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HAPPY CHILDREN'S DAY: Safe Child, Happy Child! 🌷🌹💐☂️🎈🎁🎀

We must be careful about the arrows we are shooting, because they will either sustain legacies or destroy them. We need to give our children the necessary attention to be safe, productive, and to build a great support system for us and future generations to come. In every child is a nation and neglecting a child is neglecting a nation. It is our collective responsibility to give our children the life they deserve. We celebrate our children today. To every Nigerian child, we love you. 🥰 #SHADE_IN

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES: REAFFIRMING THE NEED TO SUPPORT VULNERABLE FAMILIES

By Igbayilola Joseph Mayowa(SHADE-IN) According to Merriam-Webster vulnerable means capable of being physically or emotionally wounded, open to attack or damage, liable to increased penalties but entitled to increased bonuses after winning a game in contract bridge. Vulnerable is ultimately derived from the Latin noun vulnus ("wound"). "Vulnus" led to the Latin verb vulnerare, meaning "to wound," and then to the Late Latin adjective vulnerabilis, which became "vulnerable" in English in the early 1600s. "Vulnerable" originally meant "capable of being physically wounded" or "having the power to wound" (the latter is now obsolete), but since the late 1600s, it has also been used figuratively to suggest a defenselessness against non-physical attacks. In other words, someone (or something) can be vulnerable to criticism or failure as well as to literal wounding. When it is used figuratively, "vulnerable&qu