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Children Mining Copper, South DRC

My family’s generations of mineworkers have shown me the perils of child labour

The daughter of many generations of mineworkers, today Mirela supports World Vision’s advocacy work in ending child labour in the Democratic Republic of...

Children in silhouette stand beneath a blue sky in Africa

It takes more than laws to end violence against children

Mirela explains that it takes more than people knowing there is a law preventing violence against children to stop them beating their children, it takes...

Shame of violence

What’s it going to take?

Changing the deeply held beliefs that people have about why it’s ok to hit children will take everything we have, and maybe more, Mirela argues.

So many mothers in Zimbabwe and around the world live - and dream - for others. Carolina Varela/World Vision

Why dreaming our own dreams matters

In 2016, by pure chance, I started to give workshops on… Dream Management. At some point, I noticed that for many women it was difficult to formulate a...