MAZAR-E-SHARIF CITY, Balkh Province – All eyes in the class are focused intently on the model of the human skeleton hanging loosely in the science laboratory. There is pin-drop silence challenged only...
Date: May 11, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KABUL CITY – The school bell chimes and students make their way to the classrooms. They are dressed in winter uniforms, bundled up in blazers and woolens. In the classrooms, teachers hurry students to...
Date: March 27, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Today we celebrate World Water Day around the world. In Marseille, young people are coming together to promote innovative projects by entrepreneurs for recycling water in households, agriculture,...
Date: March 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
SANGMOM VILLAGE, Daykundi Province – Dozens of girls in robin egg-blue school uniforms and white headscarves are running around the schoolyard of Zainabia Sanmom Girls High School. A volleyball match between...
Date: March 1, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
NEW DELHI, February 23, 2017 – The Government of India, the Government of Jharkhand and the World Bank today signed a US$ 63 million credit agreement for the Tejaswini: Socioeconomic Empowerment of...
Date: February 23, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In April 2016, President Jim Kim announced that the World Bank Group (WBG) would invest $2.5 billion over five years in education projects directly benefiting adolescent girls (aged 12-17). This...
Date: October 11, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Children attending the Ananda Schools in Bangladesh look like almost any other adolescents and pre-adolescents around the globe. They are energetic and playful with one another, and, alternatively, attentive...
Date: October 6, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
HERAT CITY, Herat Province – Computer science teacher Freshta Mohammadi, 25, stands in front of a class of 11th grade students at Mawlana Hatefi Girls’ High School. As the students look at a projected...
Date: September 20, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KANDAHAR CITY, Kandahar Province – The school bell rings at Safia Ama Jan Girls High School and students exit their classrooms to spend the break at the courtyard. As the students enter the courtyard and...
Date: July 12, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
To be implemented in 17 districts of Jharkhand and benefit about 680,000 adolescent girls and young women WASHINGTON, June 21, 2016 – The World Bank Board today approved the US$ 63 million Tejaswini:...
Date: June 21, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The school semester is reaching its end and white uniform-clad students anxiously await the pink report cards to be handed out by their teachers. The scene takes place in the Sujatha Balika Vidyalaya School,...
Date: May 18, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2016—World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today announced that the World Bank Group would invest $2.5 billion over 5 years in education projects that directly benefit adolescent...
Date: April 13, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KABUL CITY, Kabul Province – Negina, 18, is focused on becoming the best pianist and orchestra leader in Afghanistan. She is working towards her goal at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM),...
Date: September 2, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Experience or personality? Which is more important in a job interview? Until very recently, employers most valued a job candidate’s knowledge of his work area. An individual with more studies...
Date: June 15, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The area outside of Sirohi, Rajasthan in India, is littered with small tribal villages made of sandstone bricks that seamlessly blend into the land that surrounds them. The men, many with wrinkles so profound...
Date: June 1, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2015 – Adolescent girls from extremely poor households in Zambia will now have an opportunity to access secondary education while poor and vulnerable women will be economically empowered...
Date: May 22, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
JALALABAD CITY, Nangarhar Province – Not long ago, the 420 students of the Afghan Mena Elementary School had to study in an open lot because their school did not have enclosed classrooms. Today, students...
Date: May 13, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2015 – The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$23.2 credit and US$11.6 grant for women and adolescent girls’ empowerment to expand their access to...
Date: April 23, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
After years of sustained focus on its public education system, Djibouti has made significant progress in school enrollment but still faces a number of challenges. Net student enrollment at the primary...
Date: February 4, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, December 18, 2014—The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$170.2 million for women and adolescent girls to expand their access to reproductive, child and...
Date: December 18, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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