Defending human rights
Thick smoke from the lead smelting plant spread across the village of Owino Uhuru near Mombasa in Kenya. People got sick, women miscarried and chicken died if they drank from the river.
Thick smoke from the lead smelting plant spread across the village of Owino Uhuru near Mombasa in Kenya. People got sick, women miscarried and chicken died if they drank from the river.
A blacksmith, dental technician or specialist in car upholstery — what is your business idea? This question was addressed to Kosovan people by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in spring 2015 and 2016.
Prischilla Mema Mumba from Kenya pursues political issues that are important to women, such as the right to own land and water supply. “I told people that they should vote for me because I know their problems and I want to solve them.
“Before we had to send the samples to Kenya or Ethiopia. Sometimes they were destroyed on their way there, and it took weeks to get the results.
“Nowadays everybody has access to water supplied by the Government, even people living in rural areas. Before the situation was much worse: water had to be drawn from wells.
“Before I couldn’t even break stones. The course in beauty therapy taught me entrepreneurial skills, restored my confidence and helped me to open my own beauty salon.
How can you learn anything at school if you can’t see the writing on the blackboard? Or hear the teacher?
“We have been able to provide HIV tests, treatment and guidance to an increasing number of children and young people,” says Bence Maziku from Tanzania. Maziku works in an AIDS service centre in Dar es Salaam that provides drugs free-of-charge to 26,000 HIV patients.
Nowadays Faith Wangiru, from Kenya, lives alone with her son and runs a little shop selling water and ice cream. She used to live with her violent husband, on whom she was financially dependent.
Are State funds used as planned to promote education and healthcare? Can people and companies find out how tax revenues have been used?