Jan 26, 2026 | Income, Indonesia, Mawa Village, Southeast Asia
As the Mawa Transformational Community Development (TCD) program comes to a close this year, one of the village committee members, Nathan*, shared with the GHNI team about his vision for the community moving forward. Nathan has been pondering how to make the changes...
Jan 23, 2026 | Indonesia, Mawa Village, Southeast Asia
The Transformational Community Development (TCD) project in Mawa comes to a close after several years of the GHNI team helping the community to understand the TCD principles of pulling themselves out of poverty. The village still has a ways to go and the work is not...
Aug 27, 2024 | Income, Indonesia, Mawa Village, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development
No Longer Relying on Outside Help A handful of families from the Mawa community have taken the lead in pioneering the business of raising and selling ducks. Initially, due to the extreme need for a source of income in Mawa, it was necessary for GHNI to subsidize...
Aug 27, 2024 | Indonesia, Mawa Village, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development, Water
Organizing Themselves Brought Change “In all the many years we’ve spent trekking to the river to draw water, I never imagined that someday we would have a water tank right outside our house,” said Umi as she reflected on recent changes in her...
Jul 15, 2024 | Income, Indonesia, Mawa Village, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development
Ducks Are Delightful! The Mawa community’s duck program has now been running for three months. They have begun selling the young ducks but will keep the mother ducks in order to sustain future production for continued Income Generation. Now that they have learned...
Jul 15, 2024 | Income, Indonesia, Polewali Village, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development
Quietly Working Towards a Brighter Future This month, the Transformational Community Development (TCD) training team sat down with Husni to catch up on how social interaction in the Polewali Villages has been improving. Since the beginning of the TCD project,...
