Ingenium by WhiteBoard Labs

                                                      An Accidental Human As a young girl attempting to complete my masters, I worked at a local store as a billing clerk to make ends meet. The money I made as a part timer at the store was just about enough to get me by in the hard times of Covid and businesses closing, no jobs, etc. At least I was lucky enough to survive.  One day as I was working the till, one elderly  person came over and asked for another colleague of mine named John. I told him John was on another shift this week. He seemed a bit perturbed so I asked him if there was a problem. So elderly gent tells me that earlier in the week he had needed to take the shopping cart out for a while as he had bought a lot of stuff and asked John if he could. John told him it would be fine but he would need to put down some security deposit to ensure the cart comes back and which the gent deposited with John. Apparently 500 was the amount. Now he had brought the cart back and wante

A Journey Through Time The Timeless Clock is a story about two immortal people named Romeo and Juliet. And their son, Juleo. Not to be confused with Shakespeare’s characters. That was fictional. Mine is real. Shakespeare’s died. Ours live on. Our story starts in the early 17 th century where Romeo and Juliet are a couple who live in a village called Verona, in the countryside. They had gone through a huge struggle in their youth and as you will see throughout this story their struggles continued through the centuries, till at last in 2020 they found some peace, despite the pandemic. Apparently among the few who did well. In Verona, work and social life were mixed, as families lived on small plots of land, growing crops mostly for home consumption. Children learned to milk cows, churn butter, and tend to farm animals. This traditional agrarian lifestyle and outlook was very typical of those times. People were happy surrounded by family and friends. Nice quiet life. But poverty

    Reimagining the future of  skills :       what do young people think?       Image: REUTERS/Jorge Silva   Digital connectivity and online learning can expand opportunities for young people around the world   20 Jul 2020 Henrietta H. Fore Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Robert E. Moritz Global Chairman, PwC     COVID-19 is casting a long shadow over the futures of young people all around the world.   On World Youth Skills Day, we asked young people their thoughts on redesigning education and skills for the post-COVID era. For children and young people looking to gain an education and skills, COVID-19 has made a bad situation even worse. Before the pandemic, they faced a growing mismatch between the skills they were learning in school and those needed for employment. Now, under the shadow of COVID-19, over one billion are out of school altogether. And millions of young people who were set to join