Restavèks For a majority of Haiti’s children, life is marked by hardship as a result of the country’s miserable economic conditions. The life of children called restavèks is worse. Restavèks—extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants—are prone to beatings, sexual assaults and other abuses by host families. As restavèk …
By RAJIV SHAH “Our responsibility doesn’t end when a young girl or boy walks through the doors of a classroom. In fact, it’s at that moment our greatest responsibilities begin.”
Africa Learning Barometer With less than three years remaining until the 2015 deadline to meet the Millennium Development Goals, there are mounting fears that low income regions – in particular sub-Saharan Africa – are at risk of falling well short of MDG2, which focuses on equal and universal access to primary education. The Africa Learning …
