What Refugee Girls and All Girls Deserve: An Education

By Rocio Ortega Editor’s Note: The UN Foundation’s Girl Up campaign works with the United Nations to support refugee girls in Ethiopia by promoting their education, health, safety, and leadership skills. Learn more here. The only time I had ever heard the word refugee was rocking out to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ song simply titled “Refugee.” It wasn’t until I had the opportunity to visit and interact with refugee girls in Ethiopia that I […]

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Strengthening the Safety of Women Refugees through Cleaner Cookstoves

We know refugees need food, water, shelter, and medicine, but less attention is paid to their energy and cooking needs. In advance of World Refugee Day on June 20, I sat down to talk to Radha Muthiah, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, about what this means for families living in refugee camps and other humanitarian contexts. Jenni Lee: I was shocked to learn that in some camps it’s been reported that

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The Resilience of Nyanwour | unfoundation.org

I met Nyanwour during a visit earlier this year to the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya. She was a recent arrival to the camp. Nyanwour fled the violence in South Sudan with her four children, who were between 5 and 8 years old, and walked three days to get to the safety of the Kakuma camp. Her story was heartbreaking to hear, but what struck me most was her strength and resilience. In the

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Women & Children: “The Best Investment We Can Make”

United Nations Foundation President & CEO Kathy Calvin shared a picture of herself at age 5 in support of all children reaching their 5th birthday. Last month, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shared a deeply personal story, relating for the first time that he had an older brother and older sister who passed away at birth. In telling this story, he reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to the goal of ending preventable maternal and child deaths, saying,

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Tackling World Goals Through World Cup +SocialGood

The week the World Cup kicked off, the +SocialGood community brought together experts, innovators, and representatives from the United Nations to explore how global issues, sports, and social good intersect in a country that is fast emerging as one of the social media capitals of the world. But don’t worry if you didn’t catch the action the first time around — we’ve got all of your World Cup +SocialGood instant replays right here. Each day

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6 Essential Tips for a Successful Career Change - a business person stands at a fork in the road with multiple different directions.

6 Essential Tips for a Successful Career Change : unjobvacanicies.com

Volunteering Interning Freelancing But what if you need some technical skills you can acquire only through education? For instance, the IT industry requires applicants to know code. Sure, you could get a graduate or college degree. However, that presents a financial barrier for some people with tuition costs and time off from work.  The solution? Take online courses. Make sure you get your completion certificate (if applicable) at the end of the course. 5. Network 

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Bottom Line: Doing Nothing on Climate Change is the Riskiest Business of All

Yesterday a bi-partisan group of political and financial leaders said that climate change will cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars a year if action isn’t taken to slow it down. They called their report Risky Business. Scientists, business leaders, and political figures are telling us that the need to deal with our changing climate is urgent. The UN’s panel of climate science experts report more certainty than ever (95%) that humans are causing the

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Why the World Needs Entrepreneurs

How do you define entrepreneurship? Do you see it as a way to make money, a mindset, or a method to make the world a better place? I have always known that entrepreneurs are risk takers: they make visions into reality by developing new products, processes, and markets. So what happens when all the definitions for entrepreneurship merge? You get today’s young entrepreneur. Now, you can make money and do good in the world at

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Keeping the Momentum Going for Maternal and Child Health

Women’s and children’s health and survival rates around the world are steadily improving, but too many women, newborns, and children – the overwhelming majority of whom live in developing countries – continue to die from largely preventable causes. Over the past few weeks, the global health community has come together at a series of high profile events in Geneva, Toronto, and Washington D.C. to assess progress and accelerate momentum for women’s and children’s health. This

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