Sunday Briefing October 18, 2020 - New Content
- Fiona Achieng'
- Oct 18, 2020
- 2 min read
Music and Dementia – A Recipe of comfort by three young females
Source: BBC News
Three Nigerian-Irish teenagers; Rachel, Margaret, and Joy developed an app that uses music to bring comfort to those living with dementia.
Memory Haven, the name of the app, was coded after the girls expressed immense concerns about how dementia patients were coping during lockdown. This wonderful tech of art has already won a prestigious award at the Technovation—a global community of students, mentors, and ambassadors determined to change the world using technology.
Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, and problem-solving skills among many abilities that interfere with the patient’s daily functioning. Music for dementia patients can boos their moods, reduce agitation, and improve their focus. Furthermore, music can help instigate emotions and memories which lead them to their past.
AASW Celebrates 3 Years of Fighting Period Poverty
Affordable and Accessible Sanitation for Women (AASW) – a youth-led initiative that aims to fight period poverty and stigma around the world recently celebrated their three year anniversary.
“These three years have proven to be so essential for our organization, ensuring our primary vision is met. We have grown, partnered, worked, and developed with several people and fellow organizations during these three years. Thank you for being with us at the start of our testimony” – AASW_Global to its supporters.
AASW is currently working to support 2000 girls from 7 villages in Baringo County, Kenya who are forced to trade sex in order to get sanitary kits. They hope to raise KES 600,000 ($5,522.47) for this cause. You can be a contributor too through this link.
#ThisIsWhyYouShouldCare – Teach for All conference
Teach For All; a platform that develops collective leadership around the world to ensure all children can fulfill their potential will be holding a global conference from 20-22 October 2020.
More than 2500 of its global community members will come together to their very first virtual conference. The event purposes to
· deepen the understanding of inequities inherent in our societies and its impact on the children who are at the center of our work
· Reflect together and envision new possibilities for a better future
· Support each other with a shared commitment to build a better world
The conference will also include daily assemblies, learning and leadership sessions, community building spaces, and a student-adult equal partnership track.
Teach for All is a global network of 56 independent locally-led partner organizations and a global organization that works to accelerate the progress of the network
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