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April 13, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Is Empowering Women Key to Eradicating Global Hunger?
As global food prices continue to remain high, experts says there is one often-overlooked solution for fighting hunger: women.
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Ghana
February 15, 2010 | BBC
In Pictures: Ghana's Market Girls - the Kayayo
Peter Dicampo follows women and girls from Ghana's barren north known as the Kayayo as they travel south in search of work as porters in city markets.
January 06, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
The Traveling Mirror and a Fitting Goodbye
Pulitzer Center grantee Peter DiCampo, filmmaker Alicia Sully and Peace Corps volunteer leader Allison Terry traveled all over Ghana's northern region to education rural villages about the Kayayo.
November 30, 2009
Urban Migration Outreach Program
Filmmaker Alicia Sully, photographer Peter DiCampo, and Peace Corps Volunteer Leader Allison Terry engage rural communities in discussions on urban migration and HIV/AIDS.
October 30, 2009 | TIME
Traveling with Ghana's Kayayo Girls
Photographer Peter DiCampo meets the young women who come to Ghana's big cities in search of work and a future.
September 26, 2009 | GlobalPost
Ghana's Kayayo Girls Do Heavy Lifting
Young female porters—Kayayo—eke out a living, strive for better lives.
September 17, 2009
Ghana's Kayayo: Making the Most of Poverty
The Kayayo women of Ghana struggle to find jobs in the southern cities of the country, migrating from the north every year to escape the center of a cycle of poverty.
August 31, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
Ghana's Kayayo: On Myths and Poverty
The Kayayo women of Ghana migrate from the country's poorer Muslim north to the major cities of the Christian south to find work.
August 31, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
Ghana: From Sodom and Gomorrah to Ink and Chalk
Alietu works as a Kayayo, waiting with other girls at a market entrance for buses to arrive, and then chasing after with the hope that the passengers will need their goods carried home or to a market.
August 10, 2009 | The Christian Science Monitor
People Making a Difference: Mohammed Salifu
Mohammed Salifu, a street-savvy youth counselor, helps women and girls who leave home to look for work in Ghana's capital, Accra.
April 02, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
A Wantugu Edit
The lives of Kayayo women living in the "Sodomandgomorrah" city in Ghana.
March 24, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
Northward Bound
Peter DiCampo visits the village where many Kayayo women move to the city of Accra from.