THE SECOND COMING OF SERVICE: HONORING DR. KING’S LEGACY THE SECOND COMING OF SERVICE: HONORING DR. KING’S LEGACY THROUGH THE DIASPORA DRIVEN NIGERIA MEMBERS FROM ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, FRANCE, CANADA, NIGERIA, UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES. As the largest national day of service, MLK Day is valued as a day…

More than 800 attendees from nearly 80 countries gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, for the fifteenth annual Wikimania Conference The launch of ‘Wiki-Menstruation’ hosted by Padman Africa was perfectly timed in alignment with Wikimania 2019, which took place in Stockholm this August 16th-18th. The annual international conference celebrating Wikimedia project editors…

While catching up with a friend, she said to me, “Seriously, get sleep.” And I responded, “I want to, but I don’t want to do yesterday’s things today. I prefer doing tomorrow’s things today.” That was the case of Chaste, who was once a semifinalist candidate, missed out in joining…

New study highlights the complexity of menstruation in the Global South. New research draws on women’s and girls’ narratives to understand their experiences of menstruation. A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Exeter, and menstrual health NGO, Femme International, systematically reviewed 76 qualitative…

Nigeria’s Chaste Inegbedion slated to meet the Former US VP, Algore, Championing Climate & Menstrual Health in Minneapolis, Marrakesh, Stockholm and Salt Lake City in August. Period Poverty Is A Thing, Even in The U.S. Championing the Padman Africa and PadbankNG Initiative. In August ,Chaste has gotten this opportunities to…

Knowledge is a battlefield. No one knows better than the founders and editors of Wikipedia to make the online encyclopedia as universal and comprehensive as possible. Here’s the thing about us Africans: we have rich history, with opportunities at every turn to use our experiences to tell powerful stories, but…

The United Nations Department of Global Communications announced the selection of Maruxa Cardama, Secretary-General of the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport, as Chair of the sixty-eighth United Nations Civil Society Conference that will take place from 26 to 28 August in Salt Lake City, United States.

Padman Africa celebrates first-ever International Day of Education on 24 January The world will mark the first-ever International Day of Education on 24 January, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly last year in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. …

MANDELA DAY TURNS “MANDELA WEEK” IN HONOUR OF MANDELA CENTENARY 2018 CELEBRATIONS IN NIGERIA It was a week-long of activities in Lagos & other parts of Nigeria in commemoration of the goodwill and life of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s globally recognized Nobel Peace laureate and the first democratically-elected President of…