This year I featured in a video celebrating all the different women at my workplace. Hearing all these women from different backgrounds share what women’s day means to them, their achievements and some of the greatest challenges they have experienced as women, I realized one thing. Irrespective of nationality, religious background or level of education, women experience the same challenges, one thing that kept on appearing in everyone’s interview in different forms is the fact that they are looked down as women, the fact their voice has been silenced in one way or another. I am encouraged that those hurdles …
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I had paragliding on my bucket list for some time but didn’t dare do it on my own. So when a friend asked me if I would like to do it together, I jumped at the opportunity. Being the adrenaline junkie that I am, my main goal of paragliding was for the thrill. Having done some other adventure sports I think bungee jumping still tops that list for most thrilling adventure sports. Nonetheless, it was quite an experience right from take-off, the flight, the landing not to mention the bird’s eye-view of the city. The instructors were extremely friendly and …