Child Brides: Not So Happily Ever After

Many little girls dream of being a beautiful bride with a fancy white dress, colorful flowers, and dancing the night away with the love of her life. These little girls might even have a pretend wedding, complete with a dandelion bouquet and mommy’s high heels...

STEM Girls: South African School Girls

May 2017 will see South Africa will launch the first private satellite into space from Africa. The fact that a group of school girls are responsible is even more historic. Cape Peninsula University of Technology are responsible for this historic feat. They are trying...

The Marriage Terminator: Chief Theresa Kachindamoto

Chief Theresa Kachindamoto has been a senior Malawi chief in Monkey Bay for the last 13 years for around 900,000 people. As the youngest of 12 children, she never imagined she would one day become chief. It wasn’t even something she wanted...

Girl Soldiers: Sierra Leone

The Civil War in Sierra Leone started in 1991 and lasted for 11 years, taking the lives of over 50,000 people, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and leaving thousands of people with permanent injuries. One of the big casualties of this war were...

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