Case Studies

STARS aims to showcase the work of its partners. By highlighting examples of how NGOs are addressing the challenges faced by their communities we hope to encourage best practice and stimulate knowledge-sharing more widely.

 

Human Stories

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Meet Saleha

This is the story of Saleha Khatun, a 23-year old...

 Supporting Organisation:
Impact Foundation Bangladesh

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Meet Helen

Helen has four children, three girls and a boy, all...

 Supporting Organisation:
ACE Africa

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Meet Janet

Janet when she first came to the Wema Centre Janet’s...

 Supporting Organisation:
The Wema Centre

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Meet Monsura

CSID’s field workers first identified Monsura when she was 13...

 Supporting Organisation:
Centre for Services and Information on Disability

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Meet Favour

When he was 8 years old, Favour was accused of...

 Supporting Organisation:
Stepping Stones Child Empowerment Foundation

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Meet Udo

Udo when he was found Udo John Akpadak is now...

 Supporting Organisation:
Stepping Stones Child Empowerment Foundation

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Meet Raju

Raju is a 12 year old boy from Chitwan district...

 Supporting Organisation:
Child Welfare Scheme Nepal

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Meet Rajesh

The story of Rajesh is the story of a street...

 Supporting Organisation:
Child Welfare Scheme Nepal

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Meet Abdillahi

Abdillahi is 6 years old and lives with his family...

 Supporting Organisation:
Disability Action Network (DAN)

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Meet Monica

Monica Kumari is a 17 year old trainee of Jyoti...

 Supporting Organisation:
Child Welfare Scheme Nepal

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Meet Michael

When Michael was one and a half years old, his...

 Supporting Organisation:
Action in the Community Environment (ACE)

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Meet Chandra

Chandra Kumari is a 31 year old mother who originally...

 Supporting Organisation:
Child Welfare Scheme Nepal

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Meet Meshak

Meshack lives with his mother and brother in a two...

 Supporting Organisation:
Action in the Community Environment (ACE)

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Meet Ashok

Ashok Tamang is a 13 year old boy from a...

 Supporting Organisation:
Child Welfare Scheme Nepal

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Meet Nalango

Traditional Maasai Circumcisers in Loita, Kenya In February 2008, Naserian,...

 Supporting Organisation:
S.A.F.E.

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Meet Atesde

Below Atesde tells her story in her own words. “My...

 Supporting Organisation:
Mums For Mums

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Meet Ajebnesh

When 23 year old Ajebnesh came knocking at Mums for...

 Supporting Organisation:
Mums For Mums

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Meet Joyce

It is difficult to believe that 14 years old Joyce...

 Supporting Organisation:
Wema Centre Trust

Wema, Mombassa, Kenya.

Meet Beatrice

22 years old Beatrice Sidi is a source of inspiration...

 Supporting Organisation:
Bwindi Community Hospital

Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda.

Meet Amos, Jackline and Rita

Jacqueline, Amos and Rita (middle) with Reverend Sam, at one...

 Supporting Organisation:
Bwindi Community Hospital

Restless Development Nepal

Meet Parbati And Shankar

Parbati and Shankar both work at Radio Dhading. They run...

 Supporting Organisation:
Restless Development Nepal

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Meet Hansa

Hansa (meaning Swan) is a bright young 22 year old...

 Supporting Organisation:
Sense International, India

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Meet Lipi Begum

Lipi Begum is 28 years old and lives in Paddabil...

 Supporting Organisation:
Impact Foundation Bangladesh

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Meet Srabon

“When my son Srabon was born with a cleft lip,...

 Supporting Organisation:
Impact Foundation Bangladesh

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Meet Biraj

Biraj is 11 years old. He has been living in...

 Supporting Organisation:
Nepal GoodWeave Foundation

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Meet Rajeev

Rajeev goes to Deurali School in Dhading district and is...

 Supporting Organisation:
Restless Development Nepal

Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID)

Meet Sumi

Sumi is 12 years old. At the age of just...

 Supporting Organisation:
Centre for Services and Information on Disability

Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID)

Meet Mahmuda

Mahmuda is just nine years old. She lives next to...

 Supporting Organisation:
Centre for Services and Information on Disability

The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. Kusum, 13 years old. Kusum is 13 years old. She has been living in the transit home for the last 3 years. Before being identified by a NRF inspector, she worked for a month in a factory where she used to weave the carpet and take care of the babies of the other weavers. Her father sold her to a contractor for $14 who sent her to the factory. Kusum lost her mother and has two brothers and a sister, She has no contact with her family anymore.Kusum is very good at school. She enjoys learning and studying. NRF would like to send her to LAB Secondary School so she can continue her education.When she becomes older, she wants to be a teacher.

Meet Kusum

Kusum is 13 years old and has been living in...

 Supporting Organisation:
Nepal GoodWeave Foundation

Organisational Stories

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Maternal Health at Bwindi Community Hospital

Maria is from the town of Nyarutuntu, a four-hour walk...

