Three out of four handicapped Senegalese locals don’t have a job. That should change after the introduction of a new law that offers financial benefits to businesses who can employ them. In Senegal around 10 percent of the population have a physical or intellectual handicap. By getting more people with disabilities working, there is hope that social stigmas around handicaps will also decrease. For far too long many of these people have languished on the edges of Senegal society.
As a child I lay in the fields in my small Lithuanian village and dreamed of somewhere else. Ninety years later I am sitting in Brooklyn and asking myself: Why am I no longer there, in the fields of my childhood?
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Bjeen Alhassan, born in Qamishli, Syria, now lives in Germany. In her Facebook group “Learning with Bijin” she helps refugee women, earning her the German Integration Award.
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Five French locals on the state of their nation.
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Since March, all of Hong Kong has been debating the local culture around overtime. After a bus driver working for the KMB bus company caused an accident that killed 12 because he was overtired, it came out that he had been working for over 12 hours straight.
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En route with Romanian harvest hands and seasonal labourers.
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The next World Cup kicks off in Qatar in 2022 and the small nation is betting on the highly-anticipated sporting event to boost its international standing.
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