Published Thu, Mar 06, 2025Written by Dana Kaltenberger In February, EduNations had the privilege of hosting Dawn Malcolm, director and CEO of Lighting The Path, at our schools in Sierra Leone. Dawn’s visit marked a significant step forward in a new partnership...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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. 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...