Stories: Youth
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Time to Leave Honduras? For Many Youths, the Answer Is Easy
Juan Ángel Pineda was almost 16 years old when his father finally agreed: It was time for him to leave Honduras. “The gangs hadn’t come looking for me. Originally, I went looking for them,” says the now 17-year-old with spiked hair and a small scar between his eyebrows. He dropped out of school after 6th ...;
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Math-Based Adventures Animate Innovative African TV Show
Watch out, Dora. This winter, Tanzania expects to launch its own educational cartoon television show. Purported to be the first animated series to teach math in East Africa and the first cartoon for kids in the country, its aim is to boost children’s math skills. The show, entitled “Bunga Bongo,” traces the adventures of three kids...
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Tour This Tech Innovation Hub in the Middle of Africa
In early 2011, Google team members visited the University of Zambia to encourage students to participate in the Africa Android Competition. When one student asked the Google presenters what Android was — and only three people in the room knew the answer — a light bulb went off in Simunza Muyangana's head. "I remember leaving there thinking, 'Wow, how do...
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Zambia: A Soap Opera That’s Changing Lives
If there’s such a thing as a soap opera with a social good mission, then Zambia’s popular television drama Love Games is it. Airing every week on ZNBC, the soap is designed to get the country talking about the risky behaviors that contribute to the nation’s steep HIV/AIDS rates. A landlocked country...
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Love Games Try to Help Raise Awareness of HIV in Zambia
At the Munali Secondary School in Lusaka, an unusual youth club is under way. All eyes are on Humphrey Chileshe, a facilitator who uses sign language to lead an open and frank discussion on topics that are usually taboo here in Zambia, such as promiscuity, abuse, HIV and contraception. For the young people in the group, most of whom...
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Young Zambian Women and Their Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Africa, I’m sure you know, is an expansive continent, but did you know it is filled with 1.3 billion youths between the ages of 15 – 24? Experts have called the growing number of youths in Africa the “youth bulge” and everyone from multinational companies to governments are taking notice. Many positive stories are emerging from the continent...
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Love Games and Safe Love Clubs
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Out of the Mouth of Babes: What Nigeria Should be Doing About Honesty and Accountability
I had the privilege of attending a symposium contest held for public secondary schools here in Nasarawa state on Thursday. And as always, I was pumped to watch and hear young Nigerians speak on the future they would like to see. The actual theme of the contest was "value and ethics re-orientation in Nigeria." About 30 schools were invited by...
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Speaking Out For Justice in Haiti: Evel Fanfan
Evel Fanfan is a Haitian human rights lawyer and activist. He is the co-founder of AUMOHD [Association des Universitaires Motivés pour une Haiti de Droits) or Action for Human Rights in Haiti founded in 2002. Despite constant intimidation, Fanfan continues to speak out against worker exploitation and human rights abuses of the poor and...
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Mark Kaigwa Named Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Young Africa Entrepreneurs
Mark Kaiga, a creative director, filmmaker, digital marketer and entrepreneur, has been named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 Best Young African Entrepreneurs. Kaigwa is currently reporting on child survival in India on an IRP trip. Kaigwa comments, "It's truly an honor to be included in such a prestigious list alongside such accomplished entrepreneurs. I've been incredibly fortunate to stand...