aristotleofmythoughts

Note: I decided to make my curiosity-driven Wikipedia wormhole finally result in some kind of output. And...here it is tada!  why?: I read a book about period advocacy by Nadya Okamoto, a young woman who's inspiring advocating for relief from period poverty. In the book she mentioned a range of ideas but one that caught my attention was her idea of a "smart pad" that could measure period blood use this data to give women accurate updates on their health. This blew my mind, and sparked a chain of curiosity that led me down a day of furious research to...a short post about period tech. Tada!  period apps: If you go to the App store and search up ‘period apps’  you will be faced with an avalanche of different apps. Some of the more popular ones are Flo and Clue. These apps track your period and period health, guarantee your privacy, and give you health recommendations. (Smaller facts about periods are actually often central to womens’ health, and can be a predictor of thing...

  I spent the last four days at ILMUNC as delegate of Kenya and got an Oustanding Delegate award! : )  Concerns/challenges I had before conference: *not having enough research for Kenya as a country without nuclear power (I had to pull research from different African Union policies)  *not having enough resources as a country to propose globally effective solutions (I had to make many plans involving regional alliances etc)  *having a very idealistic country policy including several nuclear free zones that some countries did not agree with (I had to research strong precedents such as Pelindaba treaty and also supplement my ideas with detailed Confidence Building Measures to prove my solutions were grounded)  *also just having a bigger committee in general and being a single del again  I improved!:  *ability to negotiate successful! mergers  *leading a 30+ people bloc  *doing effective Q&A and defending my paper properly!  *spoke more ...