We would like you to join us in celebrating Mercy’s offer to study at USIU in Kenya! Recently, Sarah Franklin, one of our volunteers, caught up with Mercy to find out what makes her tick. Zambians aren’t exposed to many educational courses – most of us aren’t even aware of what choice is out there. […]
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Will we ever find Utopia?
Edwin Mbewe continues his regular blog with his thoughts on Utopia – and asks you to share yours with him. (Photo credit Mohit on Unsplash) Angry, frustrated, weary, tired, mad, anxious, sleeping in bed all day, driving on super speed past the traffic lights – the world isn’t always an easy place to navigate. At some point in […]
Guard the avenues of the heart, not border posts!
Edwin Mbewe continues his blog series with a very Valentine’s-appropriate article. Let us know what you think. What or who should we blame for the multitude of calamities that we have now accepted as part of our human experience? In my short lifetime, I haven’t lived a single year without hearing of a war in […]
What if revisiting our history is what could save us?
In Edwin Mbewe’s second blog, he talks about the extent to which understanding our past is important in informing our current and future. Firstly, I am very thankful to Our Moon Education and the teachers from Ecolint for giving us the opportunity to do the reflective essays. In particular, I learnt about the format of […]
Edwin – an interview with Sarah Franklin
With few pharmaceutical research firms in Africa, we have relied on US help over the last few years. However, we have all the natural resources that we need in Africa to carry out the research. It’s just up to us to reach out to nature to discover the drugs. Favourite Subjects: Chemistry, Physics and Biology. […]
Solving global challenges: the nexus between science and human behaviour
Edwin Mbewe writes the first of his blog series I’ve always been interested in science, and its undeniable impact it has had since the beginning of time. From the discovery of Penicillin to that of the Higgs Boson, science has always taught us through experimentation, solved our problems via producing substances, and suggested the future […]