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...grow the next generation of female teachers? The first answer, says Atmar, is to remove all other impediments to girls' going to school. That means constructing new buildings so classes aren't held in the open. In the meantime, unconventional inducements can help. In a successful program in some rural areas, girls are given a free ration of oil and flour at the end of every month. This encourages their poor families to keep sending them to school. Increasing teachers' salaries would convince more parents that their daughters should take up the profession. Teachers with high school diplomas earn...
...Managua of today still has the feeling of a rural backwater that hopes one day to grow up to be a capital city. No building is taller than 10 stories. There are still more trees than buildings, and going "downtown" means going to the Metrocentro shopping mall...
...such dreamy names as the Beijing Military and Civilian Matchmaking Service and the Tianjin Municipal Trade Union Matchmakers' Association. The imbalance of genders brought on by the single-child rule (many parents opted to keep only a male baby) has also led to a desperate demand for matchmakers among rural men, opening the door to unscrupulous brokers who con women into unions...
Fitzsimmons said the schools focused on rural and urban areas in four trips during the month of November. Those trips included one targeting the South and one to the Mid-Atlantic. The events drew large crowds of students, including a total of 1,300 during one trip to Washington...
...difficult. As a result, Bowman said the group is identifying organizations that are run by Harvard affiliates. One such group is Orphan Wisdom, a non-profit started by Elizabeth J. A. Siwo-Okundi, a student at Harvard Divinity School, which helps run an orphanage and school in rural Kenya. The aid effort is complicated by the sensitivity of the political situation, which sometimes spills over into the Kenyan community at Harvard, Bowman said. “When the violence in Kenya began, we started to have friction in the group, but we were able to draw on our connections...