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An estimated 1.5 million girls under 18 get married in India each year, making it home to the largest number of child brides in the world. Find out how we tackle this.

We are delighted to announce that our early years education programme for Congolese refugee children in Uganda will be benefiting from a £400,000 award in 2024, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

Despite the uncertainty in Myanmar our preschool centres offer a safe space for young children, ensuring vital Early Childhood Development.

Guest blog from Sarah Ndlovu, our International Education Specialist about how we’re breaking the mould, and using play to create an effective early years assessment tool in Uganda.

In the ‘mega camps’ of Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees are stuck living in one of the toughest environments on earth. There is little access to education and girls face pressure to stay home. But in spite of this, there is hope. Bristy, one of our Project Officers, tells us more about how she’s working to change attitudes and encourage girls to attend school.

With the closure of The Body Shop at Home and major changes to the global business, we want to take this opportunity to thank and honour those we have journeyed with since 1990.

How our digital lessons have evolved in Bangladesh to bring learning to live for thousands of Rohingya refugee children.

Babra Nandawula, our social worker in Uganda describes the incredible change she has witnessed in communities in Jinja over the past ten years.

Conditions for over a million Rohingya refugees in Kutupalong camp, the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh are dire. People here are truly living on ‘the edge’, facing poverty and violence, trapped in dangerous conditions and unable to leave.

We share the inside story of the fight to change the law in Uganda. After five years of civil society campaigning, The Prevention and Prohibition of Human Sacrifice Act 2021 was officially signed into law on the 14th July 2021.

In October 2023, an artillery attack in Kachin State, Myanmar destroyed the community of Munglai Hkyet, one of the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps we support in Kachin State. Find out what our partners have been doing to support those affected in the aftermath of the bombing.

In 2022, we began to replicate our Child Protection Team Model in the Karamoja region of Uganda, where children are at risk of neglect, abuse, hunger and trafficking. These new volunteer teams are already making an incredible difference, most recently in combating malnutrition by supporting communities to grow food.