Teach a Girl – Change the World.
Camfed (Campaign for Female Education) is an international, non-profit organisation focused on educating and empowering girls and young…
Category: children
Little by Little One Walks Far*
UNFPA is the United Nations agency that deals with providing much needed family planning and reproductive health services…
The Most Natural Thing In the World?
As the daughter of a nurse I had some vague idea of what a fistula might be (my…
A Proud Legacy
Yesterday an Irish journalist died. She was 54. Her name was Mary Raftery and while she didn’t live…
An Understanding Heart…
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with…
Finns Finish First
Schools in Finland have turned out to have some of the highest test scores in the world. How…
Out of the Mouths of Babes…
In January 2010, after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, a group of children aged between 8 and 23…
Peace on Earth – War Children
Emmanuel Jal was born in Southern Sudan c. 1980. By the time he was seven, his father had…
Did You Know…
Did you know that The Cat in the Hat was written in 1954 using the reading vocabulary of…
Why Does This Make Me Cry?
This video seems to make me cry – but in a good way! Enjoy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=related] +10