The Lerncafés (learning café) is a free program aiming to support children and young people aged from 6 to 15 years facing any learning challenge to thrive in school through free tutoring. The program helps children from refugee families, asylum seekers or migrant families, or any children facing difficulties to have access to free study […]
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a risk of an unprecedented global economic crisis has threatened to push millions of people into poverty and lost the few advances made in the last decades in achieving a less unequal society. However, many civil society actors are fighting to change this scenario. This is the case
The organization Village Hope Core International is a community development organization with a mission to empower communities in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa to eradicate poverty and improve family health. Promoting public health and education, through income generation and capacity building programs, reaching over 300,000 villagers in the poorest areas of Kenya. During the outbreak of
A cooperative team from Yale, Stanford and Innovations Poverty Action has conducted a control trial over 350,000 individuals in Bangladesh and identified four strategies that would effectively change norms to encourage mask wearing. The NORM project stands for no-cost, offering information, reinforcement, and modelling. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) donated $3 million to
Among the many aspects of daily life impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the overall decrease of mental health has been an issue largely observed around the globe. For this reason, the initiative KeinerBleibtAllein created a campaign on social media platforms meant to fight loneliness, connecting people feeling alone during the holiday season. According to a
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The World Bank has signed a financial agreement of U$ 221.5 million to the Government of Vietnam to tackle the local recovery. The budget will give a concession of 30 years, gracing the period of 5 years. The action aims to foster an inclusive economic recovery by easing the tax burden on businesses, improving access
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