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The Health Literacy Team of Lives For Literacy invites you to attend “ PANDEMIRRORS – Choose To Be A Warrior In This Pandemic And Not A Worrier! ❤️

Over the duration of 1 hour, you will hear from Dr.Shivani Bhatia Martin who will educate us about the available vaccines, number of doses and the myths vs facts 💉 🦠

Lives For Literacy is a youth led nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating illiteracy and raising awareness of the beauty of education, human rights and mental health among many others! ❤️🌏

This Pride Month, the *LGBTQIA+ Team* of Lives for Literacy in collaboration with Rotaract Club of Caduceus (@rccaduceus) is delighted to invite you to “Sexual and Gender Awareness (SAGA) in healthcare” – A Workshop: Mental Health of The LGBTQIA+ Community! 🏳️‍🌈 ⚧ 🏳️‍⚧️

For members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, PRIDE Month is the time where they get to celebrate getting to be themselves openly and celebrating the heroes that worked tirelessly for gay liberation. PRIDE Month is to celebrate our identity – no matter who we are. At Lives For Literacy, we believe in empowering all students, and to create safe spaces for important conversations. For many of this, we are still on this journey of understanding our identity, whether it be Gay, Straight, Cis, Trans or Non-Binary. You aren’t alone in your journey.

For this conversation, Lives For Literacy is proud to host Mike Iamele – a man who thought he was straight his entire life. But a life-changing illness forced him to challenge that notion head-on when he fell in love with his male caretaker. And the two of them went on a years-long journey to explore sexuality and fluidity to figure out if the relationship could work. When he chose to blog about his relationship, he had no idea that 100,000 people would share the post overnight, and he’d wake up to millions of people talking about his sex life. For most of the past decade, Mike has helped hundreds of people explore their own sexuality, identity, and purpose by mapping their experiences and what they’re most interested in.

@mikeiamele

As part of Lives For Literacy’s mission to create safe spaces to foster connection and student empowerment, a large part of that is mental health. Sandra Roldan Pines is a
Mental Health First Aid counselor with certifications in Mental Health Awareness for Adults/Children, Drug/Alcohol Awareness, Depression Awareness, Children Mental Well-being, Psychology for adults/children, Grief/Bereavement counseling, and Anxiety Awareness. Together she is going to be leading us in workshop on how to better connect with mental wellness, identify when we begin to struggle with our mental wellness and how to create better coping skills.

More On Sandra:
Sandra Roldan Pines is aMental Health First Aid counselor with certifications in Mental Health Awareness for Adults/Children, Drug/Alcohol Awareness, Depression Awareness, Children Mental Well-being, Psychology for adults/children, Grief/Bereavement counseling, and Anxiety Awareness. She counsels on mental health issues, especially individuals that are having issues with substance abuse, self-harming themself and/or possibly thinking of suicide.

This Pride Month, The *LGBTQIA+ Team* of Lives for Literacy in collaboration with *AMSA India* and *Rotaract Club of Caduceus* is delighted to present to you some amazing opportunities in AMSA India’s *LGBTQIA+ Summit*! ❤

Day 3 – 20th June: 🌟 *Pride Room* 🌟
An open discussion on inclusivity of the rainbow community in education and healthcare with Mr. Khakan Qureshi, Founder of the Birmingham South Asians LGBT – Finding a voice. ✨ To know more and register for the event, click on the link in our bio

This Pride Month, The *LGBTQIA+ Team* of Lives for Literacy in collaboration with *AMSA India* and *Rotaract Club of Caduceus* is delighted to present to you some amazing opportunities in AMSA India’s *LGBTQIA+ Summit*! ❤

Day 1 – 17th June: 🤴 *Prince’s Pride* 🤴
An interview about friendly LGBTQIA+ interventions with ✨Manvendra Singh Gohil, The Crown Prince of Rajpipla and the first member of a 👑Royal Family to openly come out as gay. To know more and register for the event, click on the link in our bio

In our bio, you will also find a booklet for the LGBTQ+ Summit* This is a comprehensive overview of the upcoming events. Kindly refer to it for more information!

In the fourth part of our Education is a Human Right Series, we are going to be looking the impact conflict has on one’s education. Countries such as Myanmar, Sudan, and Syria where Civil War and Genocide has put a halt to their lives and every day is a fight to survive. We at Lives For Literacy want to take this moment in our series to reflect on the experiences of these people and hear from refugees as they tell us their stories, battles and how they have turned their lived experiences into activism. Our guest speaker for today’s event is Sharifah Shakirah – a Myanmar Refugee and activist.

