Monday, March 11, 2024

Ramadan Mubarak!


Ramadan extends beyond mere thirst and hunger; it serves as an opportunity to empathize with those who endure true deprivation and offer assistance—an act of genuine worship. It's about transcending indifference, replacing it with compassion. Repentance isn't solely about acknowledging our wrongdoings, but also about embracing God's boundless forgiveness.

Ramadan Kareem!



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Friday, March 8, 2024

Happy Women's Day 2024

Happy International Women’s Day to all the amazing women and the brilliant, supportive men out there!



As individuals, it's crucial to recognize, appreciate, and actively promote the inclusion of women and girls, in line with the campaign theme for International Women's Day 2024 which is ‘Inspire Inclusion’. Sharing this understanding, support, and encouragement with others is equally vital.
Collectively, organizations and groups can champion inclusion through various actions, such as:
• Ensuring access to quality education and training for women & girls
• Empowering women economically and financially
• Facilitating women & girls' involvement in leadership, decision-making, business, and STEM fields
• Providing informed health choices for women & girls
• Recruiting, nurturing, and advancing diverse talent
• Engaging women & girls in sustainability initiatives, including agriculture and food security initiatives
• Designing infrastructure that meets the specific needs of women & girls
• Enhancing women & girls' participation and success in sports
• Promoting the creative and artistic endeavors of women & girls
By taking concerted action in these areas and addressing any additional areas vital for the progress of women & girls, organizations and groups can actively foster a more inclusive and equitable society for women and girls.
Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress!

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Happy Lunar New Year & Bright Lantern Festival!

Light the Lanterns! From spirituality to socialising to spectacle, the rubescent gleam of lanterns vies with the brilliance of the Full Moon as Day 15 of the Spring Festival explodes in the dazzling climax of the Lantern Festival, ushering in bright hope for a wholesome and prosperous year ahead! Amidst this revelry is also a time for reflection and reunion. तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय holds special meaning as we seek to move with purpose from the darkness of ignorance unto the light of understanding.



The Lantern Festival brings hope to people and spirits alike! Lost and wandering souls are guided to their destinies by the light of lanterns carried along the streets by their families, as malevolent spirits are guided away from homes. It is an evening to also honour nature and higher beings.




As for the spirit, so for the mind! Learning never stops even on Day 15 of the Spring Festival as the Lantern Festival offers pleasurable intellectual stimulation for all ages in the form of riddle slips attached to lanterns, conveying befuddling puzzles, pithy wisdom, and omens. Try one: Which is faster, hot or cold? This is also a day of love. In times long gone, evenings around the Lantern Festival offered an opportunity for otherwise cloistered young women to be out and about with the community, admiring the spectacle of light while being secretly admired by potential suitors. Each attempting to convey their love through heartfelt poems delicately concealed within these lantern riddles:

"If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.

If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."

- Chinese Proverb

Wishing everyone a bright Lantern Festival and a happy Lunar New Year! 



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Sunday, February 4, 2024

World Cancer Day!

This World Cancer Day, let us renew our commitment to raise awareness, take preventive actions, continue researching and developing effective as well as affordable treatments, and widen access to timely detection, advanced therapeutics, and quality palliative care.


First steps?
  • Cultivate thoughtfulness
  • Live sustainably
  • Eat mindfully

Your health is in your hands!


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Monday, January 1, 2024

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a very happy New Year 2024!


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Monday, September 4, 2023

Motivational quote - Sheryl Sandberg




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Saturday, May 20, 2023

World Bee Day 2023

The world's pollinators, including the irreplaceable bees are under threat of extinction! Imagine a world without natural pollination leading to extinction of many crops and lower production of food which is vital for human survival. 



What can we do? 
  • encourage sustainable agricultural products & buying from local farmers
  • avoiding pesticides and other chemicals in gardens
  • encouraging growth of native plants including weeds which will flower in different seasons
  • protecting bee colonies
  • provide water for many animals including bees
  • leaving forests alone
  • raising awareness about bees and other pollinators.
Save the bees, save the world. Consume only sustainably-produced natural honey. 

Watch this video of a reading of the book "The Bee Master" which does an excellent job of educating people about bees and on handling beehives in residential areas. 



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