Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Age Africa, Empowerment, Gender issues, Lessenia Chikho, Malawi on December 6, 2014.
Editor’s note: A young woman who made it through school and into college for economics, shares her view on the gender power imbalance that prevails from birth in Malawi. This piece, by AGE Africa alumna Lessenia Chikho, who’s now studying economics at the...Read more
Categorized as: Grantee, Middle East, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Gaza, Palestine, Peace, Voice of Witness on November 29, 2014.
Editor’s note: Voice of Witness (VOW) is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering a more nuanced, empathy-based understanding of contemporary human rights crises. VOW has so far published thirteen titles in its series on a wide variety of social justice issues,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantee, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Gardens for Health International, Health, Nutrition, Rwanda, Thanksgiving on November 22, 2014.
Editor’s Note: This Thanksgiving as we celebrate friends, family, and food in the United States, we want to bring you to a different part of the world where the same holiday has significant meaning. Gardens for Health International (GHI), our grantee partner,...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Ecopreneurist, Elrhino, India, Social entrepreneurism, Tamul Plates, Upaya Social Ventures on November 20, 2014.
A quiet movement by young social entrepreneurs across north and east India finds ways to turn waste from plants and animals into jobs for the ultra poor. By Suzanne Skees for Ecopreneurist This article originally appeared on Ecopreneurist. Across India,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Cristi Hegranes, Democratic Republic of Congo, Global Press Institute, Journalism on November 15, 2014.
What started as a journalism job for Cristi Hengranes in Nepal turned into a mission to educate, employ, and empower women journalists in developing media markets all over the world. By Cristi Hegranes of Global Press Institute This post originally...Read more
