Oct 17, 2023 | Education, Income, Indonesia, Mawa Village, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development
Pivoting to Ducks! This has been a hard year for the Mawa community. Thousands of pigs, the villagers’ primary income source, were wiped out by the African Swine Flu. 60% of village men are now separated from their families because they needed to go find work...
Oct 17, 2023 | Africa, Attir Village, Education, Food, Income, Kenya, Sustainable Development
Two Villagers Spark a Community Movement Farming is the backbone of Kenya’s economy and is a source of income for most Kenyans. In Attir Village, most of the people are pastoralists but since drought hit them for two seasons they had to find new ways of adapting...
Oct 17, 2023 | Income, MH Village*, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development
Villagers Use Locally Resourced Wood to Rebuild Myat Hlae villagers worked hard to rebuild the Early Childhood Care Development Center that was destroyed by the recent cyclone. The Transformational Community Development (TCD) committee raised funds locally and...
Oct 17, 2023 | Income, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development, Yone Taw 2 Village
Loan Program Benefits 150+ People It has been tough to make a living in Myanmar since the pandemic and military coup. The community we worked with suffered the impacts of the events over the past three years. But the Yone Taw villagers were positive about their...
Oct 17, 2023 | Africa, Income, Naki Ouest Village, Sustainable Development, Togo, Wellness
Saving Money & Getting Healthy with Organic Fertilizer In May 2023, a partner introduced and donated a specially formulated organic fertilizer to some of our Transformational Community Development (TCD) villages across four West African countries. Batemone and...
Oct 1, 2023 | Africa, Dida Hara Village, Ethiopia, Food, Income, Sustainable Development
Success Grows Success For many years, we used to travel very long distances just to buy vegetables for our personal consumption. Now, we buy from our village because of the agricultural sustainability project that we are a part of. I am part of the association...