Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Education, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling, Youth & Tagged as: Brienne, Empowerment, Indonesia, International development, Korea, Malawi, Opportunity, Teaching on May 23, 2015.
Editor’s note: This month, the entire Skees clan proudly celebrates the graduation of Brienne’s younger sisters, Teresa and Victoria, from Montgomery County High School in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. As Brienne travels the world to teach, her sister Alexandra...Read more
Categorized as: Grantee, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: "forgotten boys", Charity, Donations, Honduras, Hope 4 Honduran Children, International development, Karen Godt, Legacy, Lessons learned, Service travel on April 4, 2015.
At times our heart is in the right place but our methods of changing the world are flawed. The founder of the Hope for Honduran Children Foundation shares her thoughts on how to strengthen humanitarian help abroad. By Karen Godt, Executive Director of Hope for...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling, Youth & Tagged as: Akilah Institute, Ayla Schlosser, College, Empowerment, High school, Resonate Workshops, Rwanda on January 24, 2015.
Editor’s note: The founder of Resonate, an organization focused on catalyzing women’s leadership, describes how storytelling can be used as a powerful tool to help women build confidence, increase their sense of identity, and connect with other women. By...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Latin America, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Failure, India, Kate Cochran, Kiva, Lessons learned, Social entrepreneurism, Vittana on December 31, 2014.
Photo courtesy of CoWomen on Unsplash. Editor’s note: I’ve made mistakes every day in the last ten years on the job at SFF, and I’ve seen my share of failures in the social-sector field . . . but I’ve never seen compassion and tenacity in the...Read more
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
