The choir has helped fund education for children in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and South Africa through choir performances in ...

In west Africa, it's common for families to foster children informally. This helps ease the burden on parents and can give children from poorer families a chance to improve their lives. An estimated ...

In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 10 percent of children die before they turn 5 years old (SN: 8/3/22); in 2022 alone, around 2.8 million young children died in the entire region. Most are ...

On a roadside in Central Uganda, a woman selling charcoal says she barely earns enough to buy food for herself and her eight children. She is determined for her children to go to school and says she ...

According to a 2022 Unicef study, more than 70% of South African children aged nine to 17 use the internet daily, but fewer than half have received digital literacy education. This means our children ...

Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health and the European Commission. Wolfgang Preiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

South Africa prides itself on having world-class data on schools, matric results, and university enrolments. Yet for children under five, the country’s youngest learners, the state is effectively ...

I first traveled to Africa when I was five years old, and I’ve returned every year since. No matter how many times I go, I’m always filled with that same excitement and awe I had as a little boy. Now ...

Texas Children’s Global HOPE and Baylor College of Medicine Global Health, with support from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization, announced the next front in ...

South Africa doesn’t need to copy/paste the Australian ban, but it does need a coherent national strategy for child safety ...