Education can win in Nigeria a couple of ways; more quality schools with libraries, books and classroom facilities and trains more teachers. But getting more children into classrooms and in front of books isn’t the only answer.
Category: Education
Chicken Heroes: Celia Payne
Cecilia Payne was the first person to earn a PhD in astronomy. A Russian-American astronomer, Otto Strauve said hers was “the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy.” Her mother refused to pay for her higher education, so she worked hard and won a scholarship to Cambridge University in England. But when she finished… Continue reading Chicken Heroes: Celia Payne
Gorilla In Trouble
More than half of the world’s endagered mountain gorillas live in the Virunga Mountains on the border of Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. The rest live in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. There were only 880 left in 2018. Thankfully with a lot of work, this is changing slowly. According to the World Wildlife… Continue reading Gorilla In Trouble
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Poaching Wildlife
Why would anyone buy elephant tusks or rhino horns if it means that animals have to die? Millie Kerr explains the how and why poaching.