Act now to ensure girls’ education

Act now to ensure girls’ education

Photo credit : Inès Provoost/AEA Adolescence remains a particularly difficult time for millions of girls. Once they start menstruating, the door to childhood and innocence closes. How can they continue to go to school with blood loss, without access to a toilet and...
Socio-professional training: the key to female empowerment

Socio-professional training: the key to female empowerment

Photo credit : AEA To enable women to become autonomous and take decisions within their households, Action Education promotes their emancipation by offering them technical training and psycho-social support. More than 400 women will be trained in Burkina Faso within...
Young mothers: hope regained thanks to our training

Young mothers: hope regained thanks to our training

Photo credits : Dramane Sessouma/AEA On the occasion of the International Women’s Rights Day (8 March), Action Education is giving a voice to three young mothers who have dropped out of school. In Madagascar, they talk about the socio-professional training they...
A new book to take action in the fight for girls and women

A new book to take action in the fight for girls and women

Stephenie Foster, member of the Education For Women Now Campaign Committee, has just released her book,Take Action: Fighting for Women and Girls. This is a toolkit, for any individual, looking to either engage in activism on a grand scale or on a more individual...