The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic is trans­form­ing the way bil­lions of peo­ple live, work, buy, and re­late to one an­oth­er. In the midst of fear, con­fu­sion and anx­i­ety, the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion con­tin­ues to en­gage with and de­liv­er mean­ing­ful as­sis­tance to those most vul­ner­a­ble in our pop­u­la­tion es­pe­cial­ly those that live in res­i­den­tial in­sti­tu­tions like The Memisa Cen­tre in Ari­ma.

Chut­ney pro­duc­er Za­heer Khan, al­so known as the ‘D Pun­galunks’ or Big Rich, is fa­mous for serv­ing his friends meat-filled dish­es on his re­al­i­ty TV show ‘D’ Big Rich Lime’. Here, he makes a clas­sic mac­a­roni pie and adds a lay­er of sea­soned up canned corned beef in the mid­dle. Big Rich’s recipe for de­li­cious Corned Beef Mac­a­roni Pie makes the per­fect Sun­day lunch or potluck dish.

Bring out the pone with An­nie with this de­li­cious recipe. This pone will come out look­ing like a piece of art with a gold­en crust on the out­side and per­fect­ly moist on the in­side!

All that home com­fort you love, but a lit­tle eas­i­er on the tum­my for those who don’t do well with dairy. Bake this healthy pro­vi­sion pie with Nat­u­ral­ly Al­mond al­mond milk for a per­fect­ly rich and creamy tex­ture, full of great flavour, easy to make and al­ways a crowd fave.

Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al (SI) Es­per­ance has launched its newest project COVID Com­fort. Part One of the project called was Sewing to Save Lives.

Flow of­fice pro­fes­sion­als were pro­vid­ed with a sur­vivors’ guide to thriv­ing in a shift­ing world when the com­pa­ny host­ed an event to recog­nise their con­tri­bu­tion to the busi­ness.

The Jan­u­ary 26 Ju­nior/Na­tion­al Schools Panora­ma Fi­nal al­most feels like dis­tant his­to­ry in the haze of the COVID-19 lock­down—de­sert­ed schools and pa­n­yards like sleep­ing arte­facts. Class­rooms locked be­hind the screens of vir­tu­al teach­ing and learn­ing. But, for suc­cess­ful Bish­op Anstey & Trin­i­ty Col­lege East (BATCE) Steel Or­ches­tra arrangers An­tho­ny Miller and Jonathan Wat­son it’s no time to rest on the lau­rels of a mem­o­rable vic­to­ry in the sec­ondary schools’ cat­e­go­ry. BATCE last won in 2008.

The po­lice and ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor, as well as the Chil­dren Au­thor­i­ty, Child Pro­tec­tion pro­fes­sion­als, sport prac­ti­tion­ers, and oth­ers that gen­uine­ly care about chil­dren’s well­be­ing (qual­i­ty of a per­son’s en­tire life) and well­ness (phys­i­cal health), are con­cerned about what meth­ods par­ents are adopt­ing to keep a steadi­ly-sound liv­ing en­vi­ron­ment for their fam­i­ly whether par­ent two is there or not.

It’s not sur­pris­ing that there are mil­lions of peo­ple go­ing through adult life lead­ing un­healthy lifestyles and a sys­tem that can treat and man­age the symp­toms of ill­ness and keep you alive longer, than ever be­fore. From the look of things if we con­tin­ue with this trend it’s go­ing to be crip­pling, yet we seem to be com­fort­able with this lifestyle. Every­one at some point in their life talks about achiev­ing it from a holis­tic per­spec­tive, but most peo­ple al­ways have an ex­cuse as to why they can’t, won’t, or don’t want to change their com­pla­cent sta­tus.

In the cam­paign for so­cial dis­tanc­ing there seems to be a good mea­sure of suc­cess among most of us. As al­ways, there are er­rant ones and there are those whose rest­less­ness is at times threat­en­ing to self and com­mu­ni­ty.

This quar­an­tine life that we’ve been liv­ing may be more of a strug­gle for some than for oth­ers, but I’m cer­tain we’ve all had our mo­ments with re­gards to our food choic­es. At this time, we have been pro­vid­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty to more or less be wary of what we stock up on in the re­frig­er­a­tor and pantry; there­by al­low­ing us to con­trol the one ma­jor food en­vi­ron­ment (our home) where we find our­selves most of the time. Much of the time you may ask your­self, ‘am I hun­gry or just bored?’ One way to de­ter­mine this is to drink wa­ter in those mo­ments. If that doesn’t help and you do feel the urge to snack, sim­ply be con­scious of your choice.

Dur­ing this Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, health and con­tract­ing the Nov­el Coro­n­avirus is not the on­ly im­me­di­ate con­cern. Some quar­ters have called for a re­open­ing and rolling back on so­cial dis­tanc­ing mea­sures for fear of a crash­ing econ­o­my. And many have se­ri­ous chal­lenges with so­cial dis­tanc­ing mea­sures as hu­mans have not evolved to be locked-down. One’s men­tal well-be­ing could be se­ri­ous­ly af­fect­ed by iso­la­tion and quar­an­tine. In this month of May, des­ig­nat­ed Men­tal Health Aware­ness month, let’s look at how so­cial dis­tanc­ing can af­fect men­tal health and what we can do to pre­vent it.