Girls’ Equality Project helps teenage girls stay in school.
Half the world’s population live as second class citizens. That’s the female half. Part of the reason is that girls get less education than do boys. And the reason for that is that when a girl reaches puberty, if she cannot deal with her period, she ....
Thinking about altruism
We’re all familiar with the cliché about the goldfish that doesn’t know it’s swimming in water. We’re less aware that we human beings swim in our own water, and we’re just as unaware as is the goldfish that we do so.
The question is, what is our water?
ODFL provides water in Nepal
ODFL, in partnership with the Little Sisters Fund, will help fund the construction of a concrete water reservoir and tap. Currently there are two villages that are fully dependent on a small ....
ODFL supports 300 girls in Ivory Coast
For International Day of the Girl, ODFL supported an outreach program to encourage girls in the Ivory Coast to stay in school. In some areas, less than 2% of girls finish secondary school. Most leave school to marry early or work. The program included local women ....
Classroom in Nicaragua
ODFL will work with their long-time partner in Nicaragua, Seeds of Learning, to build a new classroom for the remote village of La Pitilla. The local school currently only has one small classroom made from an aluminum shed.....