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Violence is so common in Brazil's favelas that online retailers refuse to deliver to addresses there. One young man who tried to buy something online and was refused decided to take matters into his own hands and developed an app. That was successful and has created jobs for residents and helped out businesses in the favela, too.
In Zimbabwe, the rate of child sexual abuse and the number of unwanted pregnancies among young girls has increased significantly following the introduction of strict COVID-19 curfews. Authorities are estimating thousands of unplanned pregnancies among schoolgirls. Often they weren't allowed to return to school to get an education. That has now changed!
Children from La Reunion were brought to children's homes under the guise of getting them a good education — which most never received. Can they find closure by traveling to the island? Young girls in Zimbabwe who fell pregnant during the pandemic used to get kicked out of school, but are now being encouraged to return. And how a delivery app changes the game in Brazil's favelas.
Between the 1960s and 1980s, France took some 2,000 children away from their families in the overseas territory of La Reunion. They were brought to France and promised a good education, but most never received that. Instead, they had to work as farmhands and were hit. Decades later, some are searching for family members on the island. And they hope reconnecting with their past will help them heal.