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The Hindu
29-05-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
Over 250 transpersons complete vocational & IT courses, get certificates
Deena.G, a 22-year-old transman, has completed a training course on baking. He hopes to set up a small unit of his own in hospitals. 'As a nursing student, I see lot of such units offering a way to satisfy hunger of people at a crucial time. It's satisfying to see something I make bring happiness to others,' he said. Like Deena, 300 others have graduated in various vocational courses offered by Sahodaran, an NGO, CGI, an IT and business consulting firm working to uplift LGBTQIA+ community. They were collecting their certificates at an event in Chennai on Thursday. The skill development programme, which has seen three batches of 300 transpersons graduate, aims to uplift and empower transgender individuals, while also working to break down social stigma and pave the way for societal acceptance in companies. Speaking at an event, Rekha Vijayaraman, HR business partner, CGI said, 'There are two types of courses — long term and short term. The short-term courses include baking, perfume making and driving while long term courses include IT related programming languages such as JAVA and others. There are also plans to offer further training in IT-related fields which would be required for their placement.' Through this course, Sanjana.S, a transwoman, has discovered independence in driving. 'I was able to get my licence and also bought a car. 'When I stop at a tollgate, people ask in awe how I learned. Now, I can go anywhere,' she said. S. Valarmathi, MD of Tamil Nadu Working Women's Hostel Corporation Limited, urged them to get their transgender identity cards as soon as possible. K.V. Reshma, Joint Director of Rural Projects, Kasturi Prasad and Ramanand Karthigeyan - deputy chairpersons of CGI were also present at the event.
Buzz Feed
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Some Of These Fixins Need Fixin: We're Food Swapping 'Southern Plates'
Some Of These Fixins Need Fixin: We're Food Swapping 'Southern Plates' Today we have Angela (wasn't she in another episode, too?), B. Able, and Deena. While many have their thoughts on what deserves to be on a southern plate and what shouldn't, the one thing we can all agree on is you can't eat everybody's plate – and we'll see who's plate we won't be serving in this episode of 'Food Swap.' Deena is up first and she made some collard greens, yams, baked mac and cheese, baked wings, and potato salad. It looks good (to me), but not to B. Able. He was not feeling and took a bite of the mac and cheese claiming it was 'too cheesy.' Angela, on the other hand, was busting that mac and cheese down but did mention it was 'salty.' They both liked the yams but were not happy with the collard greens nor the baked wing. Deena, A for effort baby. Final score: 13.1 Next is B. Able – and while he was ready to dish out the shade, let's see if he'll be able to take it. His plate, which has a garlic encrusted prime rib roast, baked macaroni and cheese, collard greens with bacon, and garlic hawaiian rolls. The plate looked unappetizing to me, and to the ladies as well. Angela said the plate looked 'sad.' Deena said she can smell some flavors, but is not a fan of the greens. She says they 'aren't seasoned enough.' They both said the meat wasn't flavorful. Now the roll, while burnt, didn't taste too bad to Deena. Final score: 8 Last but not least, we have Angela's plate. Now, Angela's plate – a little shifty because the greens had rosemary on top and I'm not sure why. She had some mac and cheese and turkey wings on the plate, too. B. Able takes a bite of the mac and says it's 'too cheesy' and 'bland' while Deena isn't too mad at it. B. Able did like the greens though, while Deena felt they tasted 'interesting,' yet flavorful. The final thing on the plate was the corn muffin – and immediately no. Deena spit that thang right on out and B. Able said it was 'dry.' Final score: 14 Of course we love to have a surprise guest – and we have our girl Joyce who knows a thing or two about southern plates. She starts off with Deena's plate and she wasn't too mad at it. While the chicken was under seasoned a bit, everything else on the plate was satisfying. She gave our cousin Deena an 8. Next, we have B. Able's plate. She said it gives a good plate to sit in front of the television. An All-American plate if you will. Joyce enjoyed the meat, the collard greens were a bit sour, and the mac and cheese could've used some pepper. She didn't like the bread and gave it a 7. Last but not least – it's Angela's turn and she loved the presentation. She said the collard greens are 'heavenly' but felt the mac and cheese could have some salt and pepper. She gave it a 7.5. This means Angela wins the southern plate competition and did her big one. Check out the fun facial expressions and commentary in the video below.
