The ‘Avon Ladies’ of Africa
A successful program from Living Goods in Uganda trains village women to sell medicines, fortified foods and other important goods
A successful program from Living Goods in Uganda trains village women to sell medicines, fortified foods and other important goods
In many parts of the world, not owning one’s own land is more directly correlated to poverty than other factors
Finally, the right to own land in their own name has begun to change the way thousands of very poor
Physical illnesses trigger and exacerbate poverty because costs are too high to treat them. The Associação Saúde Criança (now known
Organizations like Health Leads are mobilizing volunteers in hospitals to connect low-income families with human services which address social factors
The United States now has a variety of federally-supported nutrition programs, but the health care system remains disconnected from the
Fundación Paraguaya is helping drastically redefine the way that poverty is identified, defined, and addressed in order to aid their
In Colombia, students in classrooms make decisions democratically. The result has been higher rates of student involvement and achievement. Fundación
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