Empowering girls to avoid early pregnancies

DC outlines causes for early pregnancies
Daily News
MORAL decay, poverty, bad traditions and practices as well as the effects brought by globalisation are key factors for teens' pregnancy at secondary schools in the country. The statement was made in a speech by Temeke District Commissioner (DC), Ms ...

Washington Post
Empowering women and girls in developing nations
Washington Post
Whether she is traveling to villages deep inside Tanzania or working side-by-side with leaders in developing countries, Natika Washington has one singular goal – to invest in the financial and social well-being of women and girls globally. As the director of ...

Nneamaka Anyanwu started an initiative to help underprivileged girls in Nigeria through basketball.

Forty-three-year-old Dorah Christopher Msuya, a woman living with albinism, is one of 35 women and girls who recently attended training for a Women and Girls’ Empowerment (Woge) project in Arusha Region.

Bunyinge Chacha 30, a resident of Buriba Village in Sirari Tarime District has been injured after her husband speared her in the right buttock allegedly for refusing to support the decision to marry off their 11 year-old daughter forcefully.

PRI
Saving teen girls from early marriage — and mutilation
PRI
I'm on a bumpy dirt road leading out of Tarime in rural, northern Tanzania. With me is local child rights activist Kambibi Kamugisha. As we leave the city behind, we notice small processions of people decked out with crowns and sashes. They're blowing ...

IPPmedia
'Orphaned girls forced into early marriages by family caretakers'
IPPmedia
Caretakers of orphaned girls in Tarime District and elsewhere in the country are the centre of allegations surrounding forced early marriages this despite ongoing efforts to protect women and children's rights. Interviewed recently in the region, scores of school ...

A total of 808 girls in Rukwa Region dropped out of school in four years due to pregnancy. This is unacceptable. The statistics work out to 202 girls whose prospects for a good future have been nipped in the bud each year.

eLearning Africa 2014 recently saw both thinkers and tinkerers from around the continent and abroad get together in Kampala, Uganda.