Tag: Africa
Baby-Friendly Farms
This poster explains how CRS is helping women practice exclusive breastfeeding and improve their nutrition through baby-friendly farms to reduce infant morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone.
Using Vouchers in Burkina Faso
This poster looks at how CRS is using a voucher-based response to respond to rising food prices, flood, and drought in Burkina Faso.
Agroenterprise Learning Alliance for southern and eastern Africa
CRS has been working with new technical partners who use a wide range of approaches, methods, and tools for linking smallholder farmers to markets. This meeting will review different methodologies, assess strengths and gaps, and agree on a format for a new learning alliance.
Education for all means orphans and vulnerable children
One of the biggest constraints to achieving education for all is the increasing number of children who cannot attend school because of the HIV pandemic. In Lesotho, CRS is implementing the Mountain Orphans and Vulnerable children Empowerment (MOVE) project to address the multiple needs of these children. Three-quarters of Lesotho’s 1.8 million people live in [...]
Education how-to: Child-Led Health Education
Examines methods of mobilizing children as leaders in the effort to create more healthful school environments and communities.
The way to students’ minds is through their school canteens
Access to education is a human right. In Benin, however, challenges to achieving universal primary education persist. In rural areas, low enrollment and attendance rates are due to a number of factors. Families living in poverty are unable to afford to send their children to school. Although the government has eliminated primary school fees, parents [...]
Water for life
For too many people, gaining access to water is a daily struggle. In rural Malawi, CRS is working to change that situation, partnering with CADECOM to drill wells in rural villages.

