Aide et Action has been implementing development projects for over 40 years and our conviction is all-encompassing: changing the world through education. Education provides women and men with the ability to write their own history, avoid social predispositions, and follow a path other than the one imposed before their birth by family, society, religion or […]
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Gender: a study to better integrate this approach in Aide et Action projects
The introduction of a gender approach in international solidarity projects makes it possible to act more effectively to establish gender equality. Mathieu Cros, Head of Research, Evaluation and Capitalization at Aide et Action, tells us about the gender study that has just been launched within the NGO. Can you tell us what is the objective […]
Covid-19: Women must be at the heart of tomorrow’s world
The economic and social fallout of Covid-19 has largely landed on women’s shoulders denying women and girls access to some of their basic human rights. As we mark International Women’s Day 2022, we stress that there remains an urgent need for action to centre recovery plans on addressing women’s and girls’ specific needs. A year […]
Keeping Schools Safe for Children
For the International Day of Education 2022, Aide et Action foresees a pessimistic picture of the current evolution of the situation of education, schools, children and young people all over the world. If measures are not taken now, the pandemic – which has already deprived millions of young people from their right to education – […]
Aide et Action Magazine: Tomorrow’s major issues are today’s concern
The populations we have been supporting for the past 40 years are currently facing many crises: migration, conflicts, climate change, gender inequalities and more are threatening the possibility of building a fairer. In order to best support vulnerable populations, we maintain that education is essential. It is the only way for marginalised populations to be […]
Children’s rights: a long-term job
Thirty-two years after the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a text guaranteeing the rights of the child, they are still struggling to be respected in the world today. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and associations, including Aide et Action, are mobilising today to make children’s voices heard and to ensure that their rights become […]
Lao PDR: A scholarship for a better future
As we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child, we celebrate Kanna Sunivong, an inspiring young student in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) who received a scholarship to continue her primary school education and who now has big dreams for her future. In BeangLuang village, a small, rural village surrounded by expansive […]
International Day of the Girl Child: The risk of losing 20 years of progress
Since the unanimous adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for the Empowerment of Women in 1995, significant progress has been made for the rights of girls and women around the world. However, today, multiple crises and conflicts coupled with a lack of funding and attention paid to girls’ education, this progress is […]