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Achuka Simon lost the use of his legs from polio as an infant, but he never lost his determination and spirit. As a Primary Five student at...

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Sidonia Evasio is 19 years-old and lives in the South Sudan. She hails from Western Equatoria State, a largely agricultural region, which, like...

Vegetable Garden in School Project: The Cavite, Philippines’ Experience for Enhancing Nutrition and Agro-biodiversity Background As part of...

More than half of children missing out on school live in sub-Saharan Africa (UNESCO 2013). Most of those children are girls. A good example of...

Manang (elder sister) Connie never imagined her two pregnant goats will multiply so fast to become 11 goats in just 11 months and become her...

Atim Vicky, 24, is a classic case of a young girl whose poverty and unplanned early pregnancy made the future appear dim. Atim was born in a small...

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IIRR project on Bio Intensive Gardening also has a preference for native crops because they are better at adapting to local conditions compared to...

The aim is to bring back 1,000 girls who for economic or social reasons dropped out or threatened to drop out of school and keep them in school. ...

UN Women awards a three year grant of $1 million to IIRR for a project: “To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls in Samburu, Marsabit and Isiolo...

Starting January 2016, IIRR will be hosting Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) in its global headquarters in the...

Against all odds, at 17 Eddy Gabriel Leleur stands taller than his classmates in Form One (ninth grade) at Maralal High School, in Maralal town of...

IIRR has been working in a flood-affected urban municipality in Cavite, Philippines, for almost 3 years now. One of our colleagues in this...