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“Fitness is not a joke” by SZ was an amazing read! Seriously, fitness is not a joke! I agree that we should engage in some sort of physical activities to stay healthy; surely, “our bodies are made for movement” but the problem is fitness trainers especially the professional ones take hefty fees for training people. Even boot camps are too pricey! I think trainers should also do something about it.

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Newsflash

Commonwealth Youth Awards

This year many outstanding young people were recognized at the Youth Forum of the Commonwealth Summit. Awards celebrated young people’s contribution towards a fairer, more sustainable, more secure and more prosperous future for the Commonwealth.

The regional winners were presented with their awards by the UK’s Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds.

The regional winner for Africa and Europe, Sherifah Tumusiime, 29, is from Uganda. She founded Zimba Women, a social enterprise that helps underserved women get internet access. Jonathan Barcant, 29, the regional winner for Caribbean and Americas, is from Trinidad and Tobago. He founded Vetiver TT, a cost-effective bio-engineering scheme to build climate change resilience. He would like to take the scheme to other nations affected by hurricanes such Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica.

The regional winner for Asia, Vanessa Paranjothy, 29, from Singapore, co-founded Freedom Cups with her sisters. It provides underprivileged women with menstrual products in a buy-one-give-one model.

Their projects demonstrate the powerful potential of young people all over world.

Reflection

Narrated by Mujahid

‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said, “Allah’s Apostle took hold of my shoulder and said, ‘Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.” The sub-narrator added: Ibn ‘Umar used to say, “If you survive till the evening, do not expect to be alive in the morning, and if you survive till the morning, do not expect to be alive in the evening, and take from your health for your sickness, and (take) from your life for your death.”

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 76, Number 425

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