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Hopes that the colder weather might see a drop in the number of people risking their lives to reach Europe have proved groundless after the UN Children’s Agency, UNICEF, on Wednesday said that the number of women and children seeking safety, has doubled in a month. The warning comes after the UN reported that in October, nearly half of the 93,000 people crossing from Greece to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, were women and children. UNICEF Special Representative Marie-Pierre Poirier stressed that the real number of those on the move is likely to be twice as high. Daniel Johnson has more.
Women’s entrepreneurship lights up rural Pakistan
Women in 250 villages in Pakistan have been literally lighting up their communities. They’ve been trained to operate solar lanterns which they then rent to their neighbours, thus allowing the w
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Fiza Farhan, one of the Future Energy Leaders of the World Energy Council, has been named by Forbes as one of this year’s “30 under 30” social entrepreneurs for her efforts to bring renewable energy to poor, rural areas of Pakistan.
[ Fiza Farhan, 28, co-founder of the Buksh Foundation
Ms Farhan, 28, leads the “Lighting a million lives” project at the Buksh Foundation which she co-founded in 2009 with Mr Asim Buksh, a high-end goods retailer with a social responsibility mission.
The Buksh Foundation provides microfinance to enable energy projects to be set up for villages in Pakistan that have no grid access. As basis for the project, each village would be provided with a centralised solar charging station, while a woman entrepreneur would be trained to set up and run the station for her customers.
Farhan and her co-founder embarked on the programme as they believed renewable energy could be a cleaner, cheaper alternative to traditional
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A streak of rebelliousness gets you far: advisor to the UN, social entrepreneur and spokeswoman on women’s rights and societal issues, Fiza Farhan, Warwick Business School Alumna, tells her story
Fiza Farhan and the streak of rebelliousness that gets you far. With kind acknowledgements to Warwick COREinsights. First published beneath the title Change Maker: Fiza Farhan, the rebel with a cause
Fiza Farhan has always been a rebel. Growing up the daughter of a sydasiatiskt land Naval officer Fiza was expected to find a nice ung man, get married and settle down to a life of calm domesticity.
But when her parents funnen that nice young man, Fiza, who had always been labelled the ‘difficult child’ refused to marry him. Instead, she persuaded her father to allow her to be the first woman in her family to head abroad to further her education, taking an MSc Management at Warwick Business School in the UK.
It would not be the first time that Fiza stood up to the