Women and Girls
Meet the woman helping light up Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp
Lucy is one of the only women solar technicians in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, which together with the nearby Kalobeyei settlement hosts 249,000 refugees from 24 nationalities. Like Lucy, some of these refugees have fled conflict, insecurity, disasters, or threats of persecution; others were born in the camp.
Read MoreThe remarkable life of Bushra Aldukhainah: A story from Northern Yemen
I was born and raised in highly conservative Northern Yemen, where a girl usually does not tread beyond primary school, where a girl must learn to prioritize household chores above everything, where a girl normally gets married at a very tender age, and where it is highly unlikely for a woman to chalk out a professional career.
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A woman with a wrench? ‘Why not?’ asks Ra’edah Abu Alhalaweh
Ra'edah Abu Alhalaweh is a 53-year-old, female plumber living in Zarqa, Jordan. Since many women in the Middle East cannot be alone with a male, non-family member, home repairs can be difficult. Being able to employ a female plumber solves this problem and employs women.
Read MoreBurgers, with a side of empowerment: Elisa Alvarado, fast food entrepreneur
Elisa “Ely” Alvarado started her fast-food business with just 1,000 lempiras ($40), in a tent on a vacant lot. Here, on a neighborhood street in the town of Villanueva, Honduras, just south of San Pedro Sula, the country’s financial capital and second-largest city, she began selling baleadas, a traditional Honduran handheld food, to passerby.
Read MoreHonduras: fishing for a brighter future, overcoming adversity along the way
“Doors are closed to us. We are seen as weak. We are seen as incapable. Society itself has taken care of giving women that reputation, but I think that this should be left in the past, because women have a lot of strength spiritually.”
Read MoreBarbara’s story: From food insecurity to financial power in Ghana’s cocoa fields
Barbara Sika Larweh is a volunteer community organizer in the cocoa-growing region of Ghana who has persuaded many women in several villages to grow their own food and join their local village savings and loan program.
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