4:12pm

Wed November 9, 2011
Global Health

Rwanda is empowering girls, with a little help from Seattle

Credit RGI
The students at Gashora Academy, first class of the Rwanda Girls Initiative.

It has become a mantra in aid and development circles today to say that empowering girls is the single most effective means of fighting poverty, inequity and any number of ills in poor countries.

And in Rwanda, Paul Kagame’s government is clearly walking the talk on girls and women — and a number of Seattle organizations are assisting in the gender revolution happening here.

Read more on Humanosphere.