By Samantha Plink One in four people in the world will be affected by mental illness at some point in their lives. Yet nearly two thirds of those people never seek help from a health professional, largely due to the stigma surrounding mental health issues. Mental illness doesn’t discriminate. It can affect people
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By Frida Gachagua In Kenya and most African countries, primary education is compulsory and often subsidised by the government. These means that a nation’s future generation has people that can at least read, write and perform simple arithmetic. The attendance of high school is lower by almost a third because most
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Hunger remains to be one of the worst problems in the world. In fact, statistics revealed that more than 815 million people experience hunger, with most of them coming from third world countries. Poverty and hunger go hand in hand. Poverty causes hunger because of lack of resources. Hunger causes poverty
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that about 795 million people, in a world population exceeding 7.3 billion, are living with constant hunger and undernourishment. Poverty is the main cause of hunger, making it unsurprising that an overwhelming majority of people living in famine are also from developing