It’s often said that being a mother is the hardest job in the world. But when you live in one of the world’s poorest countries, the hardest...

Lucy Chalwe is a happily married woman who lives with her husband and their 2-year-old daughter Maria in the remote rural community of Chilufya. Like most areas in this region, her village is surrounded by a stream...

How can women and girls, in every society, participate effectively as full and equal members of their communities?

I first became interested in this question as an undergraduate partnering with global communities to...

Sabina Mulenga’s story is all too familiar as she tells it. Laying asleep on a mat in the tiny grass-thatched house, was Sabina covered with an old thin blanket. At just 17, she was heavily pregnant, alone and...