Among the 20 schools we’ve brought electricity to schools in Burkina Faso, West Africa, some didn’t have toilets. In addition to solar lighting, five schools have now be equipped with modern toilets to address hygiene and sanitation issues and reduce the risk of disease. Thanks to simple additions like this, living and learning conditions are […]
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Education and health: the same fight
On the occasion of World Health Day (7 April 2021), Aide et Action looks back on the essential contribution of the education sector to the promotion of better health and well-being for all and calls for bringing together both education and health efforts in the context of development projects, particularly those carried out in a […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Self-reliant women; independent women
This year, Aide et Action is celebrating its 40th anniversary; four decades of commitment to promote and strengthen the right to education for all. Since 1981, we have been working relentlessly to support vulnerable and marginalized populations, to reduce inequalities which they are facing, to reduce injustice, and to create the best educational opportunities for […]
“Business Initiative Challenge” launched to support the entrepreneurial spirit of Vietnam’s ethnic minority youth
In collaboration with local nonprofit Northwest Development Cooperation Center and Youth Union of Lao Cai and Hoa Binh provinces we launched a competition titled Business Initiative Challenge in late March 2021 to inspire and encourage ethnic minority youth – especially young women – to develop and implement start-up initiatives locally. As part of the EU-funded Increasing Access to […]
In Burkina Faso, thanks to vocational training, women are building bigger businesses
Aide et Action’s Training in the Service of Feminine Leadership (FORSELF) project in Ouagadougou, West Africa, enables women previously deprived of education to train for a trade and develop better income-generating activities. Mariam and Adama are two project participants who can attest in the project’s power to transform lives. In Burkina Faso, a number of […]
In India, new professional skills offer Susana a new lease of life
After dropping out of school prematurely and struggling to raise her son on her own, Susana decided to change her life. Through aesthetic training, provided by an Aide et Action program, she was able to open her own beauty parlour and earn enough money to support her family. Now, Susana plans to help others by […]
International Women’s Day 2021: Women’s rights threatened by COVID-19
2020 should have been a year of celebration of the rights obtained for women over the past two decades. Instead, it will be remembered as the year of one of the greatest human rights setbacks; the year that the COVID-19 pandemic caused health, economic and social crises, of which women were the first to be […]
Junior Magazine: Education in time of crisis
At Aide et Action, we believe in the power of education to raise awareness among young people, to free them from prejudices and to prepare them to live together in tolerance. Education is key to leading younger generations towards peaceful citizenship and solidarity. Holding this belief, we developed our junior magazine from 2015 to 2018 to contribute towards […]