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Being human is not just being a man, a neuter or a woman

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Months ago, I was asked a question in one radio talk show and I seized the opportunity to talk of what I really believe in deeply. It is not what we do for ourselves, our families,  friends, ... that makes us "good peole" because that sounds like a task we should accomplish. Again, helping the ones we don't know is really important and it reveals the level of kindness we have for the humanity as a whole house we were given to take care of. One of the quotes I couldn't ignore at the time. "Planting a tree under whose shade we do not plan to sit".... Humannes, thus was revealed as " something beyond having physical characteristics of a  'human creature', but a heart full of hunger to make someone who will never thank you happy and fulfilled". To give with the left and make the right unaware of  what happened with the left. If you save a life of someone who saved yours will be like getting rid of a debt you contracted when you was dying...

The War we Are Not Fighting, but More Dangerous than Nuclear Weapons'.

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               Amal Hussain , a 7 Year-old Yemeni girl died this week. She simply suffered from dire consequences of malnutrition. There is a war that the world stopped or ignored fighting, but it is actually as killing as the one of guns and bombs_ Hunger .            One may ask himself about the reasons hunger has been globalized to almost all the continents. The answer has to incorporate elements like poverty, war, political instability, climate change,... These and some other potential causes are differently making millions and millions of people suffer from a chronic food insecurity what makes well-being an almost unattainable target. From Saturday November 3, 2018, the photo above went viral to different news sites from Times to Reuters talking of the extreme consequences touching the Yemeni people for the war tearing the country. However, my ...

This is what can only be found out of our comfort zones!

                         Photocredit: Lee @ Undergraduate remarks in InterUniversity Coucil for East Africa  2018 Symposium)  One day,  a cell phone rang and as I picked it up,  an almost impossible responsibility was assigned to me. Weeks after my courses about translation and interpretation,  contracts were signed and I just entered a world I had never thought I should be in one day. Translation was not simply a career to me,  but an open door to carry laughter and joy to the faces of those whose hearts have been filled with pain,  negativity,  struggles... My questions where_ possibly what many others asked me_ just finding the exact responses: What is that to sacrifice my time for something which doesn't pay me,  but tiresome and requiring sacrifice? Is that possible to deal it with my full-time school ...