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Changing the lives of Iraq's vulnerable women
02 April 2009
Seventy-year-old Jubaira was widowed during the Iraq conflict. Left to look after her traumatised son alone, she faced destitution - until she got the chance to improve her income
A town stops to vote in Mozambique
24 February 2009
As the people of Namaacha get ready to vote, election observers gear up to keep watch during the busy day ahead
Afghan women find small loans make a big difference
11 February 2009
A loan helped Nasreem to set up her now bustling carpet business
Bangladesh's women learn the art of flood survival
02 February 2009
Women in the flood-prone villages of northern Bangladesh are leading the way in the fight against climate change's impacts
Creating an appetite for learning in Cambodia
30 January 2009
Chea Sinit's mobile library may be small, but the difference it's making to the education of the children in his village is anything but
Rewriting the future for Sudan's children
26 January 2009
In civil war-ravaged Southern Sudan, girls, disabled children and former child soldiers are at long last getting the chance to go to school
Equal chances at school for Serbia's minorities
19 January 2009
Special day centres in northern Serbia are ensuring that, at the beginning and end of every school day, children are in the right mood for learning.
Cashing in on crabs in Zanzibar
16 January 2009
Tourists on the coast of Zanzibar are snapping up the local cuisine - an appetite that local crab-farmer Sada Juma is keen to encourage
Training the next generation of midwives in Pakistan
12 January 2009
Living in a country with one of the world's worst maternal mortality rates, Sumera, 18, has her heart set on making a difference by becoming a midwife
Facts to fight AIDS in rural Brazil
08 January 2009
An information blitz in Amazonas state is ensuring that more and more people get the information they need to protect themselves from HIV
Women grocers show the way in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
07 January 2009
In one West Bank village, a grocery shop run by local women is demonstrating an innovative way to tackle economic hardships
Opening roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo
30 October 2008
Investing in transport infrastructure is helping to improve trade in DRC
Eco-friendly dinners in Nicaragua
20 August 2008
In Sonia Enriquez's kitchen lurked an environmental hazard: the family's old-fashioned, firewood-intensive stove