Youth Speak promotes girls’ voices

March 7, 2014

Rabat, Morocco – Souad Achehabou was a star student at her school in Jdour, a rural commune in Morocco’s Youssoufia province, 185 miles south of Rabat. She loved studying and was excited to go to school. But she lived far away and was regularly without reliable transportation. Many mornings, she would hitchhike. Worrying about her safety, her parents pressured her to drop out....
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Faith, hope and rollerblades for kids in Honduras

January 22, 2014

Can a pair of rollerblades be more powerful than drugs and gangs? Kids in one of the most dangerous cities in Honduras are strapping on skates to fight violence and show their community how young people can be a force for positive change. ...
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TEDx encourages a different kind of Wednesday in Aden

January 21, 2014

The event took place on a Wednesday – a day typically associated with civil disobedience in Aden, a port city in the south of Yemen. But on this particular Wednesday, December 11, hundreds found their seats in the conference room of Aden’s Mercure Hotel and listened instead to speakers who have the ideas and passion to better their community and country....
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