March 3, 2016
Categories: Africa, NGOs, Recipients
Tags: africa, farming, girls, solar, strategies
https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?320904-4/usafrica-leaders-summit-spousal-program-part-6 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Spousal Program, Part 6 Panelists discussed empowering African women and girls to participate in economic growth and promoting healthy lives through technology and job training. An African agriculture scientist focused on how women and girls wee crucial to tackling the issue of food insecurity. Then speakers detailed their companies’ development projects. […]
March 3, 2016
Categories: Restavek
Tags: law, Restavek, trafficking
The Restavek practice originally involved the transfer of the child from one family to another. However, the restavèk system is more accurately characterized as trafficking and now often involves middlemen recruiters, or koutchye, who are paid to find a restavèk for host families. This system of trafficking often results in the complete loss of contact […]
March 3, 2016
Categories: Leadership, Strategies
Tags: Malala
HER DAY: Malala Yousafzai, an education activist shot by the Taliban, speaks at the UN yesterday. UNITED NATIONS — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, celebrated her 16th birthday yesterday by demanding in her first public speech since the attack that world leaders provide free compulsory schooling […]
March 1, 2016
Categories: Restavek
For the most part, restavèk are found in middle to lower middle class homes, as well as the poorest slums of Port-au-Prince. The lack of local water infrastructure and overall lack of public services such as electricity in poor neighborhoods creates high demand for domestic workers to fetch water each day, and provide other […]