For years, the Moraru* siblings didn’t have a stable family or a place to call home. Their respective fathers abandoned them, and their mother...

Renosha* was 15 years old when her mother died. As a young girl living in Sri Lanka, she didn’t know who she would live with next...

Amahle and Siyanda, like many children, find great joy in the simplest things. For Amahle, a 12-year-old girl, it’s playing netball with her team at...

When girls receive an education, an entire society benefits. But barriers like poverty, teen pregnancy, and child labor may keep about 20 million....

Once a month, a woman in East Texas sends a letter to a little girl in Sri Lanka. The two are separated by oceans, continents, decades...

Like most people with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, Shadrack Mvelase receives a disability pension. But it is not enough for a single father raising...

May is National Foster Care Month. CERI is part of the global movement to grow foster care around the world. Here’s the story of one mom making...

For Daniela, being a single mother comes with the tough decision of what to prioritize: money or food? Both take time—and time is hard to...

Nakeem*, a Rohingya living in a refugee settlement in India, grew up in a society where men take care of matters outside the home and...

Like many Sri Lankan women, Shanthaledchumi married at a young age. Though she was legally a child when she became pregnant...