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Love Letters
"What would you say to your younger self? Use only one sentence. " LOL. Why do people think they get...
Little Things that Make us Happy
Whenever I think about things and situations that make me happy, besides being with the people I love, I have...
Berenice Beukes: Be True to Yourself – Then You Do Not Have to Apologise for Anything
Berenice Beukes says: "Be true to yourself". She is one of those people who seem fearless to the outside world....
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Bloody Foreigners
I am a migrant woman and I am very proud to call myself a Bloody Foreigner. As a Bloody Foreigner, I donate blood and I save lives. Two years ago, I started an awareness-raising campaign called Bloody Foreigners to promote blood donation amongst migrants. We chose the throughout provoking campaign title deliberately to grab attention, to make a noise, and to start a conversation about hateful rhetoric directed at migrants. That campaign brought...
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Connecting Mindfulness and Multiculturalism
The cool ocean breeze sweeps across your skin. Moist, salty air wraps around you, eliciting a sense of mental stillness that cradles you as you walk along the coastal pathway. Noticing the sensations around you is just one aspect of a cultivated technique sometimes otherwise known as mindfulness. The practice...
Organ Donation – Words from Your Future Doctor
I fell in love with science when I was a child. Chemistry and Biology were my favourite subjects in school. At that same time, I came to a realization that life science can have a huge influence on our future. Organ Donation is the matter of empathy Everything around us...
Mental Health – Let’s Talk About It
Back in late 2016 depression hit me out of the blue. We’d recently moved house, my youngest had moved out of home and I kind of felt a bit lost. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I felt sad and miserable. Really didn’t want to do anything. I...
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