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Break The Status Quo

Break The Status Quo

BY: Yolanda Pawar “Now more than ever, Eleuthera, The Bahamas and the region needs the ‘OEFs’ of the world – organizations that are willing to disrupt the status quo and partner with like-minded individuals and institutions to tackle some of the toughest challenges...

My Bahamian Journey

My Bahamian Journey

By: Lane Glaze                My first visit to the Bahamas took place nearly twenty years ago, in the spring of 2003. But when I reminisce over the twists and turns my life has taken over the...

Healthful Holiday Dining

Healthful Holiday Dining

By: Selima Hauber ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,’ and there is so much to be excited about this year. Our country’s premier national festival, Junkanoo, is back! Holiday house hopping will once again be in full effect – boiled fish breakfast at the...

Taking a Chance to Grow Ideas 

Taking a Chance to Grow Ideas 

By: Keyron Smith  Chief Operating Officer, OEF and CTI  "Keyron, why would you leave your good position and secure job to go work for a nonprofit on a family island? You realize they get their money from donations, right!?"  Many people asked me these...

How Green Spaces Can Make Life Sweeter 

How Green Spaces Can Make Life Sweeter 

By: Selima Hauber ‘Boy Elutra sweet nah!’ was the response from someone who had just learned that I was relocating from Nassau to Eleuthera. I often get similar responses from folks who ask how my family is enjoying living in Eleuthera. Everyone who’s vacationed on...

Dame Dr. Doris Johnson Should Inspire Us All 

Dame Dr. Doris Johnson Should Inspire Us All 

By Kim Williams-Pulfer, Ph.d  The times demand that Caribbean women must learn that they must either, as we say in The Bahamas, “fish or cut bait.”…I plead with our men not to remain asleep through this women’s revolutionary period. All must participate if the...

Opening a Path To a Brighter Future 

Opening a Path To a Brighter Future 

By: Yolanda Pawar (COO of OEF Foundation) Confession time - I sat down to write this article and after several hours of skillfully crafting the wording I looked at the sea of words on my screen and scrapped it, deciding to start from scratch. Why you might ask? ...