From curdling milk to shark bites and rotten pickles – menstruating women are a menace to society… if you believe the myths. For hundreds of years, women and girls have been told ridiculous stories about the dangerous super powers they possess when they menstruate. But having a period is a very normal and healthy part of our… Read more →←
Topic: Impact
Being a mother is miraculous. But for me, being forced live far away from my children just to put bread on the table, has turned this blessing into a curse. Being a Syrian mother in this time of war is my life challenge – a reason to fight, survive and win. This is what I tell myself every morning before I head off to work. I think of… Read more →←
Monday 12 December is Universal Health Coverage day, an annual focus for the growing movement toward health coverage for all. In 2015, almost 6 million children died before reaching age five – more than 16,000 every single day. Around 300,000 women died due to complications of pregnancy and delivery in the same year. Most of these… Read more →←
Batula is a traditional birth attendant and has been working for the past 25 years. Because of her reputation and medical skills, many families take girls to her and ask let her to carry out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on them. FGM is a deep-rooted cultural practice in Somalia with virtually every Somali girl and woman (98 per cent)… Read more →←
What role do digital tools and technologies play in your daily life? Do you use them to plan your day? Catch up with friends? Get the latest news? Perhaps you are using them to make a difference in your life or the lives of others, to empower young people to speak out, to promote a kinder and more inclusive society, and to make the world… Read more →←
Including the Excluded: Education for children with disabilities For the past four years, I have worked with colleagues around the world on the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children – a partnership that examines the reasons children are excluded from education and seeks ways for every child to go to school and learn. Those of us… Read more →←
The Felipebol was created by many hands, so that all students can play together. I am a physical education teacher at a public school on the edge of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil – the Integrated Centre of Public Education (CIEP, in Portuguese) Padre Paulo Correia de Sá. The school is located at the Padre Miguel neighbourhood, a… Read more →←
When I landed in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I arrived exactly three months after an earthquake with magnitude 7.8 had struck the North-West of the country and left a trail of destruction. Esmeraldas, one of the most vulnerable provinces in Ecuador, was worst hit. I had come to Ecuador to train young trainers on… Read more →←
Last month, I traveled nearly 8,000 miles to Ninh Thuan Province, a rural region in Vietnam’s south central coast, and one of the most disadvantaged areas in the country. The stunning coastline of Ninh Thuan Province is a stark contrast to the barren, hard-to-reach hillsides and dilapidated wooden homes inland, where most people live,… Read more →←
The day Willinton Leyder Ortiz turned 10, armed men came to his village, took away his mother and killed her. Now, at 15, he often wonders why humans are so violent. Leyder is an Awá, an indigenous community living in the jungle and villages of Nariño, in western Colombia on the border with Ecuador. The Awás have traditionally lived… Read more →←
