Sport can lead the way for young women everywhere
Do you have your own special space where you feel free? When I'm in the pool it’s 'Becky’s World' and no matter what is going on around me, I can just be myself. And in Zambia I visited a place …
Development Debates
A series of guest blogs from the leading voices in aid and poverty reduction. Please note, the views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of DFID or have the support of the British Government.
Women working their way out of poverty in Zambia’s slums
In Zambia one in four people live in slums. Finding regular work is really difficult and many families are forced to go hungry. Parents often can't send their children to school because there's not enough money to put food on …
The time is now to end Female Genital Cutting
Today is Human Rights day and the last of 16 days of activism to end violence against women. Around 140 million women are living with the effects of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). In Africa alone, there are around three million …
How iCow was born: from organic farming to calendars for cows
I'm Su Kahumbu Stephanou, a passionate Kenyan farmer and social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Green Dreams Ltd and Green Dreams Tech Ltd, focused on creating solutions for smallholder farmers in Africa to give them sustainable productivity and incomes. I am …
Raw data - now!
Originally, the acute frustration which led me to invent the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 was all about documents. The frustration was that all kinds of documents were sitting in disks on machines. Even at a very advanced place …
Mobile technology is helping Ghana decide its future
My name is Mac-Jordan Degadjor, a blogger from Ghana and a Technical Advisor on the Ghana Decides project. Ghana Decides is a non-partisan project, being funded by STAR Ghana, which is using social media tools (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc) …
Why we must protect the children affected by Syria's conflict
The conflict in Syria shows no sign of abating, yet media interest is waning. The humanitarian needs of the children affected are hardly mentioned and it is hard to understand why. Within Syria alone, 2.5 million people are affected, 1.2 …
Simple solutions making a world of difference
There are many problems in the developing world that demand intricate, delicate and complex answers. Then there are issues - serious, life changing, even life taking issues - which require breathtakingly simple solutions and the money to make them happen. …
When we empower girls, everybody benefits
Girls who are educated, healthy and free can transform their communities and pass on the benefits to their children, and to their children’s children.
Fast action is saving lives in Sierra Leone
It’s good to be back in Sierra Leone again. I was last here in 2009. It is a country full of life, with a constant buzz about it. But it’s a country that has faced more than its fair share …
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