Letters from Lesotho
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TOMS Shoes “One-for-One” Hits Home with Ottawa-based Charity
Help Lesotho Achieves Accreditation from Imagine Canada’s Standards Program
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Please direct all media inquiries to:
Kate Lambert
Senior Project Officer
kate@helplesotho.org
613-369-5964
Help Lesotho in the News
Fighting Against Gender-Based Violence
Young Basotho men and women are standing up and speaking out against gender-based violence and early and forced child marriage in an exciting new way. "GIRL4ce" is a Help Lesotho youth-led movement for POSITIVE
Event Recap: The Forgotten Kingdom
Help Lesotho presents the “The Forgotten Kingdom”, an award-winning film by Andrew Mudge that tells the story of a young man reluctantly embarking on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho (southern Africa) to
Event Recap: Menstrual Cycle
Help Lesotho gives new meaning to "Menstrual Cycle" “Menstrual Cycle” was a fabulously fun spin class for a cause hosted by Help Lesotho at Wheelhouse Cycle Studio in Ottawa, Ontario. Participants cycled up a sweat
Interview with CKCU
Founder and Executive Director of Help Lesotho, Peg Herbert during an interview with CKCU. "She'll be telling us about how this remarkable initiative came about, and the truly beneficial effects that are totally changing lives.
Reusable Pads Restore Girls’ Dignity
That ‘alternative’, for many from disadvantaged backgrounds like Ms Selloane, was to fall pregnant. Ms Selloane said there was that myth among most young girls in the Leribe community that pregnancy cured period pains. “I
From Witches to Heroes
“One of the ugliest forms of discrimination that older people are suffering relates to witchcraft accusations and their consequent exposure to degrading and inhumane treatment, in most cases, without being given the opportunity for a
News About Lesotho
The South African Drought
Water-rich Lesotho has long lubricated South Africa’s burgeoning population, but when drought struck in 2016, it was the residents of Katse village who suffered. Read more about the effects of
Lesotho: The worst drought in a lifetime
When the Ntsoa family realized they were not going to get any harvest from their land in southwestern Lesotho this season, Mathabo Ntsoa’s daughter had to leave to find work
King Commends Help Lesotho
An article written in Sesotho from the Informative News Co. Read the entire article here.