Letting (Some of) India’s Women Own Land
Finally, the right to own land in their own name has begun to change the way thousands of very poor
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Finally, the right to own land in their own name has begun to change the way thousands of very poor
In 2016, the city of Rochester, NY partnered with Kiva—a crowd-funded microlender—to serve aspiring or established small-business owners. Their partnership
An intensive, long-term approach to end poverty, piloted by an NGO in Bangladesh, has shown serious promise since its start
Though poverty rates are dropping worldwide, the ‘ultrapoor’ tend to stay where they are. BRAC works to break the poverty
Building Markets, an NGO, has connected Haitian businesses with foreign NGOs who can funnel humanitarian aid through the local suppliers
Mangroves can store up six times more carbon than an area equal to the Amazon rainforest. However, they are rapidly
APOPO, an international nonprofit, has trained Gambian pouched rats to sniff out landmines in countries across the world. These rats
In Cambodia, demining rats have been trained to sniff out land mines, effectively identifying unexploded materials like landmines, bombs, and
Cambodia is littered with unexploded deadly land mines, posing a huge threat to people even decades after the conflict. In
Building on the widespread use of mobile phones in Kenya, Angaza has developed applications to provide people with financial services.