The NGO Plan International offers low-income Pakistanis who dropped out of school a second chance. In just two years, students are brought up to speed and readied to take all-important board exams.
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 In ending hunger, markets matter. Ethiopia is implementing lessons learned after the 2003 famine. |
 Demand for biofortified crops has surged as awareness of the value of nutrition through the 1,000 Days period between conception and the second birthday of the child has spread. |
 Lettucebee Kids is an Islamabad-based organization that aims to better integrate street children into society. Through art and music therapy, children learn life lessons and get an education as well. |
 In Islamabad, a self-sustaining organization called Lettucebee Kids is working to help children who have very adult responsibilities. |
 In her new book, Kathryn Joyce uncovers how conservative Christians have come to dominate the international adoption market with practices that often amount to trafficking. |
 Last November, hundreds of women and children were raped in Minova, on the shores of Lake Kivu, by soldiers from the Congolese national army. |
 Last November soldiers from the Congolese Army went on a rampage of looting and rape in the market town of Minova, in Eastern DRC. For the first time, perpetrators reveal what motivates them to rape. |
 As the G8 discusses sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, perpetrators and victims speak out about mass rape in Minova. |
 Grantee Fiona Lloyd-Davies directed and produced a BBC Newsnight segment investigating whether DRC soldiers were ordered to rape women. |
 The Congolese state's haphazard pursuit of a brutal, animal-poaching militia has led to the arrest of many of its victims. Justice, like peace, remains a distant prospect. |
 A new law makes acid attacks a crime, but justice remains elusive for victims like Sidra Yasmeen. She recently won a court case against her attackers. |