Global News by Tag: microfinance

HO, GHANA – Nadia Nyarko, 17, is in her fourth year studying general arts at Mawuko Girls Senior High School, a boarding school in Volta, a region in southeastern Ghana. She also volunteers as a peer educator with Village Exchange International/Ghana, VEG, a nonprofit organization that aims to provide small loans, income-generating projects, and sexual and reproductive health information to young women in Ho, the capital of Volta.

 



 KAMPALA, UGANDA – In 2007, the number of albino children being kidnapped, killed and dismembered in Uganda began to rise.