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Blog: Blog Archive
Keeping Population Growth in Check: How a High School Education Changes Everything
May 4th, 2012The benefits of educating a girl in Africa are many—learning to read, write, and do simple math in primary (elementary) school are the first steps to better health, future employment, [...]
International Women’s Day 2012: Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures
March 8th, 2012March 8 marks International Women’s Day, when the world recognizes the achievements of women and the progress that still needs to be made. This year’s theme is Connecting Girls, Inspiring [...]
Jumpstarting Africa’s Small Businesses
February 29th, 2012In 2009, the proportion of people in Sub Saharan Africa living on less than $1.25 a day was just below 50 percent – the highest of any region in the [...]
Turning the Millennium Development Goals Into Reality: Part 2
June 8th, 2011In the second blog post in our series about the UN’s Millennium Development Goals we focus on Millennium Goal 2: Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere are able to complete [...]
Zeroing in on Farming in Africa as a Key to Long-Term Development
June 1st, 2011At a recent meeting of the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, Bill Gates spoke of a new effort to help the farmers of Africa and South Asia build better lives [...]
Remembering Less Fortunate Mothers
May 6th, 2011Being a mother is never easy, but in Africa it takes on a whole new dimension. Save the Children’s new report on the best and worst countries for motherhood says [...]
Great Ape Trust Recognized for its Research Efforts with Bonobos and Chimpanzees
April 29th, 2011Aid for Africa member Great Ape Trust has two reasons to celebrate. In Iowa, the Trust’s Sue Savage-Rumbaugh was named one of the TIME 100 for 2011 for her work [...]
Focus on Women: Realizing a Girl’s Potential and Fulfilling her Aspirations through Education
March 30th, 2011When Ann Musabe was 16 years old she was in high school in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and in need of support. She found that support through Aid for [...]
Focus on Women: Changing a Young Woman’s Story through Education
March 18th, 2011Caroline Kashinin Senteu is one of only a handful of Maasai women in Kenya with a college education, and although her story began as the story of most Maasai women, [...]
Focus on Women: Ugandan Finds Calling as a “Gorilla Doctor”
March 11th, 2011Aid for Africa member Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP) has a new veterinarian–Dr. Racheal Mbabazi. Racheal graduated from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in 2010 with a degree in veterinary [...]