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Peace Child has been working in Sierra Leone since 2013 supporting vulnerable young women to develop sustainable businesses. In the current COVID-19 crisis the country has had a few hundred cases [...]

The pandemic that our world is facing has led to 2 things I know for certain: lots of change and unity that transcends all the different characteristics of individuals in the global population. [...]

Recently it seems there has been a rise of young people taking action in causes which impact both local communities and the globe. Greta Thumberg, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Dylan D’Haeze and Ridhima [...]

  According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, more than 77 million adults volunteered through some organization. They spent more than 6.9 billion hours volunteering, [...]

Volunteering for a charitable organization can be incredibly rewarding.  For evidence of that, just ask the 38% of British people who did so in 2018. No matter how worthwhile a cause, however, [...]

It takes one week to register a business in Botswana compared to other countries in sub-Saharan Africa where it will only take you three days.  Many entrepreneurs in developing countries (e.g. [...]

In the past, to get seen or heard you had to go through a gatekeeper first. To write an article, you had to pitch to an editor. Today, you can post your own on Medium page. To publish a book, you [...]

  Did you know that 46 percent of individuals who volunteer in the United Kingdom say that their primary reason for volunteering is to help others and to do good. Another 31 percent say that [...]

Elias Msoshi is a 29 years young man, born in a poor family in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), now living as a refugee in the Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. It is known universally by [...]

In May I visited Sierra Leone for the first time. I flew into Freetown airport. It was dark when I arrived and I only had to travel 1km to get to my hotel where I ate and slept before waking up [...]