Africa’s New Agents of Progress in Female Health: Traditional Male Chiefs
Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation, practices that are common and yet dangerous.
From Tina Rosenberg / New York Times: Though poverty rates are dropping worldwide, the ‘ultrapoor’ tend to stay where they are. BRAC works to break the poverty cycle by donating money-making assets mixed with cash and food grants. One example is Fundación Capital, an organization based in Bogotá, Colombia. In several Latin American countries, they participants cash instead of an animal or stock of goods.
Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation, practices that are common and yet dangerous.
Media Done Responsibly is helping young people understand the media they consume, including the harm of disinformation and stigmatizing narratives
Building on the widespread use of mobile phones in Kenya, Angaza has developed applications to provide people with financial services.
World Health Partners provides access to healthcare, education, and other services to fill the healthcare gap in low-resource communities in
Conexsus provides financial, technical, and mentorship support to cooperatives and small producers in the Amazon rainforest with the goal of
Physical illnesses trigger and exacerbate poverty because costs are too high to treat them. The Associação Saúde Criança (now known
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