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Impact Foundation Bangladesh: Delivering Healthy Babies

Entering the house of Sova Das, Jhorna Rani finds Sova...

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Keeping Children Safe – The Opening of a New Day Centre

Thanks to STARS’ support, Nepal GoodWeave Foundation (NGF) opened a...

 Supporting Organisation:
Nepal GoodWeave Foundation

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Health Camps and Awareness Raising – Educating and Supporting Factory Workers in Nepal

Carpet weavers working in Nepal often come from the most...

 Supporting Organisation:
Nepal GoodWeave Foundation

Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda.

Bwindi Community Hospital: A Multidimensional Approach to Fighting Malaria

In Uganda, at least 50% of people who report illness...

1/8/2011 Stepping Stone Nigeria child empowerment foundation various publication and video material being use for adovcating and enlightenment on child rights, childcare and empowerment.

School Essay Competition Project

Stepping Stones (SSNCEF) is implementing a secondary school essay competition...

Stepping Stones Nigeria Child Empowerment Foundation (SSNCEF)

The Hope Alive Street Outreach Project

To mark the International Day for Street Children 2012, Stepping...

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ACE Africa – Improving Females School Attendance

At Kogelo Nyangoma primary school in South East Alego, Kenya,...

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ACE Africa – Eradicating Jigger Infestations

Even though Jigger infestations are generally thought of as a...

Bwindi Community Hospital

Bwindi’s Waiting Mother’s Hostel – The Story of Turyakira

Turyakira was 8 months pregnant when she decided to walk...

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S.A.F.E. Maa Programme – Challenging Traditional Ideas of Female Circumcision

Since 2008, S.A.F.E. Maa has been working effectively to challenge...

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Restless Development Nepal: Improving Access to Water in the Chepang Community of Nepal

This story is about the Chepangs, a semi-nomadic tribe of...

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Bwindi Community Hospital: Improving Access to Clean Water

7 year old Kyokusiima comes from a family living on...

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S.A.F.E., Kenya – Water Project

In 2011, S.A.F.E.. received a grant from Proctor and Gamble...

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Ba Futuru, Timor Leste

THE CHALLENGE Timor Leste’s long-standing history of repression and conflict...

Stepping Stones Nigeria Child Empowerment Foundation (SSNCEF)

Stepping Stones Nigeria Child Empowerment Foundation (SSNCEF)

THE CHALLENGE The combination of Christianity and traditional beliefs has...

The Wema Centre

The Wema Centre, Kenya

THE CHALLENGE The welfare of its street children, a high...

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arepp:Theatre for Life, South Africa

THE CHALLENGE A complex and multi-dimensional we of factors –...

Bwindi Community Hospital

Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda

THE CHALLENGE Bwindi Community Hospital cares for more than 100,000...

Restless Development Nepal

Restless Development Nepal

THE CHALLENGE Nepal has a largely agricultural economy and is...

Nepal GoodWeave Foundation

Nepal GoodWeave Foundation

THE CHALLENGE Throughout South Asia, 200,000 children are exploited as...

Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID)

Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID), Bangladesh

THE CHALLENGE In Bangladesh over 20% of the population is...

Manav Seva Sansthan (MSS), Uttar Pradesh, India.

Manav Seva Sansthan (MSS), India

THE CHALLENGE The trafficking of children from Nepal into India...

Pragya, India.

Pragya, India

THE CHALLENGE In the Himalayan region, many indigenous communities, cut...

Impact Foundation Bangladesh

Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB)

THE CHALLENGE An estimated 10 per cent of Bangladesh’s population...

Home from Home in Cape Town, South Africa.

Home from Home Trust, South Africa

THE CHALLENGE It is estimated that by 2015, as many...

Childline Kenya.

Childline Kenya

THE CHALLENGE Kenya witnesses high levels of child abuse, which...

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Africa Educational Trust (AET), Somaliland

THE CHALLENGE Not recognised as an independent state by the...

ACE in Bungoma, Kenya.

Action in the Community Environment (ACE) Africa, Kenya

THE CHALLENGE Nyanza province in western Kenya suffers from one...

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Prerana, India

THE CHALLENGE The trafficking and sexual exploitation of young women...

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Sense International (India)

THE CHALLENGE Deaf blindness – a combination of vision and...

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Child Welfare Scheme Nepal (CWSN)

THE CHALLENGE Nepal is one of the poorest countries in...

Sponsored Arts for Education (SAFE), Kenya. 2009

S.A.F.E, Kenya

THE CHALLENGE UNICEF estimates that 52% of the 18 million...

Mums for Mums in Mekelle, Tigray State, Ethiopia. 2009

Mums for Mums, Ethiopia

THE CHALLENGE Years of war, drought and famine have left...

Afrikids in Bolgatanga, Ghana. 2009

Afrikids, Ghana

THE CHALLENGE Northern Ghana is one of the poorest areas...