Girls are COVID-19 Victims in Developing Countries
COVID-19 frontline victims in developing countries are girls who are losing their hard-earned schooling and rights.
Amidst COVID-19 Armenia’s Public Schools Enjoy Uninterrupted Learning
With a continued rise of confirmed COVID-19 cases, 113 countries have closed educational institutions impacting 849.4 million students (UNESCO). In the Republic of Armenia, (population: 3 million) however, public-school students’ learning remains uninterrupted, thanks to an EdTech platform called DASARAN. With Armenia on emergency shutdown until April 14th, DASARAN’s newly launched distance learning feature allows public-school teachers to administer online lessons and quizzes....
TaLI Advocates Education for Zimbabwe’s Children
When the Zimbabwean non-profit, Tag a Life International Trust (TaLI) launched ‘Every Child in School’ campaign in 2017, over 270 Zimbabwean non-profits and NGOs signed on. The campaign pushed the Zimbabwean government to provide access to state-funded basic education for all children in Zimbabwe. Since 2010, TaLI has empowered girls and women’s rights in the landlocked Southern African nation where 1 in 4 women experience sexual violence by age of 15. Either impregnated, or unable to...
Brands’ Biggest Threat: America’s Working Class Walks the Tightrope
In their latest book, Tightrope–Americans Reaching for Hope, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn sound off the alarm on rural America’s disappearing working-class. The “miasma” of unemployment, failed government policies and the disappearing American dream is “slowly killing” rural America’s working class with widespread addiction, imprisonment, suicide, and early deaths. The journey begins at Yamhill, Oregon, where we meet the ghosts of Kristoff’s childhood...
Reversing Climate Change With a Feminine Response
TreeSisters’ reforestation campaigns of our precious tropical forests focuses on a feminine response to climate change.