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Posted on March 13, 2017
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By Jack Beadle Pre-trip Thoughts I’ve been volunteering for the African Child Trust for close to 18-months. Helping to build the website, post the blog articles and manage the social media has been a very rewarding experience – but managing everything from the UK left me eager to see more about the impact of ACT…
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Posted on March 8, 2017
Comments Off on ACT Celebrates International Women’s Day 2017
… Widowhood in Rural Africa Though we have come so far in achieving gender parity, gender inequality remains pervasive, with damaging cultural traditions and customs at the heart of the issue. Unjust practices against women are embedded in history and the perpetration of damaging cultural practices reinforces male-dominated power structures across the world. Some of…
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Posted on March 3, 2017
Comments Off on Is There Hope Amid Nigeria’s Economic Crisis?
On Wednesday, Nigeria’s Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters, Adeyemi Dipeolu, optimistically announced that Nigeria is on its way out of the recession that has crippled the country for the last couple of years. This profession was based on Nigeria’s 2016 economic performance and last quarter GDP reports. This is clearly news to…
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Posted on February 24, 2017
Comments Off on Malawi Fully Outlaws Child Marriage
On Tuesday Malawi made a historic amendment to its constitution to fully outlaw child marriage. As of 2015, Malawi had the ninth highest rate of child marriage in the world. Though the practice was technically already prohibited under Malawian law, having been banned in 2015 with the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Law, which increased…
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Posted on February 17, 2017
Comments Off on The Challenges of Providing Menstrual Dignity for Malawian Girls
Nyezerera Primary School in the Phalombe district, southeast Malawi, is one of the main catchment schools for children in a community of 25 villages and accordingly has a very high pupil population. In 2009 when ACT started supporting the school there were 1842 children across the year groups – from Standard 1 to Standard 8.…
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Posted on February 13, 2017
Comments Off on Transforming Lives – Bornface Bulambo (Automotive Mechanic, Zambia)
In 1998 ACT sponsored its first child, Christine, a 7 year old Zambian girl who had lost her father and whose mother, Elizabeth, was struggling to look after her seven children. With ACT’s support Christine completed secondary school and is now working in Lusaka. In the 19 years since, ACT has supported the education of…