Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Grantee, Latin America, Leadership, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Impact, Video storytelling on February 19, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Akilah Institute for Women,
Asante Africa Foundation,
Educate Lanka,
JAAGO Foundation through the Jolkona Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Medha,
Teach North Korean Refugees,
The School Fund.
By Suzanne Skees, Founder/Director Editor’s note: When you think of the small Caribbean island nation of Haiti, you might think of devastating earthquakes and hurricanes, crumbling infrastructure and intergenerational poverty. Or you might think of...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: BetterStories Limited, British Council, Coding, Computers, Kids Go Coding, Technology on January 28, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Akilah Institute for Women,
Medha,
The School Fund.
By Suzanne Skees JAAGO: Extending Quality Education for All Born into a lineage of poverty in the slums of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, Nila might have followed in her parents’ footsteps for a lifetime of arduous manual labor and chronic hunger. However,...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, Job Creation, Latin America, Middle East, MY JOB book and community, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories, U.S., Youth & Tagged as: 2016, Annual report on December 3, 2016.
Editor’s note: Winter brings snow, candles, family, and festivities–for some. For others, the long nights strike the loneliest chord and the cold days bring too little comfort and food. We join you, our friends and collaborators in our quiet, ongoing...Read more
Categorized as: Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth on November 26, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Batonga Foundation,
Destiny Foundation through Cents of Relief,
Jibu,
BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
Editor’s note: See how our job-creation partner Agora Partnerships builds jobs such as: recycling waste into fertilizer in Guatemala, distributing children’s books, increasing access to banking, and other startups that build jobs and strengthen the...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
