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Family Tradition Pays the Bills |
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By Susan Macaulay
When she was 16, Gladys Adjimer went through the traditional ritual of
Dipo, where girls don ceremonial dress and beads, and dance and eat
nothing but water and yam for up to four days as part of their
initiation into Krobo womanhood.
This may have marked the beginning of her love of beadwork, cosmetics and jewelry.
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Newfound Hope |
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By Susan Macaulay
CK was born in Rwanda, the first child of her mother's second husband.
But when she was still very young, her father ran out on them, and they
moved around, living with different relatives.
Then came 1994, and the genocide.
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Too Young to Be a Mother... |
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By Susan Macaulay
Her siblings were in desperate need of nourishment and
clothing. Germaine was frustrated because she believed she was not
supposed to be supporting these children who looked up to her as the
almighty. Children would come to her for answers she didn't have, because what she had seen was completely beyond her
grasp.
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My Mom, Your Mom, His Mom |
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By Rahul Mukharjee
...To my mom!
"No My Lord! I don’t recognise this women and I have never seen these three children..."
Today, at the age of 37, whenever I imagine a woman in her late
twenties with her three sons of six, nine and 14 years, in front of a
man in witness box uttering the above line, I feel ashamed to realise
that it was my Father! And I was the youngest one at the time!
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AGMC meets AWR |
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By Jennifer Marriott
I’ve occupied myself doing lots of ‘stuff’ in my grown-up life.
I flirted with the broadcasting industry, as ‘on air’ talent and behind
the scenes control freak. I worked as a waitress, bartender,
restaurant manager, cook and dishwasher. Sometimes all in the same day.
I knocked around the communications industry – graphic design,
advertising and marketing – until it didn't like me very much, and I
liked it even less.
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Raw Power Transformed My Life |
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By Angela Stokes
I never expected to be running a website that helps thousands of people to transform their lives every day.
Sometimes it astounds me when I recall that seven years ago I weighed
nearly 300 lbs, was always ill, lonely, and miserable, even though I
pretended to be happy.
Today, I weigh less than half that (138lbs). I’m happy, healthy and feel
so truly on my life path. It’s like I’m living a different life, and I
am SO grateful.
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Finding Hope, When All Else Fails |
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They were trying to save her life.
By Catherine Pastille
That’s why the attending medical staff had ushered me away from my
mother’s bedside, leaving me to stand alone in the middle of the
hospital corridor.
I felt as if an invisible umbilical cord was being shredded. It was
quite strange. Although I was an adult, I became aware that there was
something quite powerful that connected us, and I sensed it being
pulled away from the center of my body – I could feel it, in physical
way.
The doctors asked what I wished them to do – resuscitate? Use a
ventilator? Let her go? I was at the center of what felt like an
approaching storm – one I knew I could not avoid.
It was then that I saw her coming toward me with open arms; and when I
did, I knew in an instant that this was no ordinary moment…
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