A traditional business person/entrepreneur usually measures performance in terms of profit and return, but Ariela St. Pierre-Collins, 15, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Barbados, says a social entrepreneur also measures  success by positive returns to society. A groundbreaking entrepreneurship scheme has expanded my career options. I had the opportunity to join the $20 Challenge, where young …

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With soaring standards of living resulting in the need for higher incomes to sustain one’s way of life, much work has to be done by the youngsters in Singapore, says Aristle Tay, 18, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Singapore. Tay says youth need the virtue of fortitude. From where I sat on the edge of a …

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Attacks on minorities in Bangladesh have been happening for years, writes Mezhabin Ahmed, 29, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Dhaka in Bangladesh, but the country’s civil society and especially the media have been largely silent. We Bangladeshis stooped in shame as we watched the recent atrocities against Buddhist and Hindu minorities in Ramu, Patia, Ukhia, Teknaf …

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For 13 years, Anna Dwyer traveled the regional and most isolated areas, working with some of Queensland’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. She has become a role model for a new generation of Australian women, writes Steph Carter, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Brisbane, Australia. My first real brush with a policewoman is one I …

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For 13 years, Anna Dwyer travelled the most isolated areas of Queensland, working with some of the state’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. She has become a role model for a new generation of Australian women, writes Steph Carter, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Brisbane, Australia. My first real brush with a policewoman is one …

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Youth workers are at the forefront of social change and transformation and play an important role in engaging young people in activities, structures and institutions that draw on their innate, positive potential. The Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) Pacific Centre in Solomon Islands will celebrate Youth Work Week from 7th – 9th November. Two events will …

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For two weeks last summer I spent nearly every day in Guangzhou’s African enclave, listening to the women’s stories of migration, writes Leigh-Ann Worrell, 25,  a Commonwealth Correspondent from St. Thomas, Barbados. One of the overriding themes was that of desperation. In the bustling trade areas of Guangzhou, China, an estimated 100 000 Africans from …

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Tourism started off well after Uganda gained independence in 1962, says Diana Phoebe, 25, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Kampala. But after decades of decline the government has now realized the economic importance of the sector and assigned high priority to restoring it. The black, yellow, and red of the national flag is everywhere in this …

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