Case Studies
This section describes how DFID activities are making a difference - stories told by people whose lives have been changed, and insights from DFID staff.
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09/01
Job fairs help Serbia's foster children go it alone
Last year for the first time ever in Serbia, a job fair was organised aimed specifically at young people emerging from care. Sinisa, 18, was one of the people to attend...
08/01
Bolivia's indigenous children learn lessons for life
Courses in computing, painting and decorating, and lockmaking are some of the options available to students at a new educational centre in the city of Sucre. Supported by DFID, the centre offers the chance of a decent career to children from poor, indigenous families.
08/01
Facts to fight AIDS in rural Brazil
An information blitz in Amazonas state is ensuring that more and more people get the information they need to protect themselves from HIV.
07/01
Women grocers show the way in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
In one West Bank village, a grocery shop run by local women is demonstrating an innovative way to tackle economic hardships.
06/01
A force for the disabled in Burkina Faso
In the world's second poorest country, how a pioneering aid agency is leading by example in the fight for disabled rights and opportunities.
05/01
Burkina women spice up their profits
Her skill at making the popular Burkinan spice soumbala helped 50-year-old Halimata raise a family of 10 single-handedly. Now, with help from DFID, Halimata is taking her business even further.
05/01
A centre of excellence for Bolivia's indigenous people
A training centre in one of Bolivia's most impoverished areas is giving some of its most disadvantaged people a fighting chance of a better life.
19/12
Making abortion safer in Nepal
Tough laws around abortion meant that, for a long time, Nepalese women seeking to terminate their pregnancies were forced to put their lives at stake and go underground. Now, with the law changed, DFID is helping to ensure that abortions take place in the right conditions.
28/11
AIDS survey highlights at-risk groups in Pakistan
Transgender sex workers like Naveen face the threat of HIV infection every day, which makes his and his co-workers' lack of knowledge about safe sex all the more dangerous.
26/11
Kicking the habit, fighting HIV in Vietnam
For a decade of his life Nguyen Van Son was at the mercy of his addiction to heroin. A user of dirty needles, HIV infection seemed an inevitability, even to Son himself. But thanks to a DFID-supported detoxification programme, Son has been clean for the past six months.
