Pregnant girls at the age of 13 or grandmothers at the age of 26 are of no surprise in Colombian slums. In the poorest social class, violence against women is especially striking: rape, sexual abuse or sex trafficking of minors happen on everyday basis. Teenage pregnancies are extremely prevalent. Colombia is a country that experienced a brutal 50-years long civil war as well as ruthless drug cartels. The long escalation of violence has caused millions of Colombian people to suffer from extreme poverty. The situation in Colombia has forced over 7 million people to leave their homes. Most of them now live in slums. Such a situation is the most difficult for women, who are additionally victims of violence and stigmatization resulting from a characteristic to Latin America machismo culture. Dominika Kulczyk, the President of the Kulczyk Foundation, together with Catalina Escobar reaches out to those inhabitants of slums that are most in need, offers them a chance to change their lives. Ca
In February 2016, the world was gripped by the photo of a starved-to-death boy, accused of witchcraft and banished by his family and community. The two-year-old was extremely emaciated. He was living on the streets for 8 months. He was eating scraps thrown by passers-by. In order to help children like him, Dominika Kulczyk and her Foundation reaches out to African Benin. In many African countries, thousands of children who are claimed witches are abandoned, tortured or even murdered. An ethnic group Bariba, living in the northern part of Benin, is especially brutal in this regard. According to the Bariba's tradition, child-witches are those that have been "wrongly born"; for instance, those born in the breech position, with their head down or with tooth buds. The Bariba people don't believe that such a child can be "cured" - the tradition is ruthless: they have to die. 22-year-old Djamila was one of such children. She was miraculously saved by her aunt and
Middle Eastern royals , Indian businessmen and tech billionaires are just some of the buyers purchasing a trophy home in Britain s capital, according to auction house Sotheby s.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan acquired the house in Chelsea in November last year via a shell company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and based in Jersey.