Female Community Health Volunteers: The backbone of Nepal’s healthcare system. Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) form the first point of contact for basic health services in local communities for the treatment of common diseases. They deliver essential maternal and child healthcare and outreach services for immunisation. They also provide mental health support and help women …
Saraswoti Nagarkoti, 18, is from Godawari Municipality in Lalitpur, Nepal. She lost her mother to cancer when she was just nine months old. On finding out that her mother passed away due to unavailability of prompt and accessible healthcare, she decided to become a doctor.
Priyanshu is a young girl from Deoghar in Jharkhand, a region where child marriage is a common practice and parents begin searching for grooms for their daughters as soon as they enter adolescence.
Growing up in a highly patriarchal society has been a big challenge for me and every other young woman and girl out there. In my community there are many incidents of gender-based and domestic violence, and most abusers go unpunished. This has to stop. One act of violence is too many. Violence against women and …
Meet Paulina Paulina Joseph, a 16-year-old girl from a village called Mtitaa, in central Tanzania, has been working hard to eradicate gender-based violence in her community. Paulina, who lives with her mother and two siblings, is in her third year of secondary school. Growing up she saw women and girls in her community held back …
This story is a part of our 10 years of Restless Development Celebrations; Becoming Restless, Changing Development. Since 1985 we’ve been helping young people take control of their lives and help their communities, and ten years ago we transformed to be more community-driven than ever. Abdul Mans-Kanu, now a Programme Officer at Restless Development, tells …
This story is a part of our 10 years of Restless Development Celebrations;Â Becoming Restless, Changing Development. Restless Development is here today thanks to its incredible supporters. To celebrate 10 years since we became Restless Development Megan Andrews caught up with one of those supporters. Jim Sewell first got involved with us in 1990 when we …
This story is a part of our 10 years of Restless Development Celebrations; Becoming Restless, Changing Development. Youth constitute 18% of the global population (in my country, Uganda, they are 78% of the population), and they understand the challenges they face better than anyone. I believe the main solution to the development challenge across the …
Franco is now more determined than ever to protect the environment. Especially in his community in Karamoja, one of the most remote areas of Uganda.