Sada e maan! Intekhab e maan!
Under the Taliban regimen, head of the UNICEF-Herat field office, Nuzhat Shahzadi, is set for one of the most dangerous tasks: to promote girls' education in Western Afghanistan. A visit to Haitifi girls' high school shows an unstoppable will to learn, despite the odds.
Read MoreIn November 2022, Len Morris traveled to Kenya for the first time since the pandemic, to check in with supported students of the Kenyan Schoolhouse program and assess the state of children in Kenya. This is what he found.
Read More19-year-old Susan lives in Mathare slum with her mom and three sisters and dreams of becoming a news anchor.
Read MoreWe know that each barrier placed in the path of a poor child robs us of a potential scientist, legal scholar, artist, musician, entrepreneur. We lose when they lose. We lose the potential each child has within them.
Read MoreIn a recent Congressional hearing on the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment, one side was debating children’s human rights. The other pursued a shell game involving border walls, drugs and invading hordes of zombies. Kidding.
Read MoreLen Morris remembers the experience of filming an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Read MoreFourteen-year-old Lesley Achieng, a new student at the Kenyan Schoolhouse program, recently wrote us a letter about her family circumstances and her excitement at being able to go to secondary school. While her adoptive family has been kind to take her in, she misses her siblings and her mom. “It is a fact that I am not a member of this family.”
Read MoreRecently, we had World Day Against Child Labor and unfortunately there’s little to celebrate.
Read MoreFive of our Kenyan Schoolhouse students excelled at the Kenyan national exams, and four of them have supported places at university. This is why we do this!
Read MoreAlliance 8.7 and the world community aim to end the recruitment and use of children in war by 2025. Here’s how they’re thinking it could work.
Read MoreAloys Opiyo Otieno touched thousands of lives…including mine.
Read MoreThe interests of children need to be central to policy and decision-making. A White House Office for Children and Youth would give children a seat at the table.
Read MoreThe Covid-19 pandemic threatens to undo twenty years of progress on child labor. But the world can set priorities and prevent that from happening.
Read MoreChildren often know and practice empathy intuitively… they know when something is amiss or just wrong.
Read MoreHouses of Joy in Costa Rica provide food security, child care and medical services for semi-nomadic indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé “trans-border migrant” families - a transformational alliance between governments, civil society and coffee farmers.
Read MoreThe pandemic has forced an economic reset. Perhaps we will take the opportunity to create a world without child labor.
Read More24-year-old lawyer Amar Lal has seen and felt the pain of child labor. Strictly speaking, child labor runs in the family. In 2021, the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, Amar tells the ILO and world leaders that more needs to be done to end child labor entirely.
Read MoreGarment production in India shut down abruptly as a result of Covid 19. Multinational companies who skipped out on their obligations to pay for work already ordered made matters much worse. The Indian government appealed for employers to “be kind” to their desperate employees. Unfortunately, kindness is discretionary.
Read MoreWhen I met Mariela Montez, age ten, she was working with her father picking onions for a penny a pound outside Eagle Pass, Texas.
She had the flu and could barely speak. She had risen at 4am and would work twelve hours…
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