Categorized as: Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Ecuador, Microloans on September 18, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Firelight Foundation,
Grameen Foundation,
Save the Children,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
By Amelia Kuklewicz, Ecuador Program Manager, Freedom from Hunger Editor’s note: Happy 70th birthday to our longtime, deeply valued partner, Freedom from Hunger, whose small staff of less than 50 strives to end hunger through financial empowerment,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Cookstoves, Environment, Nairobi, Slums, Solar power on August 13, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Agora Partnerships,
Destiny Foundation through Cents of Relief,
Freedom From Hunger,
Grameen Foundation,
Hope for Honduran Children,
Jibu,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
By Suzanne Skees This story was originally published on Huffington Post. Read the original version here. Chronic unemployment in Kenya leaves 68 percent of youth without a stable income. In the slums, young men and women struggle to find a source of income....Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: The BOMA Project on July 9, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Firelight Foundation,
Freedom From Hunger,
Grameen Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Upaya Social Ventures.
Editor’s note: Scroll down to watch a video about Mekona, who never had a chance to attend school but has learned business and financial skills while building her business with our partners in rural Kenya at The BOMA Project. With three children to support, and...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories & Tagged as: Elections, Empowerment on June 17, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Akilah Institute for Women,
Asante Africa Foundation,
Grameen Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Resonate.
Editor’s note: You think you have challenges as a women, either running for president or voting for one? Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also voting this November, are banding together to demand greater government representation in a nation with...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Our Partners, Stories, Youth on June 4, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Asante Africa Foundation,
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Batonga Foundation,
Cooperative for Education,
Hand in Hand,
JAAGO Foundation through the Jolkona Foundation,
The School Fund,
Tomorrow’s Youth Organization.
Editor’s Note: Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti) is a grantee partner of the Skees Family Foundation. Our Program Director, Sally Skees-Helly, recently met founder Nedgine Paul and learned more about her inspiration and drive to create real change in Haiti’s...Read more
