She is your sister, your daughter, your wife, your friend. She is family. It doesn’t matter where she is born… Every woman and girl deserves access to good food, clean water, and the same opportunities as their husbands, sons, and brothers. In Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia… We are working alongside women and girls, men and …

In northeastern Tanzania lies Lushoto, a tiny mountainside village perched in the lush, green heart of the Usambara Mountains. There, on the front porch of a small cottage, sat the Girl. She sat alone, early one morning, to watch the sun rise and the day unfold. The Girl had long brown hair, soft brown eyes, …

I first learned of Romania’s overcrowded and destitute orphanages in the early 1990s, as Western nations were realizing the implications of the domestic policies of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. When Ceausescu was overthrown and executed in 1989, there were more than 150,000 children in Romanian orphanages. This was a direct result of his insistence that …