Education
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Community Champion: How Kenya’s Florence Kamaitha Is Keeping Girls In School One-Pad-At-A-Time
Oct 13, 2014In Kenya, at least 2.5 million adolescent girls miss 3 to 5 days of classes monthly because they do not have access to affordable sanitary pads. While some of them miss classes during their monthly cycle,... -
International Day Of The Girl-Child: Empowering Adolescent Girls And Ending The Cycle Of Violence
Oct 11, 2014BY Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka On this International Day of the Girl Child let us commit to creating a world where girls can live free of violence and achieve their full potential. Violence against girls, in all its forms,... -
Nigerian Female Leaders Call For Improved Access To Education For Girls
Oct 11, 2014By Jennifer Ehidiamen As the world marks international day of the girl child, Nigerian female leaders have called for an increase in efforts to ensure barriers hindering girls from achieving their full potential are removed. Education... -
Are Bad Leaders Worse Than Ebola?
Oct 10, 2014Youth leaders at the grassroots have started mobilizing their peers to vote for credible leaders in the upcoming 2015 elections. This is clearly not about the elections alone, but to ensure that the Nigerian youths are... -
A Message To All Girls: How To Remove Constraints To Personal Growth
Oct 10, 2014Whatever you want to be, you can be. It might sound like a cliché but it is real… I am motivated to believe that I can change the world… Each time I try to remember when... -
Community Champion: Christabel Ofori’s IHAV Empowers Young People In Ghana To Envision Change And Act On It
Oct 2, 2014Christabel Ofori is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur who has a knack helping young people achieve their dreams. A graduate of Chemical Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 26 years old Christabel is the... -
Speak Out: A Ray Of Hope For Unemployed Youths In Nigeria
Sep 21, 2014Some Nigerians were asked, “How can Nigerian graduates tackle the challenge of unemployment?” Their responses: Nigerian graduates should learn how to write a good CV. “We should pay closer attention to the curriculum vitae of applicants.... -
Slum2School: Building An Education Revolution In Africa’s Slum
Sep 15, 2014Can young people in Africa address the basic educational needs of the continent’s fast growing population despite the limitations posed by inadequate socio-political and economic reforms? In Nigeria, Slum2School is helping Nigeria’s 10 million out-of-school children... -
Helping Under-served Community Access The Internet Without Barrier
Sep 1, 2014The community benefiting from Project Hello World has no doubt improved the lives of its members. The testimonial recorded is a huge success to the founders and while many would have doubted the relevance of the... -
From Aid To Empowerment: How “Project Hello World” Is Closing The Digital Divide In Nigeria
Aug 28, 2014Rural development remains a concern of many developing countries despite impressive advances in technology and increase in intensive developmental policies. Sustainable development and poverty alleviation in rural areas depend on effective common resources management and local...