article / September 4, 2013
Returning to their roots; growing a future for themselves and their children
Vasile, 46, and Marie, 44, live with their five children in the remote and mountainous Vasliu region of Romania. The commune they call home is called Todiresti. It is where Maria grew up and where she knew she wanted to raise a family someday.
article / März 11, 2009
Foster mother & advocate for HIV-positive youth is inspiring example on International Women’s Day
But then life has never been easy for this delicate but strong woman, who married Radu in 1983 and had her first child about six years later. “I found out about Andrei’s condition in 1990. When he was 15 months old, he started to vomit and have diarrhea.
publication / Oktober 31, 2015
Healthy and Just Cities for Children and Youth
In October 2016, the United Nations adopted ‘The New Urban Agenda’ at the Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development – a set of guidelines and measurements that will support the implementation of the SDGs in urban ar
article / Januar 28, 2012
The 10-year-old boy who became a man...
ALBANIA- While we were waiting in the cold to meet Samet and his mother, the lively voices of children returning from school made the cold weather of winter warmer.
publication / April 5, 2016
Adolescent Lit Review for HIV Resources-Desk Review
Of the 35 million people worldwide living with HIV, nearly 5 million are young people aged adolescents aged 10 to 24 years.
opinion / April 24, 2020
COVID-19 places millions of children at risk in fragile & displacement contexts
The impact of COVID-19 is likely to be disastrous and unprecedented for children.
publication / August 20, 2020
Las voces de los niños y niñas en tiempos de COVID-19
Este proyecto de consulta incluyó 101 niños/as y jóvenes (58 mujeres y 43 hombres) entre 8 y 17 años procedentes de 13 países: Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Brasil, República Democrática del Congo (RDC), Mali, Mongolia, Nicaragua,
publication / Juli 20, 2016
Understanding handpump sustainability: Determinants of rural water source functionality in the Greater Afram Plainsregion of Ghana
Safe drinking water is critical to human health and development. In rural sub-Saharan Africa, most improved water sources are boreholes with handpumps; studies suggest that up to one third of these handpumps are nonfunctional at any given time.