Notes from Archie Law, CEO of ActionAid Australia
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Before Leya Chede, 47, joined ActionAid’s adult literacy Reflect program, she would have been too shy to even meet a stranger coming to her house. Now she is an elected local councillor, representing women’s issues in the local government in the Palisa district in Kampala, Uganda.
Leya Chede photographed at her turkey rearing house with some goats.
Tags: actionaid, Education, Uganda, women's rights
The most amazing stories of strength, courage and perseverance amongst the most challenging and difficult of circumstances in developing countries usually come from women. This story from ActionAid in Ethiopia really struck a chord with me so I thought I’d share it.
In the village of Nadugne Agam there was no water locally and the women had to carry it from the river, bent double, in back-breaking, 25-litre heavy-duty containers strapped to their shoulders.
Tags: actionaid, water, women's rights
Manju Bai works with manual scavenging in the village Akyia Dev in Madhya Pradesh in India. She is part of the Garima Campaign, but not yet liberated.
PHOTO: FIROZ AHMAN FIROZ/ACTIONAID
Tags: actionaid, India, women's rights
