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Meeting the demand of low-income women: Lifespring’s maternal care in India
LifeSpring Hospital in India is innovatively meeting the growing demand of low-income women who deserve affordable and dignified medical care. By focusing on a particular niche, maternal care, and different cost-saving strategies, this hospital provides maternal care at one-fifth of market...
Credit With Education: A Program by Freedom From Hunger
Freedom from Hunger created a curriculum for Credit with Education that directly addresses women's most pressing needs. The learning sessions are dialogue-based, incorporating new information with the knowledge and experience of the group members. The women don't need to read or write to learn. In...
ExxonMobil supports initiative for women and childrens's health and education in Angola
Save the Children and Africare, together with the Angolan Ministry of Education, are addressing the education and health needs of women and children in Kibala, in the Kwanza Sul province of Angola. The ExxonMobil Foundation is building on the enthusiastic support for the first schools built by this...
Watercredit Initiative: Connecting Micro-finance to Water and Sanitation
The WaterCredit Initiative is an initiative of WaterCredit Partners, an organisation with a long history of providing grants to assist communities with water supply and sanitation (WSS) services.
Partnership to help farmers in Africa increase crop yields and hope for the future
In 2005, Millennium Promise launched with a vision to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. As the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise believes that innovative partnerships and an...
Business-NGO partnership channels football shirts to children in South Africa
Football fans now have an opportunity to donate their shirts to help disadvantaged children in South Africa, thanks to World Emergency Relief UK's (WER) exciting new partnership with the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Launched by former English footballer, Mark Bright, the 'One Common Goal' campaign is...
The Centre for Self-Help Development: a Nepalese microfinance success story
Microfinance programs are helping reduce both urban and rural poverty across Nepal in what amounts to a micro-finance revolution.
From pastry seller to kiosk owner: a micro-credit success story in Ghana
Sinapi Aba Trust is an autonomous private non-governmental organization registered in 1994 as a company limited by guarantee. SAT provides microfinance services to entrepreneurs in small and micro enterprises in Ghana. One of the entrepreneurs who has been helped by SAT is Akosua who used to...
Enda inter-arabe: micro-credit in Tunisia
Enda inter-arabe is an international NGO operating in Tunisia. A member of ENDA Third-World based in Senegal, the organisation has been providing microcreditin Tunisia for 15 years. One of enda inter-arabe's borrowers is Nezha Toujani, who learned how to sew in a textile factory in Tunisia. ...
Uganda : Project Hope and Hard Work
The importance of microcredit in Uganda has soared in the recent decade and the instrument is now seen as one of the most effective tools to tackle poverty in the country.