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 […]
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International Day of Education 2021: Time to address the emergency
The 3rd International Day of Education will be earmarked by alarming figures relating to education around the world. In the current context of a global pandemic and while 2021 remains uncertain, Aide et Action is calling on states, including France, to urgently take action, particularly financially, to support of education. Before the pandemic, 258 million […]
International Women’s Day 2020: The doors to education remain closed for girls and women!
As International Women’s Day 2020 approaches, here at Aide et Action, we’d like to stress that girls’ education must be recognized as a development priority around the world in order to build a more just and sustainable world. Today, women make up 63% of the global illiterate population and nearly 29 million girls still remain […]