The Happiness Lab

by Danielle Kuznetsov, AWO Moscow


Photo by Anni Smith 2 Sunflower with logo 22What if you could build a life that feels good most of the time – a life that serves you during the most challenging situations and prepares you for when things don't go as planned? COVID-19 has invited us all, globally, to this exact endeavor. We have been forced to stop, look and listen, not...

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Introducing FAWCO's Target Project

by Mary Dobrian, AIWC Cologne


Hope logoOn March 21, FAWCO’s Target Team announced our Target Project – Health for 2020-2022: 

S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for FGM Elimination), a project of HOPE for Girls and Women, Tanzania.

The project will 

  • support Safe Houses for girls fleeing forced female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Mara region of Tanzania;
  • provide healthcare and psychosocial counseling for...
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Pelvic Organ Prolapse – An Issue for Many Women

By June Bechara, AWC Lebanon

 

What is pelvic organ prolapse? 

The "pelvic floor" is a group of muscles that form a kind of hammock across your pelvic opening. Usually, these muscles and the tissues surrounding them keep the pelvic organs in place. These organs include your bladder, uterus, vagina, small bowel and rectum.

Sometimes these muscles and tissue develop problems.

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Saving Women’s Lives in Pregnancy and Childbirth – We Must Try Harder

By Mary Stewart Burgher, AWC Denmark

 

We all love to see happy mothers and their smiling babies, but pregnancy and childbirth are often difficult and dangerous. They have become much safer for women: for example, maternal deaths are now expressed as the number per 100,000 live births – in contrast to newborn deaths, which are expressed as the number...

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Could an Apple a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away?

by Lisa O’Hearn, Munich International Women’s Club

 

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away…”* While a 2015 study by researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan found no evidence that this old Welsh proverb was true – adult consumers of one small apple per day had the same number of physician visits as those who did...

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What time is it?

What Time is it?

by Stephanie Biery, AWC Berlin

 

<a href="https://picspree.com/de/photos/liquidlibrary-764227">LiquidLibrary</a>                   on                   <a href="https://picspree.com/de">Picspree</a>I love to travel. I also love a good night’s rest. How do you combine these two experiences? According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), jet lag occurs when our biological clock is disrupted. The NSF believes our bodies work on circadian rhythms, our internal 24-hour clock. Our sleep-wake cycles...

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