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WE NEED AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR WOMEN An Oxfam Paper
Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing...
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Great efforts to help the youth in Uganda
Great efforts to help the youth are coming out of compassionate hearts following the pandemic in Uganda. The pandemic caused a lot of changes in the lives of so many millions of people. In Uganda, they closed borders, schools and activities in an effective effort to...
Burkina Faso: nearly 2 million people displaced amid worst food crisis in a decade
Nearly one in ten people in Burkina Faso are displaced by conflict. Even more worrying, the rate of severe food insecurity has almost doubled compared to last year, with more than 600,000 people in a food emergency in this lean season, alert 28 international aid organizations. An urgent increase in funding for humanitarian assistance is needed to respond to the current situation which equals the severity of the emergency in Ukraine.
Meet the Billion Acts Heroes Who are Changing the World
The Billion Acts of Peace award winners who are working to better the world and making a difference for marginalized people, those in poverty, political issues and more.
Rural Women and the Millennium Development Goals to Alleviate Poverty and Hunger
Initiatives to Establish When Alleviating Poverty Successful economic empowerment - the kind that generates an income, builds self-worth and hope which improves the quality of life - requires understanding and commitment to the work. It includes new approaches to...
Aiding Women and Girls in Burkina Faso
Women and Girls in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked, Sub-Saharan country in West Africa. Of the 20 million people residing there, 50.3 percent are female. Women and girls in Burkina Faso are likely to suffer from sexual or violent assault, experience forced...
Ballwin resident receives global award for nonprofit work
Local Ballwin, Missouri resident receives the Global Hero Award for her humanitarian work empowering women westnewsmagazine.com/2016/06/17/68200/ballwin-resident-receives-global-award-for-nonprofit-work In 2011, after leaving a missionaries’ conference in Africa,...
When God Calls You, Trust that He will Equip You
The rain was beating against the window and as I squinted looking through I could see the trees bending in the storm and I wondered what damage may remain once the storm passed. It was Good Friday, 2012 and I was getting the last laundry and packing done for the...
Life in African villages. Even the youngest have work to do.
Life in African villages. Even the youngest have work to do. Western life is often far removed from what most of the rest of the world experiences. It is easy to think of other people's lives being similar to our own until we really see how they live. I would like...