Every 21 September is Peace Day. It’s a day to lay down our weapons in every conflict, from full-on wars to personal spats, and promote the ideals of peace, love and harmony. Organisations [...]
On June 16th 1976, between ten and twenty thousand South African school children walked from their schools to Orlando Stadium in Soweto, peacefully protesting for better standards in education [...]
Our international intern Fred Fenwick at the Be The Change Academy in Paynesville, Liberia shares his thoughts, observations and knowledge about the impending rainy season. As a person who grew [...]
The shadow economy is one of many names for it. You might hear it as working ‘off the books’ or ‘under the table’. Officially, it’s the ‘informal economy’, ‘underground economy’ or ‘non-wage [...]
Our newest international intern, Jessica Littlewood, shared with us some thoughts and feelings after her first week at the Be The Change Academy in Paynesville, Liberia. My first week in Liberia [...]
In the west of Africa, Peace Child International run a trio of entrepreneurship programmes for young women. Delivered in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the Be The Change Academy (BTCA) offers [...]
Youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa stands at 22.8%, with figures ranging from 2.2% in Madagascar to 42% in Tanzania. Right now, sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing GDP growth that most [...]
“I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself” – Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela is one of the few truly global heroes of our age. A towering figure whose message of peace, [...]
A shocking World Health Organisation (WHO) report has shown that there has been a 50% increase in the number of 10-19 year-olds dying from AIDS. This sharp rise contrasts sharply with the wider [...]
Rightly or wrongly, the world labels all of us. This can range from personal things to wide-ranging identifiers such as our nationality and religion. I’m European. This makes me a ‘Westerner’, or [...]