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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
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
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...
Growing for the Future, The OASIS Growhouse, A Gateway to Food Security
This month will be historic for One Eleuthera Foundation (OEF) and our sister entity The Centre for Training and Innovation (CTI) located in Rock Sound, Eleuthera. It will mark the first planting of our newly completed, and quite revolutionary 1.1-acre solar powered...
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
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
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
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? ...