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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Quotes

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (Mauritian Creole pronunciation: [bibi amina fiːədos ɡəʁib fakim]) GCSK (born 17 October 1959) is a Mauritian politician and biodiversity scientist who served as the sixth president of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018. In December 2014, she was selected to be the presidential candidate of the Alliance Lepep.

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So why capacity building matters for the African continent? Africa will be home to the youngest population on the planet and become the main source of human resource by 2050.

We have to do away with this rote learning. We have to ensure that we drive this curiosity in the child, and they need to be curious. And if we want to move along the line for them to become great scientists, they need to become more and more curious in everything they do.

one must always follow your heart. And my heart was always in chemistry.

Without science there is no development....
Scientists tend to stay in their ivory tower, not communicating.
They do good work, but without partnerships there will be no development.

To achieve success as a woman implies many things. It starts from childhood. It starts with the family when I had a father who invested in me, in my education, in building my self-confidence.

I only feel that I contributing to a cause that I firmly believe in. The belief in that cause has cost me dearly but I am not going to be deterred and it is also my own way of giving back!

"I think we need to break that vicious cycle where negative stereotypes abound and deter girls’ engagement in science." Dr. Ameenah F. In Q&A: Break vicious cycle that deters girls in science

Also a woman needs to believe in herself, never turn bitter when you have been denied something that you feel you rightly deserved.. use that energy to build a new pathway and NEVER ever give up.. Just know that at the end of a very dark tunnel, there is light!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.