Jamila started M-Farm, a female-led company that connects farmers to markets and each other, giving them price information over their mobile phones and the ability to organize—that way, they can move from subsistence agriculture to commercial farming!
Girls and Women
International Women's Day may have come and gone, but we celebrate women on a global scale every day here at ONE!
By Katie G. Nelson
If you trek far enough into Kibera—through the maze of scrap-metal houses connected by webs of live wires running roof to roof, and down a slippery hill toward a peeling blue iron door that towers so high you can’t see the sky above—you might just catch a glimmer of hope inside the largest slum in Kenya.
Her name is Anne Wambui and she’s the headmaster of Anwa Junior Academy.
Headmaster Anne Wambui at Anwa Junior Academy in Kibera,...
In celebration of World Book Day (and in anticipation of International Women’s Day), here are some female African authors, some whose work holds a revered place in African literature, and others who are at the advent of their literary careers.
There are some pretty good, legitimate reasons for not doing your school work in certain parts of the world. Take a look at some of the reasons why girls in sub-Saharan Africa aren’t keeping up in school.
Without water, a family cannot drink, prepare food, or clean. The burden to collect this water is disproportionately placed on the female family members of a household and is prioritized over education.
Education is a big deal for everyone. However, access to education is still a problem for millions around the world, especially girls. A lot of things stand in the way between a girl and a classroom.
Girls often face barriers to achieving their dreams, but the supportive environment at the Peace Corps' Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp in southern Ghana helped them talk about the difficulties—and their goals!
Today alone, women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa will waste 21 million hours fetching water for their families. However, when a clean water access point comes to a community, those women are given the most wonderful gift–the gift of time.
As more Africans move out of poverty, job creation is the necessary next step and having bright young women at the helm providing employment is a way of directly addressing and eradicating the adverse effects poverty has on women!