Rising up from poverty isn’t easy, but paths like healthcare and the trades offer a lift. https://t.co/1gJsiQYXpb ...

We don't give aptitude tests to get in here. Most of the kids that come to us aren't even speaking yet. But if you put them in the right environment and you surround them with other kids who are aspiring to do certain things, they'll grow.>> Not all the kids are orphans. Many were brought here by a desperate parent or family member who couldn't afford to feed them. Album has to choose who gets in.We try to set the conditions because otherwise it's hundreds and hundreds of children. So we say only if there's ...

When you hear Northern Nigeria, what comes to mind. A headline, a statistic, a crisis. Every report about Northern Nigeria begins with a number.poverty rate, out of school children, malnutrition. We hear these numbers again and again and it shapes how the world sees the north and how the north sees itself. The numbers are real.I'm not here to dispute the numbers, but numbers describe symptoms. They don't always explain causes. Poverty is a condition. Disconnection is a diagnosis.I'm here to offer you a diff ...

Growing up in Bida, I became an influencer long before anybody here calls himself an influencer because our father had trees in his backyard. fruit bearing trees. So I had my sphere of influence.The neighborhood, the entire neighborhood knew that we had the trees and they knew that seasonally my father put the fruits in basket and shared with the neighborhood. They also knew that I had my on-site gig. If you are my friend that year, you get to snack on our guavas.They were mostly guavas, the jumbo kind, thi ...

Good morning everyone and uh thank you for this opportunity. When you look at our society in the dry season, you can look at parch dry land and say nothing is growing. That's one way of looking at it.But from experience we know that in a few months once rain falls that that dry land had the potential for a lot of green a lot of flowers a lot of fruit and nutrition for the whole society. So as we look at our society as we ask ourselves when we see problems what really do we see. Is it really a problem or hav ...

Nitish Kumar has run India’s poorest state for all but nine months of the past 20 years. The Bihar of today is a showcase of his achievements—and of his shortcomings https://t.co/cIgCGmoPzm ...

As he moves to India’s upper house, Nitish Kumar leaves behind a state that remains the country’s poorest. Yet he leaves behind, too, a place that has learnt to expect more from its leaders https://t.co/QugeQViznf ...

Nitish Kumar has run India’s poorest state for all but nine months of the past 20 years. The Bihar of today is a showcase of his achievements—and of his shortcomings https://t.co/11llm3KAaeIllustration: Lan Truong https://t.co/3V38FDGcy7 ...

Stories of recruiters targeting poor, often unemployed, young men have emerged across Africa. Governments on the continent are starting to wise up https://t.co/usxREzrIZJ ...

Food is something we all have in common. After all, we all need to eat, right. Which sounds pretty simple, but it isn't.Food is so much more than nutrition. It's culture. It's identity. It's rooted in our memories. It's something deeply connected to our humanity.But food is also power too because unfortunately for many people they hold no power over what they eat or how they access food. They don't have a choice. I first learned about power as a chef who transitioned from working in restaurants to now runni ...