Grownup

• Since its inception in 2021, the Foundation has committed approximately £15 million to 30 organisations, in CD&R's local communities of New York City and London.
• The latest round of grants is awarded to MCR Pathways, Generation UK and Sister System, and brings CD&R's European TSP representation to six high-impact non-profit organizations.
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• Generation UK delivers employment skills bootcamps in partnership with employers focused on in-demand skills to people facing barriers (ages 8-25+).

• Although unicorns in different cultures have little to do with one another, they have multiple associations in European thought.
• In southern Africa, colonial European ideas encountered older indigenous beliefs about one-horned creatures.

Unicorns in Africa?

• In the age of natural science, unicorns were gradually dismissed as mythical rather than biological creatures.
• A famous search for such evidence was carried out by the English traveller, writer and politician Sir John Barrow (1764-1848).
• One of those rumours was that unicorns were depicted in the rock paintings made by the indigenous San (Bushman) inhabitants of the region.

Multiple rock art depictions

• I draw attention to additional examples of rock paintings of one-horned creatures (Figures 2 and 3).
• Collectively, these show that rock paintings of one-horned creatures can’t be dismissed as naturalistic profile views of two-horned creatures, one horn covering the other.

Rain-animals

• The evidence suggests that the “unicorns” in indigenous mythical beliefs and rock art are actually animal-like forms of rain, known as rain-animals.
• They were ritually captured and slaughtered by San rainmakers to cause rain to fall in specific places.
• After a few times she struggles to catch another one: unlike the others, this last creature is “a grown-up water”.
• We know what made it recognisably grown-up: unlike the others, it had a single horn that poked out of the water.

An intersection of beliefs

• In one of the recorded instances, indigenous people at the Cape saw the British royal coat of arms and commented on the unicorn in it.
• Indigenous beliefs help us to explain that the uncanny resemblance between European unicorns and South African “unicorns” was pure chance.
• The mixing of foreign beliefs with local ones in colonial South Africa has hidden the independent, indigenous creature.

• Financial literacy, which is almost never taught in schools, affects every aspect of our lives.
• However, very few kids and teens are exposed to this knowhow and brush it aside as “boring, grown-up stuff”.
• “Kids and teens today live, learn and play on their phones.
• Being parents to kids and teenagers themselves, the two realised the importance of financial literacy, and understood the huge gap and importance of smart money management.

• The functional food ingredients market consists of sales of functional food ingredients by entities (organizations, sole traders, and partnerships) that are bioactive compounds or ingredients used in manufacturing functional food products.
• The rise in demand for fortified food & beverage products is expected to contribute to the growth of the functional food ingredients market.
• Therefore, the rise in demand for fortified food & beverage products will drive the functional food ingredients market growth.
• Major companies operating in the functional food ingredients sector are focused on partnering or collaborating with other companies to develop innovative solutions for functional food ingredients.