In Ethiopia’s Tigray region, a preschool teacher fills her rural classroom with playful learning materials, creatively teaching her students and giving them the best start in life to learn. “I still remember the paper birds she made to teach us about numbers,” recalls Milkawit Getnet, age 12, and now in Grade 7. “I still love… Read more →←
My name is Wadimo Joy. I have been a teacher in Uganda for 26 years. I believe assistive technology is a blessing to the growing minds of children with disabilities in Uganda today. In last year’s Primary School finals, one of my students with disabilities received a better score than all the other candidates. I know this success was… Read more →←
As a medical doctor with more than a decade of experience working on HIV and AIDS in Uganda, I’m not often surprised. Yet, on a recent mission to document the stories of women and children benefiting from advancements in testing and treating HIV, I was. I was humbled by the stories of women who faced outstanding hardships and yet… Read more →←
In Niger, it is not uncommon to hear that if a menstruating woman touches sowing seeds, the harvest will not be abundant; that a woman must not braid her sister during menstruation, otherwise she will induce hair loss; that menstruation is a woman’s business and a man must not talk about it — the numerous rumors about menstrual… Read more →←
When you sip your next green tea, you might stop for a minute to take in the aroma of the leaves, revel in the steamy warmth, perhaps appreciate the energising taste. Chances are you won’t be thinking about a small family in the hills of Rwanda. They are indeed related but not the way you might think. This is a story of parenting and… Read more →←
“We are children! We want peace! We want school! Let’s make peace among us!” Watching a group of children at Lumbwe primary school singing and dancing to peace slogans was amusing, only until I learned about the physical and emotional wounds each child in the group bore. “The girl singing in the middle of the circle was… Read more →←
Over 7,000 new Syrian refugees – nearly half of them children – have fled the conflict in northeastern Syria and arrived into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many of them are women, children and the elderly. Almost all of them walked long distances through the night, hoping to reach safety. They arrive in physical and mental distress.… Read more →←
The drive alongside lake Lanao is idyllic. Surrounded on one side by the lush greenery of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and on the other by the vast ocean-like expanse that forms the largest lake on the island. But the horror of what took place alongside the lake’s northern shores hits you when you enter the devastated… Read more →←
Emine El Ilevi (front) and her sister Zeynep, in the picture above, are Syrian refugees in the Turkish city of Adana. The sisters, their three siblings and her father Ahmed arrived in Turkey after a bomb landed in the middle of their living room, killing Emine’s pregnant mother and seriously injuring her. The eldest four children of… Read more →←
No, I’m not talking about “revenge body” with one of the Kardashian sisters or the fast-result fad diets popular these days. I’m talking about three children, babies, who range from eight to fourteen months old, with results that make me tear up. Let’s go back eight weeks. I went to Aweil town in northern South Sudan to… Read more →←
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