Special Interest: Women
Patience Mauhura has a message for women: Don't wait for your husbands. Think outside the box. Use your hands and your brains. It's time to work hard.
When we feed and empower women, women save their communities. How? Because women reinvest 90 percent of their resources back into their families and communities.
It's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and despite earning less, studies show that when women earn an income, they reinvest 90% of it back into their families and communities.
The four walls (and no roof) that Osman and his family call home is a building formerly used as a toilet. It took them four days to clean out. But still, his family is comparatively lucky.
With their homes destroyed and their husbands killed, the women and children who fled Boko Haram in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon have nowhere to turn.
For millions of girls around the world, going to school is anything but guaranteed. These two projects are making education a reality for hundreds of them.
World Food Program USA has been selected as a Shorty Social Good Award Finalist for its Women Are Hungrier campaign in the Best Multi-Platform Campaign category.
The Fund has awarded two organizations – World Assistance for Cambodia and Kakenya’s Dream – with grants to expand their programs and make an even greater impact on the lives of the women and girls they serve.
Ashley Baxstrom, Head of Donor Relations at WFP Zimbabwe, gives us the scoop on what it’s like to be an American Humanitarian in the field.
Armed conflict forced Leticia and her family to flee Colombia 20 years ago. Now, the crisis in Venezuela is forcing her to return to her country empty-handed. This is her story.
With an investment of $72 million, the Government is set to reach 100,000 women with livelihood training, behavior change education and food assistance.
Around 70% of Rwandans work in the agricultural sector, yet they lose vast amounts of their harvest before it ever reaches their plates or markets.