How to Get Your Kids Ready for An Event

Getting your kids ready for an event can be challenging for parents especially when the time is short. Make sure your kids are ready for any event, be it a community gathering, school concert, birthday party, or family reunion by carefully organizing, being patient, and pre-planning. The process can be both fulfilling and draining, from handling wardrobe problems to dealing with anxiety. 

 On the other hand, you can easily get through the planning stage and give your family a wonderful experience if you have the appropriate strategy in place and shop smartly by purchasing complete outfits, like the ones sold at Maria B USA.  

Communicate Early and Clearly 

The foundation of successful event preparatio…

Ro Plan: Why Should You Spend On It?

Paying attention to your drinking water can contribute in your overall wellness. After all, when your health is happy, your most crucial assets are protected. By purified and filtered water, you make sure lesser sick days, lesser money wasted on treatment for water borne diseases, and better productive days.

According to a several studies by multiple organisations, drinking water issues like hard water, untreated water, and foul smelling water can lead to dehydration, hence lower blood pressure, anemia, and other life- threatening diseases. Spending on a water purifier that has the ability to help you get rid of all the impurities is surely a necessity these days. Diseases and reactions of drinking untreated and unfiltered water can be avoided by installing water purifiers for …

Ramping up Malaria Prevention in Angola

Dr Kone Vanormelingen, UNICEF representative in Angola, believes good progress is being made in the country s fight against the disease, which is financed in partnership with the Angolan government and ministry of health.

He said Angolan malaria statistics were unreliable, especially because as services have improved, so has reporting. But through monitoring indicators such as distribution of bed nets and medication, pre-emptive treatment of pregnant women and indoor residual spraying, a positive pattern was emerging.

International evidence has shown that with 80 percent coverage with mosquito nets and treatment of cases with combination therapy, then morbidity (number of cases) is reduced by 50 percent and mortality by 20 percent, he explained.

Dr Vanormelingen…

Taking Refuge in Hell Camp

PESHAWAR, Apr 21 2012 (IPS) – We have been spending sleepless nights without electricity and clean water. This place is not worth living in but we have no option and will remain here as long as the military operation continues in our area, said Gul Rahim, a former resident of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, currently languishing in the Jallozai refugee camp in the Nowshera district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Like other children at Pakistan's Jallozai refugee camp, this girl is unable to attend school. Credit:

Like other children at Pakistan s Jallozai refugee camp, t…

1980s’ Redux? New context, Old Threats

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 6 2022 (IPS) – As rich countries raise interest rates in double-edged efforts to address inflation, developing countries are struggling to cope with slowdowns, inflation, higher interest rates and other costs, plus growing debt distress.

Rich countries’ interest rate hikes have triggered capital outflows, currency depreciations and higher debt servicing costs. Developing country woes have been worsened by commodity price volatility, trade disruptions and less foreign exchange earnings.

Anis Chowdhury

Rising debt risks
were already in, or at high risk of debt distress, even before the Ukraine crisis. Debt service burdens i…

United We Stand to Achieve Sustainable Development

Credit: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation

BANGKOK / BEIJING, Sep 12 2022 (IPS) – The world today faces a future that is in peril. Our challenges have become more complex and interconnected, as we see the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, an uneven economic recovery, a climate emergency, growing inequalities, and an increase in conflicts globally. This year also marks a grim milestone, with .

These events accompany increasing division in the community of nations which threatens to push the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) further out of reach for the Global South.

Adding to these crises, rising food and e…

Could BCG, a 100-year-old Vaccine for Tuberculosis, Protect Against Coronavirus?

what is the BCG vaccine and what might its place be in the fight against coronavirus?

May 14 2020 (IPS) – This week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will donate to help fund an Australian trial testing whether a very old vaccine, BCG, can be used against a new threat, COVID-19. So what is the BCG vaccine and what might its place be in the fight against coronavirus?

 

The ABCs of BCG

The BCG vaccine has been used for nearly a century to protect against tuberculosis, a bacterial disease that affects the lungs. Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

BCG is short for , as it was c…