In Rwanda, a land with an oral history as rich and beautiful as the hills that roll across it, one tale is special. The story “Old Woman and a Hyena” was written by an 11-year-old boy who won a USAID-supported national writing competition.
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FrontLines: Foreign Aid Impact in U.S. and Abroad
The Urgency of Education in South Sudan
Disruptive Innovations Bringing Nepal Closer to Ending Extreme Poverty
From antiseptic interventions for newborn babies to creative, community-based approaches to countering human trafficking, USAID/Nepal is using several innovative programs to cut extreme poverty. Learning from and scaling these types of interventions globally will be the key to meeting the next set of sustainable development goals post-2015 and ending extreme poverty worldwide.
Teaching Tolerance: A Lesson for Kosovo’s Educators in LGBT Awareness
A Thank You to our Partners in Literacy
The Power of the Classroom
If You ‘Let Girls Learn,’ You Save Lives Too
How does giving girls a proper education impact their health and well-being? Education is essential to fight poverty and all its corollaries: hunger, disease, resource degradation, exploitation and despair. In low-income countries, mothers who have completed primary school are more likely to seek appropriate health care for their children. A child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of 5.
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Partnering to Make Merit-Based College Admissions the Norm in Ukraine
Prior to 2008, if you were to have asked typical Ukrainian high school students, university applicants or their parents to honestly explain the surest way to gain entrance to university, most would have responded that informal payments and influence-seeking provided the golden keys to admission. This type of process benefited not the brightest and most […]
