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Postman Knocks Twice: How Poverty Affects Children’s Educational Performance.
[ 20 Sep 2014 | No Comment | 3,516 views]
Programmés pour échouer dans le système scolaire, les enfants issus de milieux défavorisés sont susceptibles d’abandonner leurs études à mi-chemin. The Bridge MAG. Image

As September summons in the new academic year, and millions of
children and young adults return to school and university, parents’ biggest fears around the world are whether or not their offspring will be gain the required qualifications to help them secure jobs in an increasingly harsh and ruthless employment market.
 
Politicians are good at waxing rhetorical as to the necessity for decent educations for the young.
 
But …

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A First Lady Who Puts the Last First. The eponymous charitable Foundation of Cameroon First Lady Chantal Biya is teaming up with the French Association of the world’s oldest international charity, the Order of Malta, to alleviate poverty and eye disease and raise life expectancies among the remotest communities of Cameroon, and, in turn, of the whole African Continent, and the world
[ 20 May 2014 | No Comment | 9,404 views]
Cameroon First Lady Chantal Biya. A First Lady Who Puts the Last First. The Bridge MAG. Image

Ophtalmo Sans Frontières (OSF), a partnership between the Chantal Biya Foundation (CBF) of Cameroon and the French Association of the Order of Malta (FAOM), is aiming to provide ophthalmic disease screenings –incorporating diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and eyewear prescription– for 80,000 people living in remote rural areas of Cameroon, by 2016.

Cameroon’s First Lady, Mrs. Chantal Biya, is very kind: a high-profile international figure whose prestigious status …