Success stories

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Female farmer leads fight on child labor

Leonia Etienne was elected as Chairperson of the Community Child Labor Committee in Chali Village, Tanzania.

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Mothers learn and earn

In Malawi ARISE has trained women in management skills, and helped create new businesses. The women have since established a Village Savings and Loan Scheme.

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A recipe for sustainable development

JTI’s TABLE FOR TWO supports school meal programs, solar power, irrigation, and community self-sufficiency.

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Committees advocates for ARISE

In the village of Itebulanda, a select group of active community members are helping to bring about changes and end child labor.

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“Education is important”

A refurbishment and upgrade of classrooms has helped farmer Musa Rashid Malale decide to send his children to the local school instead of sending them away.

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Resource training boosts learning

ARISE provides teachers with a support program that equips them with a diverse range of skills.

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One stop support

ARISE works with local experts to come up with the right solutions that protect children in those areas.

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Migungumalo Primary School

ARISE has significantly improved the quality of learning environments at Migungumalo Primary School and attendance levels have dramatically increased.

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Goat herder becomes best in class

A chance meeting and support from ARISE changed Anthony’s life forever.

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Teaching rights and obligations

Counseling parents often plays an important role in getting children to attend school.

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Malawi

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Celebrations help change children’s future

Zambian farmer attends ARISE celebrations and changes the future of his children forever.

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Mothers at Expotigre

Mothers trained in baking and business management by ARISE successfully sold their products at Expotigre 2013, a major agricultural expo in southern Brazil.

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Entrepreneurial builder

Fadsani was a child when we found him working. Too old to return to school, he received training in bricklaying and now has his own building company.

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Landcare training

ARISE coordinators and local leaders developed a landcare training course to teach young people new technical skills, and to make school attractive.

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Community training

ARISE teaches adult literacy and numeracy in the context of community development. It helps address important issues that can prevent child labor.

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Generous JTI employee

Yolanda Recarey from JTI, Geneva donated clothes, shoes and toys to pre-schoolers at Mawilo School, Zambia. Now all employees are getting involved.

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ARISE inspires farmer

An experienced farmer attended an ARISE theater performance and was convinced to remove his children from child labor and instead put them into education.

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New skills, new life

David Joseph completed ARISE training in carpentry and has since built a home for his family and provides for his siblings to attend school.

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Village savings & loans

In Malawi ARISE has trained women in management skills, and helped create new businesses. The women have since established a Village Savings and Loan Scheme.

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Academic achiever

Makinishi Mponela, 13, stopped working after school and attended our after school program. He’s now the top academic performer in his zone.

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Baking entrepreneurs

The ARISE Program training has helped two mothers set up bakery businesses, and earn income, and opened up new lifestyles for them both.

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Pascarina’s story

The story of Pascarina Lubinda, a 15 year old who lives in the Chitwa community, Zambia.

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New materials for schools

Learning environments are important. In Malawi we assessed the schools we support to determine their needs and provided new materials where we could.

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Knitting hope

Mentor mothers in Malawi are teaching needlecraft activities to children in their community and preventing them from working in the tobacco fields.

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New carpentry skills

Doris lost both her parents to HIV/AIDS when she was 11 and ended up in child labor. ARISE removed her and provided her training in carpentry.

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Improving teacher training

ARISE provided needs-based teacher training to 80 teachers from six ARISE schools in Malawi. Teacher confidence and student results are up.

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Mthyoka Village

Vulnerable households in Mthyoka received conditional grants from ARISE. The recipients initiated group and individual businesses and established a savings and loans scheme.