With a recent explosion in mobile phones, USAID engages Afghanistan’s best and brightest to grow mobile money.
Kathleen McGowan
The country’s ‘bunges,’ or democratic youth groups, are serving as a powerful counterweight to widespread apathy, unemployment and election violence, all the while fomenting tomorrow’s leaders.
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Meet Anu, a 13-year-old girl who lives with her mother, father and brother, Binod, in rural India.
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Quality Education online extra
Gender-based violence prevention program targets youth with messages of equality in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Josh Harris
With over 90-percent mobile phone coverage, but few physical banks, text-based banking means the archipelago’s rural poor can easily access crucial services for the first time.
Nearly half of the population is illiterate. In some regions, 60 percent of the residents never learn to read, and among women, the rate can reach as high as 80 percent in certain outlying areas.
An aquarium pump, a toilet and a battery are devices not usually associated with revolutionary ideas. But then again, following the norm is not usually how transformation occurs.
Kelly Bluth
