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20 Things to Say to Your Daughter Before She's Grown

From a very young age our girls are targeted with messed-up media messages (think "Thin is beautiful, and beautiful is everything, and if you want to be happy, you need these shoes!") and exposed to all manner of temptations, online and otherwise. As a parent who can shape who they'll become, there are many life lessons that I'd want to teach any child of mine. But there is also some specific advice for daughters. Here are 20 girl-centric things I want them to know....

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Social Entrepreneurship

Huawei Commemorates World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) in Botswana

Huawei Technologies MD for Botswana Deng Feng handing over the sports kits to the Maun Tigers Football Club during the WTISD on Friday.

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, partnered with Ministry of Transport and Communication in Maun to commemorate this year’s ITU World Information Society day in whose them theme is ICTs and improving road safety.

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Market place

Orange CEO Calls for Revenue Share between Google and Network Operators

Telkom Kenya CEO Mickael Ghossein shakes hands with Google Kenya country manager Joseph Mucheru while Informa Telecoms & Media’s Matt Reed and Shahab Meshki of KDN look on.

Orange Kenya CEO Mickael Ghossein has called on search giant Google to consider sharing revenues accrued from traffic which runs on other providers’ networks in order to enhance partnerships and the development of the digital ecosystem.

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Leadership

Nigeria to host African Business Women’s Advocacy Forum: Women’s Leadership-Why Africa is Rising

Vital Voices Global Partnership and Women in Management, Business, and Public Service (WIMBIZ) today announced the hosting of the Supporting Public Advocacy for Regional Competitiveness (SPARC) Program and Forum in Lagos, Nigeria. The one-day forum for women is scheduled for Thursday 23, May 2013, and will highlight business women’s advocacy efforts for increased economic empowerment across four African countries, namely Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and host Nigeria.

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Work place

Apple's Tim Cook Defends Tax Claim

The technology giant Apple has been defending itself against accusations that it's avoided paying tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits. Chief executive Tim Cook told a US Senate committee Apple paid all the taxes it owed, complying with both the law, and the spirit of the law. He said last year it paid $6bn to the US Treasury, a tax rate of about 30%.

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Environment

Under One Per Cent of Clean Energy Technology Patents Filed in Africa, Highlighting Huge Potential for Exploiting Renewable Sources

A new study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Patent Office (EPO)—Patents and Clean Energy Technologies in Africa—to be launched on Monday finds that Africa has a huge untapped potential for generating clean energy, but that the slow pace of technology transfer is preventing this from being fully exploited.

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Health

Psychosocial Course Aims to Heal Scars Caused by Libyan Conflict

IOM, in partnership with Tripoli University, has completed a six-month course for 31 Libyan health, educational and social experts on how to cope with psychological reactions in the aftermath of 2011 Libyan conflict.The “Psychosocial Responses in War-Torn Societies” programme was designed to increase knowledge and awareness of psychosocial approaches in addressing psychological and social impacts of collective violence.

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Education

Barbara Ackonor Receives Chevening/Mansion House Scholarship

Ms. Barbara Ackonor has been announced as the 2013/14 Chevening-Mansion House Scholar. She will receive a scholarship worth £23,000 which is jointly funded by Chevening (£15,400) and Mansion House (£7,500) to study an MSc in Finance at Durham University. Mansion House Scholarships are awarded by the Lord Mayor of the City of London in some of the countries he visits each year, in his primary role of promoting the UK Financial Services Sector and the City of London in particular.

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CSR Reports

LILIMED holds post-surgery clinic for cured lepers

Life for the Living Medical and Humanitarian Centre (LILIMED), has organised a post-surgery appraisal clinic at Godokpe near Ho for 49 cured lepers.Cured lepers have been beneficiaries of free eye surgeries under the auspices of the centre's within the past two years.

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Social Initiatives

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to Make Historic Joint Visit to Africa’s Great Lakes Region May 22-24

World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make an historic joint visit to Africa’s Great Lakes region from May 22nd – 24th in support of a recent landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in one of the world’s most troubled regions.

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Society

Women Deliver 2013 To Gather Global Audience On-Site And Online

On May 28-30, thousands of global leaders will gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for one of the largest conferences of the decade focused on girls and women. This landmark conference - Women Deliver 2013 - will call on the global community to continue to place girls' and women's health and rights at the top of the global development agenda.

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Features

Samsung Partners Standard Chartered Bank To Bring GALAXY S4 To Everyone

The new Samsung GALAXY S4 is currently the world's most sought after smartphone, which has resulted in a continuous rise in the demand for the smartphone on the local market. Samsung Ghana in their effort to satisfy the needs of valued customers and ensure the GALAXY S4 reaches all, has partnered Standard Charted Bank, one of the leading banks in the country, to introduce a flexible payment plan to meet all pockets.

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African Leaders Ideas Exchange

Intergenerational Dialogue Opens on The Role of Women in the African Renaissance

The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa has stressed the need for a candid intergenerational dialogue about what the pioneers of African feminism and the gender agenda are bequeathing to young women today so as to be able to take the vision forward in the next fifty years.

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AfricanCEO

'Technology that Enriches Lives', an Interview on Huawei’s Work in Africa

Mr. Dafeng In a previous 'Huawei Android Challeng' event. (Image: CSR Africa Files)

CSR Africa’s Publisher, Dr. John Muthee met Mr. Dafeng, Huawei’s Regional President for East and Central Africa on the sidelines of the 5th BRICS summit at Durban, South Africa. Partly sponsored by Huawei, the summit brought the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa together in a shared goal of achieving peace, security and development through mutual cooperation.

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AfricanCIO

The Ghanaian Woman who Made Millions Fighting Skin-bleaching

Ghana's Grace Amey-Obeng, one of West Africa's most successful businesswomen, made her fortune promoting products which emphasised the beauty of the black skin, at a time when many of her competitors were selling dangerous skin-bleaching formulas. The business empire she started a quarter of a century ago with around $100 (£63) now has an annual turnover of between $8m and $10m.

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Lifestyle

Top 7 Face-Friendly Foods

Face-friendly food 1: Berries Berries act as the perfect healthy skin pick 'n' mix as they provide the perfect combo of antioxidants and vitamins

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