How UK aid is helping girls around the world

...teenage girls learning to code. One of them told him: “Education is a weapon that can change the world.” “She’s right”, he said, but added that “millions of girls around...
...teenage girls learning to code. One of them told him: “Education is a weapon that can change the world.” “She’s right”, he said, but added that “millions of girls around...
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma meets girls learning how to code during a trip to Ethiopia. Picture: DFID/Anna Dubuis International Development Secretary Alok Sharma wrote this piece about the upcoming...
...committed £5.8 billion in aid between 2016-2021 to tackle climate change, one of the greatest environmental challenges faced today. This funds projects that help the world’s poorest by tackling the...
...how globally the rate of FGM is in decline, but warned we cannot afford to be complacent. The latest statistics from UNFPA suggest that between 2015 and 2030 close to...
...security. But I want others across the world to have the same opportunities and freedoms we enjoy. The whole of humanity, and, crucially, the UK will be better off as...
...if it spreads to Uganda, as the country has direct flights to the UK. In an interview with Sky News’s ‘The News Hour’ on Monday evening, after delivering the statement,...
...Uganda. “We had an outbreak in Goma (in the DRC) a city of two million people on Sunday. “If we do not get this under control this, which is already...
...in rural Uganda, this is a common tale. Most girls don’t know what will happen when they take the herbs and communities don’t know there are safer options. But not...