Truly amazing: hens helping to teach basic agricultural management and entrepreneurial skills, thereby addressing hunger, unemployment and the lack of education and business skills. Here’s how. The Innovation Empowerment Programme and its chief project, One Hen Campaign, was founded in 2009 by 4 Kenyan students from the University of Nairobi who were inspired by their studies […]
What does mixing water with ownership and microfinance produce? Water.org and its initiative WaterCredit, a program that helps microfinance organizations get into the business of making water and sanitation loans. Loans? you ask. Why loans? Why not simply count on wealthy philanthropists to build wells, maintain pumps or provide sanitary services, doing that all over the world, thus […]
The aim of Un Kilo de Ayuda (One Kilo of Help) is to eradicate child undernourishment in Mexico. Founded in 1984 by entrepreneur Jose Ignacio Avalos Hernandez, Un Kilo de Ayuda is helping to cut the rate of malnutrition in hundreds of communities throughout Mexico. The non-profit social business provides nutritional surveillance, anaemia detection, nutritional […]
