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Hold On: Things Will Go Your Way! |
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 |
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One Woman Who's Not Afraid To Tell The World She Has No Secrets |
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 |
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92-Year-Old Road Warrrior Rachel Veitch Goes On Leno |
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 |
Susan notes: Rachel Veitch, 92, drives a 45-year-old car she calls Chariot. Her story, featured on Growing Bolder, a self-described "one-of-a-kind intergenerational social network," has racked up millions of page views, while she continued to rack up miles on the road...
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Acid Attack Survivor Katie Piper Shows Off Her Beautiful Face |
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Monday, 09 August 2010 |
 Susan notes: Barely concious, unable to speak, and in excruciating pain after having had sulphuric acid thrown in her face, 25-year-old model and TV presenter Katie Piper wrote a two-word note to her mother in 2008. "Kill me," it said.
Two years later, Piper has created a foundation to help burn victims, is leading a full and happy life and is an inspiration to all whom she meets. Her story proves beyond a doubt that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The six-part documentary below is fascinating, each segment is a little less than 10 minutes long. Watch it. You won't regret it...
Katie Piper is a beautiful, young woman rebuilding her life after surviving a brutal attack where sulphuric acid was thrown in her face, in March 2008.
Before the attack, Piper was a model and budding TV presenter with a hectic social life and a glowing future in the public eye. More than two years on with over 40 operations and countless treatments and therapies, Piper faces personal challenges daily, but she is back in control, living her life.
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Johanna Kwedhi Is Namibia's First Female Trawler Captain |
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Monday, 09 August 2010 |
Slight, pretty, sharp-eyed, and quietly firm about things - Johanna Kwedhi is Namibia's first female trawler captain. She is a living example of the empowerment of women in Namibia.
Johanna captains the Kanus, one of the largest trawlers operating from Luderitz Harbour, an old port rebuilt for today's fishing boats. It's her responsibility not only to navigate a coastline infamous for shipwrecks, but to bring in a profitable catch.
And this is an industry not used to women being, literally, at the helm.
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Multiple Organ Transplant Patient Becomes Doctor |
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Monday, 09 August 2010 |
 She could easily be forgiven for never wanting to see the inside of a hospital again.
In a young life blighted by serious illnesses, Allison John has unwillingly made medical history by becoming the first person in Britain to have all her major organs transplanted.
She received a new liver, kidney, heart and lungs in a series of difficult operations spanning 12 years to tackle the major health problems that at one stage left her just three days from death.
For many, that would be enough contact with the medical profession to last a lifetime. But not for the determined Miss John.
Ever since she was a schoolgirl she had wanted to be a doctor - and now she has finally fulfilled the dream after graduating from medical college.
The 32-year-old, who took 14 years to complete her studies and who will soon begin work on the wards, said yesterday: 'I never thought this day would finally come. It's such a huge milestone for me.
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60-Year-Old Woman Gets Long Overdue Degree |
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 |
 On a Friday afternoon in July 2010, Missouri State University held its summer commencement. There were 527 graduates in all, but one drew the attention of everyone.
Mary Jean Price Walls received the first ever honorary undergraduate degree given by the university. In the fall of 1950, Walls applied to what was then known as Southwest Missouri State College.
She was the first African American to apply, however, her application was denied because the school was not desegregated until 1954.
The honorary degree is given to honor the degree she was not allowed to pursue 60 years ago.
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Rape Survivor Lisa Marie Iyotte Introduces President Obama |
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
 Susan notes: this introduction of US President Obama by Lisa Marie Iyotte is easily one of the bravest pieces of public speaking I have ever seen. It brought tears to my eyes. I was also impressed by the President's compassion and patience: he simply stood there with her, letting her be in the moment, fully experiencing her story as she told it.
US President Obama just signed the Tribal Law and Order Act -- an important step to help the Federal Government better address the unique public safety challenges that confront tribal communities.
According to a Department of Justice report, Native American women suffer from violent crime at a rate three and a half times greater than the national average. Astoundingly, one in three Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes.
At the White House Tribal Nations Conference in November 2009, President Obama stated that this shocking figure "is an assault on our national conscience that we can no longer ignore."
Last week, Congress took another important step to improve the lives of Native American women by passing the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010. The Act includes a strong emphasis on decreasing violence against women in Native communities, and is one of many steps this Administration strongly supports to address the challenges faced by Native women.
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Indian Mother Of Seven Breaks Through Caste Barriers |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
 Married at 14, the mother of seven, Kakuben Lalabhai Parmar was well into adulthood before she came face-to-face with a man who was not a close relative.
In the cattle-herding community to which Parmar belongs, one among a cluster of groups categorized by the Indian constitution as “scheduled castes,” women were traditionally bound not just to their region or village but to the home.
“My group was treated as untouchables,” said Ms. Parmar, 50. And if the community was untouchable, its female members were still more disadvantaged by being invisible.
Miraclulously, Parmar’s life was transformed roughly 20 years ago by a not-for-profit organization called Sewa .
“I already experienced the biggest change in my life,” she says, “when I first got the chance to come out of my house and participate in society.”
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Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and subsequent French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes — in physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris.
