Commuting to school by horse Imagine growing up in a rural area of Honduras. Your only hope of escaping extreme poverty is through education, yet you may not live close enough...
Working in developing countries is a learning experience… The streets close to the center of Xela, where I stay at the home of a woman called Judith, remind me of Inca...
A Project in the Peruvian Andes has been added to Global Pearls. The Quechua families living high in the Peruvian Andes are very industrious, but poor. They live simple lives,...
I flew into Douala, Cameroon on Sunday night, Feb 5, 2017 just in time to catch the final match of the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament. Cameroon was playing...
A Good Problem To Have A nutritious lunch is now provided each day at the Matunget Preschool. We knew this would increase the desired enrollment in the school, but we weren’t...
In 2016 we implemented a pilot project to see if older girls in the scholarship program could earn money towards their high school tuition. High school costs are considerably higher...
World Pulse is an online magazine that gives voice to emerging women leaders around the world. Women write articles on topics affecting their communities in order to mobilize...
Because They Sent Me Back To School. When I discovered I was pregnant, my world came crashing down. I thought of how my classmates would look at me upon finding out....
Hope, as Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn so articulately explain in “A Path Appears,” is a very powerful force in breaking the cycle of poverty. One of the reasons a...