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Poverty, violence, long travel distances, and a lack of supplies often negatively affect Tanzanian students’ ability to consistently attend school. For adolescent girls, these vulnerabilities are compounded by unwanted pregnancy, early marriage, and negative gender norms — which can lead to dropout and discontinuation of education. To help break this cycle, the Bantwana Initiative of…
The Waache Wasome (“Let them Learn”) project, implemented by World Education, Inc.’s Bantwana Initiative in northern Tanzania, is helping secondary school students — especially girls — mitigate and address a range of barriers, including school-related gender-based violence, so that they can successfully complete their education. Over a five-year span, Waache Wasome introduced WEI/Bantwana’s evidence-informed model…
When a girl drops out of secondary school, her life changes radically. Her livelihood prospects diminish; she becomes more vulnerable to poverty, exclusion, and exploitation; and her physical and mental health often suffer. If she has dropped out because of pregnancy, her challenges are compounded by social stigma and the need to care for her…
LIMCA (Livelihood Improvement for Mothers and Caregivers of Adolescents) is an economic resilience strategy that catalyzes change at the household level. The aim is to strengthen families’ financial resilience as well as to improve parent-child and gender dynamics to the benefit of girls’ education in Tanzania. The LIMCA community-managed savings group model has been refined…
Mozambique’s HIV/AIDS epidemic has resulted in an estimated 920,000 children orphaned by AIDS and 2.2 million people living with HIV. Testing, care, and treatment programs have been widely scaled up over the past decade, but the fight against the epidemic is not over, particularly with regard to timely linkage to HIV care and treatment, and…
WEI/Bantwana and its partners provide integrated, clinic and community-based early childhood stimulation (ECS) services, targeting high HIV burden families and communities. We focus on reaching HIV+ and HIV-exposed infants and children with delayed attainment of physical, health, cognitive and socio-emotional development milestones. Our ECS model layers complementary OVC services and referrals to critical HIV services,…
President Biden's first Executive Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government supports a comprehensive approach to advancing equity through federal policy and investment. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act reauthorization is an opportunity to fully implement the equity levers inside the U.S. adult education and workforce development system. The…
President Biden’s first Executive Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government supports a comprehensive approach to advancing equity through federal policy and investment. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act reauthorization is an opportunity to fully implement the equity levers inside the U.S. adult education and workforce development system. The…
President Biden’s first Executive Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government supports a comprehensive approach to advancing equity through federal policy and investment. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act reauthorization is an opportunity to fully implement the equity levers inside the U.S. adult education and workforce development system. The…
President Biden’s first Executive Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government supports a comprehensive approach to advancing equity through federal policy and investment. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act reauthorization is an opportunity to fully implement the equity levers inside the U.S. adult education and workforce development system. The…
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