamayowa Akinbanjo It seems the night would never turn to day 

It seems the child would never grow to crawl 

It seems our wishes are fantasies that would never come true 

It seems our words spoken would mean no good things

It seems life has turned her back and fate would always mock us 

Like our red seas would never path 

Upon our confusion ever powerful, our hopes ever bleak 

The wise still assertive would say 

Don't give up 

Don't u give up!

Africa: Fastjet Airways to Begin Operation in Nigeria

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I'm proud to be a child. Our Voice: Our Future!...

LoveBirds evening Reflection with Praise Fowowe(c)2013

Your Child and Sex 23– AWARENESS & I (5-8years)

Bro Praise, I want to lend my voice to this issue of child sexual abuse and to warn parents on the need for them to be observant because I am just trying to break out of what my uncle... subjected me to. He was so fond of me that my parents never suspected anything as he would insist I came to his house for weekend and you must believe this I saw all kinds of things in his house. He wasn’t married at the time little did we know he was gay. I was 7 and saw him have sex with men and he warned me not to tell anyone. One of his male friends started practising same with me and I remember how I complained to my parents that I don’t want to be going to his house again because he was a bad uncle and how my mother shouted me down never to say that about her younger brother again. I remember complaining several times of anal pains and was told it was because I was dirty. Before I knew it I developed same tendency for males and touched quite a number of male friends. I am not married but I can tell you I have secretly followed your write up in the last 5years and can tell you I have kept off gay in the last 2years. Please parents need to help their children against household enemies(Isaac – Benin).

If you have not started teaching your child basic sexuality education as a parent, what you are doing is co-operating with the predator to molest your child. You will not always be around your kids but by empowering them against the predator it becomes difficult for them to be sexually molested because the strength of every predator is the ignorance of a child. What should your child do when the predator comes calling? Teach your child to Say No, Report to parents and teachers , Run away , Shout or bite the person.
You don’t have to wait till your child is molested we all need to protect every child around us because no child is really safe until every child becomes safe.

Africa: Outrage In South Africa Over Wedding Of Rich Girl!...

Africa: Outrage In South Africa Over Wedding Of Rich Girl!...:                               Published by The New York Times The New Age, via Associated Press Vega Gupta, center right, and Aakas...

GenderActionPlan

On International Women's Day, the World Bank launched a five-year Gender Action Plan for Africa to help improve a new generation of gender informed programs. Download a copy of this free report!

Visit: http://bit.ly/GenderActionPlan

Transformation

We re-cycle glass, metal, paper, oil. However WE CAN'T RE-CYCLE HUMAN NATURE. With all our laws and police and armies, and psychologists and educationalists we can't transform a murderer or habitual criminal, a drug abuser, a child molester, and turn him into a real gentleman, or saint. But Christ does. You can't unscramble eggs. No - but God can put people back together again, and does it every day. 

Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke - Official Page

 

 

Working Together is Success

AIESEC International Congress 2013 | Egypt shared AIESEC Alumni International Meeting 2013, Egypt's photo.