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Posted on May 1, 2018
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… Dignity for girls in Malawi The Ulemu Project aims to reverse the very high dropout rate of girls from education at early age in Malawi. Ulemu, in the Chichewa language means dignity. The Ulemu project is about dignity for girls in Malawi. A staggering 50% of girls in Malawi are married and /…
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Posted on April 27, 2018
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Like most children, Shalom Mirembe didn’t enjoy homework; thought school holidays were too short and missed her family when she was away at boarding school. But unlike most children, Shalom considered school a rare opportunity to learn and develop – and not to be taken for granted. As such, her story reminds us of the…
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Posted on April 20, 2018
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… Serving at the grassroots Malawi is a beautiful country and home to a friendly and vibrant people, but it is also one of the poorest nations with among the highest rates of AIDS orphans in Africa. In 2007, ACT started working in partnership with Good News Bible Church (GNBC), a grassroots community-based church…
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Posted on April 13, 2018
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The UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 sets out to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning. This goal fits in with the primary objective of ACT to alleviate poverty by providing disadvantaged African children and orphans with the opportunity of education that will give them know how and provide access to…
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Posted on April 6, 2018
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Hello everyone! My name is Ruby Purvis and I recently joined the African Child Trust (ACT) as their communications and marketing intern. Some background I graduated last year with a degree from King’s College London in English Literature with Film. Over the course of my degree, I gravitated towards modules that dealt with themes such…
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Posted on March 29, 2018
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On the 3rd March ACT teamed up with Miss Ebony Ali, winner of the 2017 Miss E.B.O.N.Y Pageant, to conduct a series of skills workshops and activity days with communities in Nigeria. ACT has been supporting partners in Nigeria since 2000 however our work has been focused in the Ayobo-Ipaja community area, north east of…