Tag: news
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How Tea Breaks Boost Office Relationships
Preparing spice tea taught me that workplace kindness isn’t complicated. You don’t need budget approval or management buy-in. Sometimes you just need to make something good and share it consistently. People will show up if what you’re offering is genuine.
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Transforming Community Engagement Through Learning
Working with communities affected by poverty and HIV changed everything I thought I knew about making a difference. Ten years in the field taught me an important lesson. Clipboards and curricula don’t build communities. Shared vulnerability and mutual learning do.
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Voting with Intention: Faith and Civic Responsibility
This is a reflection on the quiet power of voting without partisanship—choosing unity, justice, and service over division.
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A Life-Changing Airport Encounter: My Meeting with Swami Krishnananda
At 19, disciplined practice dominated my world. My karate training had conditioned my body for the past 4 years. Additionally, the classical guitar, the flute, and the readings consumed my evenings. I was unaware that someone would soon occupy the empty seat beside me. This person would reshape my understanding of these pursuits.
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Transforming Communities: Lessons from Madagascar’s HIV Response
Working in Madagascar’s HIV and AIDS response has offered invaluable insights and reshaped my understanding of community improvement. Madagascar’s HIV prevalence remains relatively low compared to mainland African countries. The approach has gone beyond traditional healthcare interventions to embrace HIV and AIDS as a development issue requiring multi-sectoral collaboration.
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Legacy Beyond Names: Insights from Public Health Work
When today’s writing prompt arrived—”If you could have something named after you, what would it” be?”—I paused. As a statistician who has spent the last seven years working with UNAIDS on the HIV and AIDS response in Madagascar, I felt the tension immediately. My professional life straddles two worlds: the analytical realm of statistics and…
L J Padayachy 