Author: Todd MacMillan

"It is important to involve young people as they understand their problems like no one else and have ideas for how to solve them. They are curious and confident and capable of doing anything" Shweta Technology Enabled Girl Ambassador (TEGA) from Jaipur, India International Day of the Girl For International Day of the Girl MCN Foundation is highlighting the work of Girl Effect. Girl Effect reaches more than 20 million...

An Update From EEF Ethiopia EEF launched their new website: EthiopianEducationFoundation.org in December with great success. They can now showcase their work to new audiences, and their stories (on average two per week) provide student sponsors and donors with regular updates about their program. If you have not visited yet, please take a look. Here are just some highlights of the last three months: Two EEF students, Asresach...

EEF Gets a Wonderful Surprise! "Hello, do you remember me?” Berihun Former EEF Student EEF Students Excel It’s an amazing feeling when you can experience an incredible success story first-hand.  Back in 2007 we came across Berihun. He was living in a 2mx1m makeshift corrugated iron hut in Addis Ababa all alone, in terrible conditions, without electricity and without any running water. The year before, aged 12, he had left his...

"Unfortunately, the center on the Plateau was attacked by an armed group just after Neema and I left…" Paul Freedman Documentarian MCN CONGO Amanda Valeur, Founder of MCN Healthcare and MCN Foundation, arranged to send award winning documentary filmmaker Paul Freedman to the Congo. This was to film the work of Neema Namadamu and Hero Women Rising. https://www.herowomenrising.org/ Communication from the field by Paul Freedman: Hi Amanda,I hope this finds you well. ...