Using Education to Combat Dangerous Child Labor and Human Trafficking. Worldwide, over 121 million children do not attend school. Many kids are not in school because they work, a growing number in dangerous conditions in carpet factories, in other people's homes as domestics, or as forced or slave laborers. More and more kids and teens are also sexually exploited and increasingly vulnerable to human trafficking. World Education programs use education to combat dangerous child labor and human trafficking in India, Cambodia, Nepal, Benin, and Laos.

Meet Chhiv Ya, Seema Lama, and Vijaya Laxshmi, who are building futures beyond those of child laborers through the power of education.

At 14, Vijaya Laxshmi is a confident, strong girl who is a leader at Kuchinerla School in a small village in rural India. Just two years ago, she spent 10 hours per day, earning 30 cents, working in the cotton seed industry with dangerous pesticides that made her sick. Read more

Chhiv Ya is a bright 15 year-old girl going to school in the OPTIONS Program in Cambodia. "I want every girl to know about trafficking and that it can happen here, even in our little village. Now that I'm in school, I have so much support from my classmates and I am learning so many things." Read more

Using Education to combat HIV and AIDS among Cambodia's Youth. World Education, in partnership with HealthNet/International, is launching several innovative programs to reduce the HIV infection and transmission rates among Cambodia's young people. Community members and clinicians will help develop the programs that reach youth—both in- and out-of-school. Read more

Nuns, Keys, and Writing Themes: Improving Critical Writing Skills in Adults and Teachers across New England. A long wooden table sits in the small conference room of a converted Catholic girls' school where a group of adults is writing intently in spiral bound notebooks. The group is diverse and lively: six or seven nuns who have worked together for over 20 years, a half dozen 20-something Americorps volunteers from across the country, and a number of adult immigrants and refugees whose first language is not English. Each is holding an old skeleton key, a catalyst for writing about a memory that they will read aloud and later revise. Read More

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