Global News by Tag: Women
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Nancy Acieng stands outside the door of Pride Microfinance Limited, a bank in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. A fairly educated woman, she works hard to earn money selling fresh food and fruit from a roadside stall.
She says her hard work used to go to waste because her husband routinely stole her ATM card and withdrew the contents of her account. But thanks to the bank’s new security measure that requires customers’ fingerprints to withdraw money, she now has full control over her finances.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – “What had my little son and myself done that my husband brought home a second wife?” asks a frail-looking Janaki Adhikari.
Her eyes well up with tears.
“Yes, I then divorced him and raised my son on my own,” she says. “He is now 15 years old.”
KIGALI, RWANDA – It is not yet 7 a.m. on a Friday, and players are already on the football field at Nyamirambo Stadium in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. Sixteen young women, ages 15 to 22, are clad in white jerseys and running drills in advance of Sunday’s game in the national women’s league.
BAMENDA, CAMEROON – Sarah Ngalla, 56, is a primary school teacher in Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon’s Northwest region. The mother of three children, Ngalla says that she was never interested in politics until a regional civil society organization, Community Initiative for Sustainable Development, started its campaign in 2010 for more women to run for office in this year’s elections.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – In the middle of a small street flanked by fragrant jacaranda trees blooming with purple flowers, a group of actors jostles for space with passersby and a succession of big, white government vehicles outside the Uganda Museum.
This is not a demonstration. Rather, it's a street theater rehearsal in full force in Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Inside a dark room of an old five-story house in a crowded neighborhood of Lalitpur, a district in central Nepal, Prabha Shrestha has been hiding out for nearly a week.
It’s been five days since Shrestha, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, locked herself in the darkness of this room, with no trace of light except from the mobile phone that she holds in her hands.