Schoolchildren jump rope at Ecole Marie Dominique Mazzarello in Port-au-Prince on June 18, 2010. The students returned to classrooms built with USAID assistance in May. Read More...
In the hours and days after the Haitian earthquake that would later be called unprecedented in its reach and destruction, USAID poured staffers and millions of dollars into a full-on response to help save lives and alleviate suffering of the Haitian people.
Angela Rucker
The machine operator is not what one might expect: a strapping young man or seasoned construction worker. Instead, Judette Leurbours, a single mother of four, is one of the women driving the rubble removal progress in Nazon.
Joanna Stavropoulos
- Insights from Administrator Rajiv Shah
SPOTLIGHT ON HAITI
- The Most Resilient People on Earth
- Earthquake Responders Address Immediate Suffering
- Mangoes and Tees: the Next Phase of Haitian Recovery?
- Mobile Banking: Will It Transform Haiti's Transactions?
- 2010—The Year in Review
- Voices from the Field
- With a Roof Over Their Heads…
- Your Voice: Dèyè Mòn Gen Mòn
WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT
- Why Women?
- Cambodia's HIV/AIDS Efforts Put Women in the Driver's Seat
- Combating Early Marriage from the Ground Up
- Interview with Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg
- Yemeni Communities Unite Against Child Marriage
- Women Scientists Break Molds in Mozambique
- The Superwomen Rebuilding Haiti
- Giving Women More Credit
- U.S. Moves to Fulfill U.N. Resolution on Women, Peace, and Security
ONLINE EXTRAS
- Winning Photo Captures Young USAID Aid Recipients in Sudan
- Carp Comeback Is Nod to Uganda's Revamped Aquaculture Industry
- Guinea Holds First Democratic Election
The second FrontLines photo contest is over and the top prize goes to Karl Grobl, a photojournalist hired by Education Development Center Inc. (EDC) to document its USAID-funded programs in Sudan.
Once teeming with native carp, the African Great Lakes provided jobs and a source of protein to residents. Overfishing and the introduction of non-native fish for the past 60 years have devastated the carp population, causing a collapse of fisheries and a near disappearance of carp from their former habitats.
Cheryl L. Wojciechowski and Alek A. Hartwick
"This year," she says, "we can teach more students. We used to have enough classrooms for 1,200 students, but now we have space for more than 1,300 students and an extra room for computers."
Ben Edwards
Yemen is one of 20 "hot spot" countries for child marriage, a conservative Muslim nation where a seventh of all girls are married by age 14 and nearly half by age 17. In rural districts, girls as young as 9 are often betrothed. Most "hot spot" countries are clustered in central Africa, with other pockets in Southeast Asia and Central America.
Derek Lee
