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What delays child marriage? Empowering Girls in Rural Bangladesh
Girls who marry before the age of 18 tend to face greater difficulties in life than girls who delay marriage—they are more likely to…
Charity Stories
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Dedicating This Mother’s Day to 1,000 Moms in Madagascar
By: Kate Grant, CEO Fistula Foundation I remember what it felt like when my son was born. After 24 hours of labor, nearly four hours…
How I Became A Community Healthcare Nurse with Possible
By Aasha Bhatta I was twenty-two, a year out of nursing school, when a woman named Dhana came in the private hospital, barely alive. We rushed…
A Cote d’Ivoire teacher sees improved attendance from SCI deworming
Kenise Klah Keino’s story Schistosomiasis is a type of parasitic worm infection that is carried by freshwater snails and is estimated to affect over 200…
How do you accountibly register millions of people for malaria nets?
By Rob Mather, Against Malaria Foundation CEO With World Malaria Day coming up on April 25th, AMF is pleased to report that we continue to…
How Can a Window Sticker Save Lives?
It’s hard to believe that something as simple—and cheap—as a sticker can save lives. But Zusha! has proven that it can. See the Zusha! team…
Nigerian women embrace family planning ahead of population boom
Lagos (AFP) Modupe Adegbite’s grandfather had 22 children, while her father had nine. At the age of just 19, she has decided she wants no more…
Project Healthy Children’s Innovative Dosifier Earns Multiple Awards
At Sanku-Project Healthy Children, we address malnutrition in rural and remote areas of East Africa. These populations subsist on staples with low nutritive value and do not normally…
Working to provide women equal access to eye care
With International Women’s Day coming up on March 8, this is a good time to reflect on the advances we’ve seen over the last 20 years…
Innovative Partnership between Living Goods and Kenya’s Isiolo County Government to Transform Access to and Quality of Community Health Care
By Jennifer Hyman, Director of Communications, Living Goods Living Goods and Kenya’s Isiolo County government have just signed a four-year partnership that will vastly expand the access…
Founders Pledge Endorses Village Enterprise as a Top Charity for Women’s Empowerment
By Lucy Valentine Wurtz, Director of Development and Communications, Village Enterprise Founders Pledge, a charity through which company founders and investors commit to donating a percentage of their…
Dancing Queen: Visit to Fistula Survivor Padma Thapa in Dahachur, Nepal
By: Lindsey Pollaczek, VP of Programs at Fistula Foundation “My mother gave me a second life, and so now, I just have to dance!” Padma Thapa,…