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
Categorized as: Asia, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Culture, India, Laurel Curran, Upaya Social Ventures on November 8, 2014.
Laurel Curran works with our job-creation partner Upaya Social Ventures. She traveled for the first time to India and takes us with her to experience the food, culture, and people who had a profound impact on her there. By Laurel Curran from Upaya Social...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Bill Souders, Freedom from hunger, Mobile banking, Silicon Valley, Social entrepreneurism, Technology on November 1, 2014.
Editor’s note: Bill Souders joined Freedom from Hunger in 2014 as Vice President of Technology, Strategy, and Integration. He is responsible for driving technology planning and implementation to support programs and general business operations. Previously based...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Career training, High school, HIV, Karimu International, Microloans, Primary school, Tanzania on September 21, 2014.
Editor’s note: This cover photograph shows Bacho Village members of the first local microcredit group. These members, all HIV positive, shared a collective loan of $500 to invest in chickens. Two years later, they’ve paid back the first loan, expanded...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Child Hope International, Haiti, Homelessness, Huffington Post, Intergenerational poverty, The School Fund on August 23, 2014.
Principal Ivens (R) and students gather on the porch to talk about school and the future. Editor’s note: Too many teenagers live in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti. They came here to make money to support their families, but their real...Read more
