The Kayayo is the name given the thousands of women and girls from Ghana’s barren north who travel south to find work as porters in city markets. They make the journey to escape a place where meagre subsistence farming is the primary occupation.

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Bosco Volunteer Action (BOVA) is the overseas volunteering organisation of the Salesians of Don Bosco in the UK, a Catholic Religious order. It offers placements for adults to serve the young and the poor, living and working alongside Salesian communities around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear colleagues,

Please read a web-feature at the following link: http://www.unicef.org/somalia/reallives_2572.html.

It is the story of a newly-recruited UNICEF staffer who in 2005 returned from the Diaspora to work in Bossaso, Northeast Somalia.

regards, Robert Kihara, Communication and External Relations Section, UNICEF Somalia.

For more information on UNICEF Somalia visit: http://www.unicef.org/somalia/

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