A study by UN Women found that more than 90% of women had been assaulted on public buses in Port Moresby, PNG. This high rate of violence was keeping women home from work and girls from school. In 2016, the Meri Seif Bus was introduced. This is a free women only bus which works on so many levels. It educates women about sexual violence, consent, street violence and women's empowerment while they sit on the bus. It creates a safe space for them to share stories and views. It offers referral pathways for women in need. All this happens whilst enjoying a safe ride on the bus to their final destination. The program has been expanding with new buses in both Lae and Port Moresby. https://unwomen.org.au/resource/meri-seif-bus-factsheet/
Female doctors are in short supply in Pakistan despite women making up 70% of all medical students. This is because what is known as the "doctor bride" phenomenon; women in Pakistan who have medical degrees but stop practising to look after their children and/or because of social pressure. These doctors are desperately needed as 50% of the total Pakistani population lacks access to a doctor in their community. Sehat Kahani is the solution. Trained female doctors work from home using telemedicine and consult with patients in remote areas who come to an E-Health clinic. https://sehatkahani.com/
Did you know that 1/3 of produced clothing stock is dead stock and therefore cannot be sold? Or that 13% of Australia's population is below poverty? Thread Together is an organisation that solves the problem of fast fashion waste by giving back to the community. They take unused clothing and shoes from high-quality Australian fashion retailers and deliver it to less fortunate people who are in need, while saving new clothing from going directly to landfill. https://www.threadtogether.org/
WordFlow is an Australian company with new smart software that converts Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word documents to an easily searchable HTML format. It performs in more than 100 languages, tags critical words on every page; and, boasts superior security to other formats.To prove that WordFlow's software could dramatically increase the number of visitors to a website the Banking Royal Commission's final report was downloaded and digitised to become the most popular unofficial provider of the report.
Every page in the report is now searchable so anyone can seek out any aspect of the findings without having to read the entire document.
