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To celebrate both International Women’s Day and Youth Day, please meet Janet

I haven’t written a blog for a while, but this week has had two great reasons to celebrate – International Women’s Day and, in Zambia, International Youth Day. At Our Moon, we are very proud to be working with some amazing young women that fall within both categories, so I thought I would introduce you […]

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The taboo of periods

In the week when the Zambian government announced they would distribute sanitary wear to all girls in government schools, Jen Moore tells us about the research she did into the taboos around periods in Zambia – and those closer to home. In an interesting recent report, Plan UK[1] showed that some of the key issues facing […]

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How working while studying is giving me the skills to help when I return home

Blog written by Ashley, class of 2016. Interviewing the CEO. Through UBC MasterCard Scholarship Foundation, I had the privilege of interviewing Atira Women’s Resource Society’s CEO, Janice Abbott. Atira is located in Vancouver Downtown East side, the poorest part of Vancouver. It works especially with indigenous women – the most marginalised in Canadian society. The interview would mark a turning point […]

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