27th September 2026

FEATURE: Menopause: How to save your relationship

For years, British-born marketing executive and photographer Simon Salt (63) and his Texan wife Michelle (52), struggled to make sense of why she was suddenly feeling so off kilter and their relationship seemed to be fraying at the edges.
Simon, who is now a certified menopause coach, says this gap in knowledge often leads to men filling in the blanks with their own, usually not very helpful, theories.
“About eight years ago when my wife went into peri...

11th August 2026

FEATURE: Surviving vs Thriving: The hidden hunger eating away at Zambia’s potential

Not one but two National Heroes Stadiums are packed to maximum capacity. Over 120,000 Zambians waiting for the game to start, with thousands more queuing to get in. The catch? There is no game. Not for 4% of the nation’s children below the age of 5, whose bodies are literally wasting away in one of the most resource-rich countries in the world. Starving children filling Zambia’s great stadium 2.1 times over. If they survive, they will join 32% of their countrymen whose physical growth and cogniti...

11th August 2026

FEATURE: Zambia on a precipice: Raising its leaders of tomorrow who can barely read

Poor literacy rates in Zambia are a ticking timebomb. Zambia has the 8th youngest population in the world, with 52.6% (roughly 11 million) below the age of 18. Half of these youths are unlikely to complete school because they live in rural areas, and according to the World Bank Learning Poverty Brief, of the students who are in school, barely any of them will be able to read properly by the time they leave primary school.
Zambia’s young population has put an enormous strain o...

Medium • 27th July 2026

Inside the Zambian app turning two-minute quizzes into teaching strategy

How a Zambian start-up is using quick curriculum-aligned quizzes to tackle one of Africa’s most challenging classroom realities.With the average student to teacher ratio in Zambia roughly 50 to 1, and even higher in rural settings with little or no access to modern technology, a teacher’s ability to adequately assess and address their learners’ progress is a constant, uphill struggle. According to the World Bank Poverty Brief, up to 99% of Zambian learners are still illiterate at the age of 10,...

Medium • 22nd July 2026

From victim to victor: Meet the Zambian women transforming tragedy into triumph

For Faren Kudzai-Sakupwanya and Tryphena Nkana Mwelwa, the journey to healing from abuse has been long and winding, and shrouded by a pain so intense they struggled to live through it all. Yet today, these incredible women stand tall not just as victorious survivors, but empowered visionaries leading the charge to end the cycle of gender-based violence (GBV) and abuse gripping the nation.According to the Zambia Police Service, 10,231 GBV cases were filed in the first quarter of 2026 alone, 37% o...

Medium • 20th July 2026

VIDEO: The Croatian Kokoro Community: Mindfulness Over Monetary Gain

On Croatia’s sunny coast, where over 20 million tourists flock each year to pristine beaches, a quiet village tells a different story. In Kaštel Lukšić, yoga teacher Anita Maleš and her husband Ante have made an unusual choice: rather than renting out their second home for profit, they’ve given it away — to their spiritual community, free of charge.The result is Kokoro Home, a gathering place built on the Japanese concept of kokoro, the connection between heart, mind, and soul. As the home takes...

Medium • 20th July 2026

VIDEO: Monumental: An ancient victory arch for Roman Emperor Trajan discovered in Croatia

Dicmo, Croatia. Retired architect and designer Božo Kokan (74) spent decades collecting stone fragments scattered across his village fields. Years later, he discovered they were remnants of an ancient victory arch for the revered 2nd century Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus, popularly knows as Trajan, that once stood on his ancestral land.

Dicmo, Croatia. Retired architect and designer Božo Kokan (74) spent decades collecting stone fragments scattered across his village fields. Years later,...

Medium • 19th July 2026

Coffee, Safety, and Financial Freedom: Why Young Croatians Are Torn Between Home and Abroad

Croatia’s high safety rankings, Adriana said, are also a growing attraction.“I was driving to the supermarket in Croatia around 9.30 in the evening when I saw a few girls walking on their own in the dark, and I was like, how cool is that? I wouldn’t do that in Germany.”Although she has definite plans to take the leap, financial security remains complicated.“The ideal plan would be having a German job with a German salary and living in Croatia. I know that [Croatian] jobs are sadly not well paid,...

World Bank Blogs • 11th March 2022

From recovery to real rewards: The story of Zambia’s private sector resilience

If the measure of a man is not how he falls but how he rises when he does, so then the measure of an enterprise is not that it will face a crisis, but how it rebounds when it does. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic spared no one. Economies across the globe are still dealing with the cascade of aftershocks caused by the disruptions to “business as usual.”