Tag: Feature

An 11-year-old South African girl talks about the fears she faces on her walk to school. From Why Poverty.

Two young Episcopalians work among refugees who find support at The Episcopal Church’s St. Paul’s Within the Walls in Rome.

Just like the lake, a whole way of life is disappearing. Who is to blame, the people upstream for damming the Omo River or the

Poverty, child labor, sex trafficking, lack of education, child marriage, genital mutilation, all contribute to the precarious situation of girls in the 21st century.

Young Nigerians girls, one Christian and one Muslim, learn to be friends and work together, despite the division and violence in their communities.

At her lowest moment, Nicole’s power went out and she had the revelation that saved her sitting in the dark. “I said okay God, is

A divorced 46-year-old father of three lands a job outside of Reading, Pa. after a two years search.

Africans’ land can become Europeans’ land in a hurry. A short video from Why Poverty?

Birhan Woldu, the face of Ethiopia’s 1984 famine i working as a nurse and building schools for children. This is her story. From Why Poverty?

How much space does a teenager need? What’s it like growing up in a tiny flat where the only place you have privacy is the