Julia Bolz and Ayni Education International

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Hadia, age 11                   Out-of-School Girls Program, Kabul, Afghanistan By 2000, UNICEF reported that only 4 to 5% of Afghan children were being educated at the primary school level. Fewer still had access to secondary and university-level education. According to the World Bank, “Since 2002, more than 6 million students and teachers have returned to school.”  The… Read more »

Women, AIDS, and Children’s Disabling Burns

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In sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people living with HIV are women. Young women (15–24 years) are three to six times more likely to be infected than men in the same age group.* Unfortunately, 800,000 Zambian children have lost one or both parents to AIDS, and others are left to care for themselves because their… Read more »