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Feature Stories
Read World Education feature stories
from our projects in the following
regions/countries:
 Benin:
Batonga Girls' Education
Program
"I really like school
and now I have what I
need with the Batonga
program. I am so happy
and know that if I work
hard, my life can change.
I really like math and
science. Our mentor helps
us with our studies,
which is good because
sometimes it's hard!…"
 Benin:
Bringing Communities
Together to Support Children
The residents of Nikki village in northeast
Benin face many problems. The community has
experienced an increased number of undesired
and at-risk pregnancies, medical complications
from abortions, rising divorce rates, poor
student grades, and emerging complaints from
parents about their children's behavior…
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more stories from
Benin…
 BurkinaFaso: Tin Tua (The Bike Race)
As the bicycle parade pedaled past, onlookers stopped to stare, their eyes temporarily fixed on the parade of cheerful children whizzing past them. "Where are you going?" they called out in wonder. "We are going to take our CEP exams!"
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more stories from
Egypt…
 Indonesia:
Learning, Growing,
and Learning to Grow
"I used to hang around
on the streets, getting
a little money by singing
and performing for people.
I was lazy. This place,
the Learning Farm, has
changed my life," says
Dedi Sudhandi, a 22-year
old resident at the Learning
Farm…
 Sierra
Leone:
A Mentor With
Many Roles: Suzie
Jajua
Troubled by the low literacy
rates and early sexuality
of girls in Segwembe,
Sierra Leone, Suzie Jajua
was determined to make
a difference. A respected
teacher with many years
of experience, Suzie
was the first community
member to volunteer her
services as a mentor
through the USAID-funded
Ambassadors' Girls Scholarship
Program…
 Swaziland:
School Nurse Gives
Life-Changing Support
to Orphans
Cebsile Msane is a visiting
school nurse for the
Bantwana Schools Integrated
Program (BSIP). Through
the program she travels
among 10 schools, diagnosing
and treating hundreds
of kids with flu, cholera,
malaria, and scabies,
among other illnesses…
 Uganda:
Opening Homes and
Hearts
Euleria Kamya recalls
the day she went to Mityana
Kolping House to receive
two young children, the
five-year old boys who
were to be new members
of her family…
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more stories from
United States…
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Africa:
Educating and Inspiring
Girls in Africa
Cambodia:
Influencing Parenting
Behavior through Peep and the
Big Wide World
Cambodia:
Star Scholar Urges Classmates to Stay in School
Egypt:
Changing Attitudes Means More Girls in School
Egypt:
From Literacy Classes
to Learning Carnivals
Ghana:
Engaging Cocoa Growers through Text Messaging
Ghana:
Helping Girls
in Need Gain
an Education
Guinea:
On the Frontlines
of Girls' Education
Guinea:
Responding to the
Threat of HIV and
AIDS—An Individual's
Initiative to Reach
out to Guinean Youth
India:
Helping Girls Protect
Themselves in India
India:
Using Knowledge Learned
to Save Others—Bharati's
story
Laos:
Helping Children
Orphaned and
Injured from
UXO
Liberia:
Meeting Girls' Educational
Needs
Mali:
Adventure Travelers
Are Compelled
to Support Girls'
Education
Mali:
Helping Girls
Stay in School
Nepal:
A New Life for
Street Children
Nepal:
Building a Better
Life through
Education and
Agriculture
Pakistan:
Literacy Liberates!
World Education's
Family Reading Program
for Women in Rural
Pakistan
Pakistan:
The Power of Family
Literacy in Rural
Pakistan
Senegal:
Reducing Women's
Vulnerability
to HIV through
Small Loans
Senegal:
Strengthening Local Media and Empowering Women Journalists and
Leaders
Sierra Leone: Catching Up With Adamsay, AGSP Scholarship Recipient
Southern
Africa: Raising
Children Orphaned
by AIDS: Learning
from the Frontline
Experts
Thailand:
Border Schools on
the Edge of Closure
Thailand:
Providing Special
Education to Burmese
Refugees
Uganda:
Africans Helping
Africans to Live
With and Learn About
HIV and AIDS
United
States:
Dropping
Back In with
Help from
Citizens
Bank and
World Education
United
States:
More than Language
Zimbabwe:
From Hardship to Hope—School Supplies for Zimbabwe's Vulnerable Children
Zimbabwe:
Using Soccer to Fight HIV