This is a Story of Impact that has been never been told, yet it is so significant that once you know this story you cannot possibly understand why others don’t know it too! This story will reveal to you some facts about key contributing factors to the American Independence war that few...
Stories from Our Community
A Trilogy – 1. The Fall & the Maroon Queen
Jul 02, 2016
Le Morne Cultural Landscape in Mauritius is one of the most important UNESCO World Heritage Sites on Maroonage and the resistance to slavery and oppression, due to what took place by the tremendous courage, bravery, strategy and skilfulness of the maroons who fought against slavery and...
Vectors of Love – the Stories behind it
Jun 27, 2016
The concept Vectors of Love™, which I introduced during my recent TEDx ALC talk “Our World in crisis – how Love can provide a solution”, came as a result of many years of work, different life experiences and my personal reflections on how to support transformational...
Art for Social Change
Jun 25, 2016
A few weeks ago we had the most inspiring talk by Alex Mativo, Founder & CEO of E-LAB and student at the African Leadership University (ALU). As part of our Education for Sustainability (EfS) programme we invited Alex to St Mary’s College Rose-Hill, one of the EfS focus schools, to talk...
Ecological Literacy – a basic Life Skill
Dec 25, 2015
Ecological Literacy is a basic life-skill that every human being on our planet should be supported to develop and is part of our personal development. Ecology as a science is about the relationships between organisms and their natural environment. Over the last two hundred years through the...
Learning Reflections by BPS College
Dec 08, 2015
Earth is the only planet we know so far, in our solar system which can sustain life. One of the main reasons why, is because we have water and when we look at our planet from space, the oceans combined with the atmosphere make the planet looks blue; from space we may have the incredulous belief...
Leadership for the Future
Nov 25, 2015
Leadership is not a title that you can acquire and it has nothing to do with ‘position’. Rather it is about attitude, skill, approach and the manner in which you are able to influence outcomes and situations. You cannot become a leader by holding a leadership position. It is also not...
Music education for Social Change
Nov 25, 2015
This article has been created to showcase how Music Education can be a powerful catalyst for positive Social Change. Through this interview with José Thérese, Director of Atelier Mo’zar, School of Music, the reader learns of the amazing ways that Mr Thérese has used...
Unlearning to learn anew
Sep 25, 2015
‘Systems Thinking’
Only a couple of months ago this concept was unknown to me but now I am striving to wrap my consciousness round this notion. I felt quite disappointed in myself, for someone who prided in thinking outside the box and adhering to non-conformity, as I discovered how...
Social Innovation and the Arab Spring
Aug 25, 2015
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin’s comments are perhaps more relevant now than ever before; adaptation to change is at the centre of building resilience for sustainability....
