ZIDINDI, SOUTH AFRICA -- A few days after providing basic health advice to a young mother who’d just given birth, community health worker Ncedisa Paul received a frantic phone call from the ...

As for celebrities adopting poor children from Africa, Pertman said there was no reason to be critical or cynical. "They're doing what more Americas all over the country are doing — adopting ...

Children under 5 years of age in Africa are much more likely to die as a direct result of poor health linked to air pollution, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, increased family size, and ...

Study: Poor African children face malnutrition risk, while rich kids become obese by University of Birmingham A visual representation of the double burden of child malnutrition across the region.

Surely this is the question that should have preoccupied every administration seeking to build a just society in the more than two decades since we attained liberation. Yet today, a black child in ...

Poor African children face malnutrition risk, whilst rich kids become obese Peer-Reviewed Publication. University ... With slow progress to tackle child undernutrition in Africa, ...

On June 16 each year, Africa commemorates the Day of the African Child. It is a day marked by grief, pride, and an urgent call to reflection. It remembers the bravery of schoolchildren in Soweto, ...

Explore the financial challenges South African parents face in providing quality education for their children, highlighting the importance of education as a survival strategy amidst economic ...

In Soweto, South Africa, on June 16, 1976, about 10,000 black school children marched in a column more than half a mile long, protesting the poor quality of their education and demanding their ...