PHOTO: Brazil: In December 2001, a girl, Elaine da Paixao Santos, stands in front of a wall on which she has drawn a heart and the inscription "I love you, mom" in Portuguese, on the grounds of the Mother City Foundation in La Paz, a poor neighbourhood in Salvador, capital of the eastern state of Bahia in Brazil. Elaine lives with her grandmother to avoid the fighting in her parents’ home. (UNICEF/HQ01-0442/Claudio Versiani)
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FAWE News. (December, 2003). Girls’ Education at the Grassroots- Communities as Agents of Change, 11(4).
ISBN: 1026-1990

FAWE is a pan-African non-government organization founded in 1992, whose goal is to increase access, improve and enhance the quality of education for girls and women in Africa. This edition of FAWE NEWS, which is a quarterly report produced by the organization, looks at communities as agents of change through mobilization, initiatives, participation, definitions of roles, etc.


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