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According to just about every college stereotype ever, spring break is associated with partying and hanging out on the beach. However, some Rice students spent their recent breaks a little differently. Some wrote policy briefs on mental health in migrant communities. Others volunteered at clinics for Vietnamese refugees or visited local arts organizations. These students all have one thing in common: they were a part of Rice’s Alternative Spring Break Program, which aims to work with community partners on a range of social issues. ....
Against prevalent security challenges in parts of the country, the federal government has been advised to adopt traditional knowledge-based intervention ....
Share ADEOLA OTEMADE reports on the phenomenon whereby the population continues to grow thus leading to bigger socio-economic problems in which children are either out of school or live on the street, among other social problems. As is the practice annually the 2021 World Population Day was celebrated on July 11 with the theme: ‘the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility’. The day was observed this year “to shed more light on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive behaviour globally.” Also to mark the day, leading demographers and population experts discussed the impact of the pandemic on fertility preferences and behaviours, the availability and use of family planning, teenage marriage, challenges of data collection, among other issues related to population. ....
By JENNIFER H. SVAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 11, 2020 RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany This year’s Ramstein High School seniors were toddlers when the class of 2005 boxed up a few items from their school years and sealed them up. Across the doors of the double red and blue school locker, they spray-painted in big white letters instructions for a future generation: “Do Not Open Until 2020.” But the time capsule’s spring opening had to be postponed when the pandemic shut down school in March. “We figured we’d at least do it in the year 2020,” said class of 2021 sponsor Nathell Porter, while standing in the school’s senior hall Friday morning for the capsule’s unveiling. ....