Bloomberg
12-02-2025
- Health
- Bloomberg
Parents Were Pushing for Safer Foods Long Before RFK Jr.'s MAHA
Hi, it's Deena in New York. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again agenda, and the MAHA moms who back it, have grabbed a lot of attention lately. But people have been pushing for safer food for years. More on that in a moment, but first … One of President Joe Biden's final acts was to ban the dye Red No. 3. Considering that it was first linked to cancer more than 30 years ago, this had a lot of people asking, 'what took so long?'
The National
07-02-2025
- Health
- The National
Gaza teenager with complex PTSD highlights war's impact on children
Live updates: Follow the latest on Israel-Gaza The sound of a child crying, a plane overhead or an argument may not upset most people but for Palestinian teenager Deena Zaghout they are enough to start her sobbing and send her into convulsions. The 17-year-old's reaction is the result of trauma experienced over the course of the war in Gaza, her family and her psychiatrist say. After the war began in October 2023, her family fled their home in Al Karama, northern Gaza, because of Israeli bombing. They have moved 12 times since, fleeing air strikes and ground fighting in Israel's war on the Palestinian enclave, . "Deena would be very afraid and starts screaming 'strike, strike' for about two hours, until she gets tired and sleeps," her mother Nehaya Zaghout, 36, told The National. Two months into the war, Deena was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As a result, her mental age has dwindled to that of a five-year-old child, her doctor said. "It is a defence mechanism. Her childlike behaviour is a result of the trauma, as if it were a regression to a stage of life in which she used to live safely," said Dr Khaled Milad, a psychiatrist who treated Deena when her family was living in Rafah, southern Gaza. Shortly after leaving their home, the family moved into an apartment in Nuseirat, central Gaza. Deena's younger brother Saeed, nine, had gone out to buy groceries when an air strike hit the building opposite. She fainted, thinking Saeed had been killed. "She's very protective of him and he's her only brother," said Ms Zaghout. "She fainted for the first time and when she woke up we showed her that her brother was alive and well." After this incident, Deena was plunged into a state of constant fear and anxiety, and began screaming, crying, fainting, locking her limbs and convulsing whenever she heard a loud noise nearby, especially the sound of planes or air strikes. Sometimes, even the memory of past events is enough to trigger sheer panic, her mother said. "In this state, I treat her as if she is five years old," Ms Zaghout said. "Her little brother tries to comfort her. She brings him to her and hugs him because she gets scared for him." At these times, Deena can fail to differentiate between her family members, sometimes mistaking her uncle for her father, her mother said. "The hardest feeling is when you see your daughter suffering in front of your eyes and you can't do anything for her. I hope no other human feels what I feel." With Ms Zaghout's consent, The National viewed Deena's medical reports and spoke to her psychiatrist for a full picture of her diagnosis. "Deena was exposed to several traumatic incidents near her during the war, which led to her suffering from many symptoms, including disturbing nightmares about the events, difficulty concentrating, outbursts of anger, remembering painful memories and a tendency towards isolation," said Dr Milad, who works for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). These come on top of epileptic seizures she has had since she was younger, which have become more frequent because of her trauma, he added. The criteria for a PTSD diagnosis is exposure to a life-threatening traumatic event and persistent symptoms for at least a month afterwards, he said. In Deena's case, she is diagnosed with "complex PTSD", meaning prolonged exposure to traumatic events after the initial distress. "There are many cases that resulted from this war and most of the children of Gaza suffer from symptoms of fear and anxiety, behavioural changes, acute stress disorder, frequent urination, agitation, irritability, difficulty sleeping and coping," he said. He said psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and others would become more apparent in children and their caregivers after the war ends. "This war, in the long term, will directly affect children who have been subjected to forced displacement, continuous and indiscriminate bombing, the sounds of bullets, destruction, terror and loss," he added. Dr Milad said children such as Deena can recover but a long process of psychological treatment including medication, with continuous follow-up and social support. Before the war, Deena was an introvert who loved studying and dreamt of becoming a nurse, but over the past year her condition has worsened. She has not been able to see a psychiatrist for seven months after her family moved to Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, where they now live. "Doctors said that she needs to be in a calm, quiet and safe place, but honestly there is no safe place in Gaza," Ms Zaghout said. "She also needs sessions and professionals to talk to, but the hospitals don't have time for cases like these ... they [have to] treat the physically injured." Deena's family often take her to hospital for sedative injections but Ms Zaghout says this is only a temporary fix that will not help her recover, but could hurt her in the long term. She hopes that Deena can eventually leave Gaza for treatment. "I hope someone can take her outside [of Gaza] for treatment so she can get better. The most important thing is her treatment."
