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Tailor Made for Success
June 10, 2019
When John Ayivor of Kansakrom, Ghana, left junior high school, the last year of compulsory education in his country, his future looked bleak. As the eighth of 11 children born to poor cocoa farmers, Ayivor knew he would not be able to go to secondary school. He hoped to become a mason, but he had […]
Tuning in to Rural Communities with Radio in Zambia
February 12, 2019
Shortly after midnight on August 1, 1981, MTV broadcast its first music video, the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.” The choice of the song was a statement of purpose – television is ascendant, radio’s old news – in the same way the internet and social media later brashly elbowed their way into public consciousness. […]
From Farm to School
June 14, 2018
This is the fifth story in our series of World Day Against Child Labor articles. It was originally published in March 2017. Like many young people in the Lilongwe district of Malawi, 15-year-old Mkasauka Laitani is the child of smallholder farmers. And like many, her education suffered in the wake of economic difficulty. School is […]
Aditi’s Rescue
January 8, 2018
Over a half million Bangladeshis are thought to live in modern-day slavery. One of them was Aditi, who was trafficked when she was 19. It could have been the end of her story. Instead, it was the beginning. USAID’s Bangladesh Counter Trafficking-in-Persons project gave her the support she needed to make a new life for […]
Letter from Sumba
November 9, 2017
Illustration by Jessica Kelley; Story and Photographs By Anne Cassidy To reach Kataka School, you drive east along the coast from Waingapu, then head south into the rugged hills of Sumba, Indonesia. Flashes of silvery ocean appear outside the car windows, and, deeper inland, a herd of wild horses. As you near the school you […]
One Man’s Fight for Girls’ Education
July 7, 2017
South Sudan gained independence on July 9, 2011, but the nation still struggles. More than 3.5 million people have been displaced, 5.5 million are severely food insecure and more than 1 million are acutely malnourished, according to the U.N.’s May 2017 Development Report. In honor of the world’s newest nation, we revisit a project that […]
Liberia rallies the fight against child labor
April 20, 2017
Winrock’s communications officer for the ARCH project, Victor Z. Davis, produced this short film about Jerry’s journey from rubber tapper to prosperous pork producer. The video features photos by award-winning photographer, Paolo Patrizi. At the National Sustainability Conference on Child Labor in Monrovia, Liberia, children chat and laugh as they look at photos on the wall. […]
From Farm to School
March 1, 2017
Like many young people in the Lilongwe district of Malawi, 15-year-old Mkasauka Laitani is the child of smallholder farmers. And like many, her education suffered in the wake of economic difficulty. School is expensive, with money needed for uniforms and fees, and when the family struggled, she and her siblings left the classroom for the […]
Valentine’s in Bloom
February 14, 2017
It’s no secret that kids and vegetables don’t always get along. Just don’t tell that to the students at Municipal Elementary School São Valentim — Saint Valentine’s School — located in Linha Campestre, a poor rural community in southern Brazil. In April 2014, the Achieving Reduction of Child Labor in Support of Education (ARISE) program, […]
Winrock to Implement Landmark Asia Counter Trafficking Effort
January 11, 2017
WASHINGTON – January 11, 2017 – Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new regional program to combat human trafficking in Asia. USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia awarded the five-year, $21.5 million USAID Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons (USAID Asia CTIP) program to Winrock International, a U.S.-based development organization. “This new […]