Education

In Reading for Ourselves we meet women and men who are learning to read and write. They live in towns and villages in South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Bolivia.

Nicaragua is a poor and underdeveloped country about the size of England and Wales. This report is based on Oxfam’s experience of over twenty years work there. The new Nicaraguan approach to development, based on the needs of the poor majority and the participation of ordinary people, offers real hope to the poor.

Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]