PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: A champion you’ve changed.
There are women in Rosa’s community in Colombia who don’t take professional jobs because their husbands forbid it. These women are forced to believe that a woman’s purpose is to take care of the home, and a man’s purpose is to have a career. There is no agency — no choice in these roles. And […]
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA: Meet Aminata, who works to pay for her own school fees
17.5% percent of girls in Burkina Faso advance from primary to secondary school. Even if they can afford their school fees, gender violence, sexual assault, and discrimination at school is so rampant that girls often drop out. Aminata lost her father when she was seven years old. Her mother works hard to care for her […]
