Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating. The impacts on her country are already quite bad.

Tourism

Travelling close to home

Zambia’s travel industry is pinning its hopes on building up domestic tourism

Social media

Tackling disinformation

Humanitarian workers are confronted with dangerous disinformation regarding health and vaccinations

Humanitarian aid

A time of reckoning

Humanitarian agencies are assessing what privilege, racism and inequality mean within their own ranks

Struggling family

Some cannot afford health worries

India’s poor cannot let worries about Covid-19 reduce their efforts to make money

Child labour

Underage on the job

Despite protective laws, Zimbabwean children are increasingly being put to work

Food insecurity

As in biblical times

East Africa is living with the looming threat of a second invasion of desert locusts

Global data

Poverty is worsening

Why the World Bank expects extreme poverty to increase dramatically this year

Food security

The ravages of acute hunger

In Zimbabwe, people increasingly worry not what, but whether they will eat tomorrow

Business support

“There is no shortage of ideas, just a shortage of money”

With WIDU.africa, micro-enterprises can receive funding from the diaspora and public grants

International NGO

Mother Earth’s food diversity

Slow Food is a global grassroots organisation, which was founded in Italy in 1989