April 17th, 2021: Education is a Human Right Part Four – Conflict, Insecurity and Instability

In this 2-hour panel events hosted by Lives For Literacy’s Director of Outreach, @yug_shahrp , – we will be discussing the status and future of healthcare worldwide. Reflecting on the past year of the pandemic; we want to confront the equities made present, and question – who can we make a more equitable health system. Even more so, what has been the impact of global health in our lives. In our panel we will be hearing from a variety of perspectives to answer these questions and together reflect and commemorate World Health Day.

As part of Lives for Literacy’s 12-part series exploring barriers and experiences surrounding quality access to education, we are discussing gender and sex discrimination as barrier to education worldwide. In this 1.5-hour event we are going to be learning about this issue from the perspective of activists.

Joining us are guest speakers; Hinna Asefi Wardak – an Afghani youth Ambassador to UNICEF and Fernando Perez, an El Salvadorian activist and founder of Espacio Joven, an organization that promotes equal education for everyone. We encourage everyone who can to join us, hear testimonials, learn together what activism can look like in our daily lives and what it means to say and believe – Education is a Human Right.

In collaboration with @reachout2all we are conducting a workshop on Education in Lockdown!

Our VP External, @yabaha12 will be conducting this session. BAMBA YABAHA is a young Ivorian striving to contribute greatly to the betterment of the World. For him, leaving this world without his extraordinary contribution in his Country Côte d’Ivoire in particular, and the World in general would be living a useless life. Hence, being Vice-President External & Co-Director of International Affairs of Lives For Literacy after starting as a volunteer will be for him a special time to help many people around the world as the organization has volunteers from Africa, Canada, Asia, America, etc.

The Refugees & Migration Working Group of Lives For Literacy Presents “For Sama” by Waad Al-Khateab: A Documentary Screening!!

For Sama, consists of an intimate and epic journey into the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of war uprising in Aleppo, Syria. A tale based on true events as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all the while conflict rises around her.

If you’d like to register for the documentary screening or want to join the Refugees & Migration WG, please dm or email!!

We are proud to be presenting a 2SLGBTQ+ Canadian History Workshop Series!

The 2SLGBTQ+ History Program is funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage under its Youth Take Charge Program and is run by the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD). The CCGSD is a non-profit organization based in Ottawa with the mission of empowering gender and sexually diverse communities through
education, research, and advocacy; our vision is a world without discrimination.

Lives for Literacy brings you this round-table style workshop series to foster community and connection all the while studying Canadian History! You are going to hear from both student speakers and professionals, hearing personal stories about their own struggles and learning how together we can overcome these barriers.

2SLGBTQ+ history is a topic often left out of school textbooks in Canada. This program seeks to actively remedy this fact by highlighting the ways in which queer history has dramatically impacted the Canadian landscape. We teach about history with the intention of centering pre-colonial understandings of gender and sexuality and we aim to amplify QTBIPOC voices and realities. The program provides a positive learning platform for youth ages 14-29 to learn about events that have shaped the 2SLGBTQ+ experience and reinforce a shared sense of identity.

**ONLY THOSE SELECTED WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE on March 20 & 21, 2021 10am to 12pm EST**

Lives For Literacy Presents: A Mental Health Series. The dates are March 6th, 13th and 20th from 1:00 – 2:30pm EST on ZOOM.

A Mental Health Series with The Cuddle Couple:
Building Meaningful Connections and Finding Joy in the Age of Social Media

Even in an age when countless apps have been designed to bring us closer together and promise us more fulfilling friendships and relationships, this world can sometimes feel like such a lonely and overwhelming place. Why is it, though, that we aren’t getting what we need? What is missing? And most importantly, what can we do to cultivate deep, nourishing and safe connections with others? In this mental health series, you will get to dig deep into some of these questions and explore what joy and connection in relation with others means to you. How would life change for you if the way you felt about your environment and the people around you changed? How would your mental health be impacted? Join Emma and Pablo from the Cuddle Couple for three in-depth workshops offered to help you build meaningful connections and find joy in this age of social media.

WEEKLY BREAKDOWN:
Week 1 – Social media and connection, why the disconnection?
Week 2 – What are friendships and relationships to you?
Week 3 – Making connection sustainable

ABOUT THE CUDDLE COUPLE:
The Cuddle Couple is a wellness-based business based out of Toronto, Canada that is run by a caring and cuddly couple – Emma and Pablo. Through their work, they help people rediscover themselves and connect with those around them in a deeper and more meaningful way. They offer virtual relational coaching sessions to adults and students globally and also offer in-person cuddle therapy support, each designed to help explore the challenges and questions that surround connection, intimacy, communication and vulnerability in a cozy, comforting and loving environment.