People & Culture
Recognizing Women’s Dive Day in 2020
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) launched a simple idea in 2015 — encourage women to gather together for a day of their own — Women’s Dive Day. In…
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Determining women's destiny
How evaluating an educational program that helps women in India empower themselves could help ensure its future
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The Mahila Samakyha program has helped educate and empower women in rural India for nearly 30 years. Niki Wilson explains how an ongoing study of how it does so could lend it even greater credibility. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the developing world, a partnership between the International Development Research Centre and Canadian Geographic.
Visit the Charting Change website to read “Determining women’s destiny“.
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