Economic Empowerment
Ry Lai Raises His Income with New Agriculture
When selling home-grown vegetables is your bread and butter, it’s no small thing to run out of the fertilizer that makes them grow big and juicy. Or for a pest to devour your spinach and cabbage crops. Or to have hang-ups getting freshly cut produce to market on time.
Gender Matters, More Than You Think
Women make up 70 per cent of the world's poor and two-thirds of the world’s 781 million illiterate adults. Which is not surprising since girls are less likely to attend school than boys.
Single Mom Rescues Children from Hunger
Somewhere in Mbirizi, a small village tucked in green hills in the very centre of Rwanda, a woman named Djalia stands proudly outside her home. Her small garden outside is watered, the cow, chickens, and rabbits are fed. Her six children and one grandchild are inside, they have all eaten. But things weren’t always this hopeful for Djalia.
Weaving a New Future
Feliciana, a mother of three from Acul, Guatemala, remembers her childhood dream. She always wanted to be an entrepreneur, experiencing the thrill of being her own boss and starting her own business. From a young age, she learned how to weave and embroider güipiles, traditional blouses. She knew that this could be a perfect business, but her lack of confidence held her back.
14 Questions You've Asked About Giving Goats
We realize that charity gift catalogues can be confusing—you’re buying a gift but you don’t receive a gift, but someone in North America gets the gift...but not really—they get a card, not a gift... Sooo, who gets your goat?
Saving her Family, Serving her Community
Savings and Loans groups empower rural people - especially women - to get a small business up and running.
Constructing Lives of Purpose
It’s not exactly “business as usual” for a handful of companies in British Columbia. While the bulk of companies prioritize the bottom line—balancing the numbers and cutting costs to make as much money as possible—Alderidge Construction, Stattonrock Design & Build, Balzer’s Brushing, and Ferguson Moving & Storage have gone to great lengths to inject meaning into their work.
A Peace-ful Start to the Dairy Cow Program
Cows have led to miracles in homes that had lost hope. A cow is a big undertaking that farmers in Uganda would have never tried 10 years ago. But with the right training and support from one another, they begin to see what they are capable of!
Empowering Women, Sustaining Life
FH Uganda has been an active development partner in Mbale for the last 17 years. We were particularly singled out for championing the needs of women and girls who are, in most cases, considered the most vulnerable in our Ugandan cultural context.
Sewing Co-Op Changes Lives in Rwanda
It's a fitting name for the individuals in Busekera who recently came together to form a sewing co-operative after receiving income-generating skills training from Food for the Hungry (FH) Rwanda. In addition to training, they also received sewing machines and start-up materials. This experience prompted 73 people to change their future.
Is Microfinance the Best Solution to Poverty?
Microfinance has become a standard pillar of the buzz-word arsenal in community development. But many of us, if we’re honest, struggle to understand what, exactly, it is and how all the variants work.