Empowering girls to break gender stereotypes
A whistle sounds and a group of young girls begin their warm-up, running around a small field outside the local school in a village in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region. They are gearing up to play…
Job training sparks new opportunities in Kenya
Our Youth Vocational Skills project in Kiambu County connects at-risk youth to job training programs that will give them a practical means of earning an income for life.
A frightening account of giving birth in a remote village
It was around midnight when Judite began feeling a pain that she had never felt before. The mother of six was heavily pregnant with her youngest child Marcelo, but this feeling was different to…
How a young man’s search for a better life led to a decade of exploitation
By the time Norng Samen’s son returned to Cambodia after a harrowing 10-year journey abroad he was so unrecognisable that she had to check his scars to make sure it was really him.