Smart Girls Foundation, a social enterprise, trains girls in areas like machinery welding, automotive mechanics and electric installation

Illegal immigrants face despicable conditions on their journeys and many end up dead or suffering life-threatening conditions in Zambia

A working mother of five reports how she organises childcare despite expensive day-care in Burundi

Disappointed in government-funded education, even poor parents increasingly opt for private schools

The lives of young women in Nepal are determined by traditions and taboos, even though the constitution guarantees them equal rights

The pandemic interrupted the education of 360 million Indian students and kept them trapped in their homes, mostly without any option for e-learning

Over ten years after the start of the war, the educational situation of Syrian children and youth in Lebanon remains disastrous

In families with disabled children in Malawi, women bear the main burden – moreover, they are often abandoned by their husbands and communities

Though poor education affects society as a whole, many governments do not prioritise the sector appropriately

Under certain conditions, falling birth rates can produce a “demographic dividend”, for example in sub-Saharan Africa