Nike Foundation and Save the Children Team Up to Empower Adolescent Girls

Nike Foundation and Save the Children Team Up to Empower Adolescent Girls
The Nike Foundation and Save the Children have embarked on a partnership aimed at empowering adolescent girls in Bangladesh and Malawi. The Nike Foundation recently awarded Save the Children a three-year $1.58 million grant.

Bangladesh and Malawi are two of the most impoverished countries in the world. Poverty in both countries is exacerbated by chronic food insecurity in several regions of each country. Malawi also suffers from a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS, which has progressively eroded the lives and livelihoods of the rural poor. Some of the most pressing issues that affect women, and adolescent girls in particular, in Bangladesh and Malawi are early marriage; pregnancy; and physical and sexual violence. Additionally, inadequate and insufficient health and education services and economic opportunities prevent adolescent girls from thriving and contributing to society.

In partnership with the Nike Foundation, Save the Children plans to empower adolescent girls ages 10-19 through improved skills and access to quality education, health and financial services so that they are valued in their communities and have a stronger sense of their abilities and rights. In the long run, it is anticipated that this will result in a reduction in household poverty. The program, entitled Strengthening Girls’ Voices, will be integrated with ongoing food security programs in Bangladesh and Malawi funded by the U.S. government.

BHUBANESWAR – A man in Orissa’s Bhadrak district has been arrested for allegedly raping his daughter for over a decade and forcing her to undergo seve

BHUBANESWAR – A man in Orissa’s Bhadrak district has been arrested for allegedly raping his daughter for over a decade and forcing her to undergo several abortions over the years, police said Monday.

Bishnumohan Panda, a 58-year-old resident of Rajgurupur village, was arrested after his daughter complained to the police Saturday with the help of villagers, said Damodar Mohapatra, in charge of the police station in the village. The 32-year-old victim, who is now married and has two children, alleged that her father first sexually exploited her when she was studying in Class 9 and continued to do so for years, threatening her with dire consequences if she complained to anyone.

“Though my father later married me off to a poor man, he wanted my husband and me to stay at his home so that he could exploit me further,” the victims said in her complaint. “She also alleged that she was forced to undergo many abortions by her father in the past,” Mohapatra told IANS.

Billy. This is so incredibly lovely, both the pictures and the words. I just read the book “The Help” and I am reminded of what was to me, the saddest

Billy. This is so incredibly lovely, both the pictures and the words. I just read the book “The Help” and I am reminded of what was to me, the saddest thing in the book. It was when one of the black maids who is telling her story is talking about all the many white children she took care of. The intense love the children all had for her (and she for them) was innocent of any anything but the purity of that emotion. And then there was the moment she always dreaded when the children would be made aware of race, and the love, while still there, changed. By the way, the book is flawed but worth the read for anyone who even vaguely remembers those horrible days.

I especially love the picture of the beautiful girls in their beautiful dresses. The one looking over her shoulder and back to you is a heartbreaker.

This is why I teach Kindergarten. The joy, humor, wonder my students feel is contagious. They are amazed at everything they are learning about the wor

This is why I teach Kindergarten. The joy, humor, wonder my students feel is contagious. They are amazed at everything they are learning about the world. They are so accepting of differences then too. It makes me sad when I see these same students in 5th grade as they are getting ready to leave our school. A lot a them have had a complete change of attitude. They are jaded, angry, intoleratant. What happens? If only we could hang on to the joy and innocence of childhood for a little longer.

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I document the ravages of illness, hunger and poverty, creating the stark images afforded those issues. But there are always children, and in the midst of oppressive forces the children are undaunted. Their spirit lifts them, and in turn me, above the tumult that surrounds us.
children, unfettered by the politic of adulthood, making the same discoveries of wonder and amazement and offering up their dreams in a smile. Illness and sadness also affect them, but lacking guile and intrigue they live without irony, expecting the best of the world.

Somewhere along the line it changes: Cultural demands intrude and

There is only one child in the world

There is only one child in the world
and the child’s name is All Children.
—Carl Sandburg




Standing on the side of the road to Jericho a small child with his camel waits for tourists to stop and give him a few coins for a ride. In other parts of the world the camel is gone and a lemonade stand takes its place.

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