What was new in 2004?

December 29, 2004: Our team responds to the Tsunami disaster!

December 23, 2004: 10,000+ attend The Hunger Project Bangladesh Animator Reunion

December 17-19, 2004: The Hunger Project-India hosts Ministerial Roundtable on Capacity Building in Panchayati Raj

December 15, 2004: Launching The Hunger Project Ethiopia - National Strategic Forum held in Addis Ababa.

December 10, 2004 - International Human Rights Day - Three Women-run Banks Achieve Government Recognition

December 1, 2004 - World AIDS Day. Impact of our strategy in Africa. THP-Bangladesh marks day across Bangladesh.

November 29-December 3, 2004: Photos from our work in Malawi

November 19-21, 2004: New Hunger Project Strategy Launched in Mexico

November 16-20, 2004: Jennifer Thomson, Senior Program Officer for AWFFI, visited THP-Senegal to evaluate the AWFFI program in the Epicenters.

Girl Child Event a Huge Success! See the highlights, watch the video and  Read the speech by Joan Holmes.

Updates to the Global Board - written reports by Joan Holmes, and reports on AWFFI, Benin, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Senegal and Uganda.

November Newsletter - Highlights in a Year of Expansion: UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force, First Latin America Strategy Meeting, Impact of HIV/AIDS and Gender Inequality Workshop, Africa Woman Food Farmer Initiative, Nation Girl Child Day Keeps Growing, Sarojini Naidu Prize a Triumph, Mobilized Villages Survive Floods, Year-end Investing, and Legacy Circle

October 9, 2004: African Woman Food Farmer Initiative celebrates 5th anniversary by starting up in Ethiopia.

October Newsletter - Celebrating the Girl Child: Join us in New York!, Investor/Activists Seize Opportunity to Expand Our Movement, Make Plans to Attend the "Global Everyone" Meeting, and Milestone in Latin America: Joan Holmes Meets President Fox.  

October 2, 2004: Fourth Annual Sarojini Naidu Prize for Best Reporting on Women and Panchayati Raj presented in New Delhi.

October 1, 2004: Wall Street Journal features investor trips.

September 30, 2004: National Girl Child Day celebrated across Bangladesh.

September 29, 2004: Winners announced for the Sarojini Naidu Prize.

September 2004: Ghana Completes Third Epicenter Building,   Benin Hunger Project Expansion, 1,000 Participate in Vision, Commitment & Action Workshop In Burkina Faso

September 20, 2004- Opening our new website for policy briefs, as Joan attends UN Hunger Task Force meetings in Bellagio and John Coonrod is interviewed on the BBC (150 kbps Real video).

September 15, 2004 - Dalai Lama sends message for the Fourth Sarojini Naidu Prize to be presented on Gandhi's Birthday, October 2 in New Delhi.

September Newsletter - The Girl Child: The Future Depends on Her, As a Global Family, We do a Bad Job of Taking Care of Girls, The Hunger Project Improves the Lives of Girls, and Join Us in New York on November 6-7!

August 17, 2004: Slideshows of flood relief efforts in Rupganj, Bangladesh August 4 and Manikganj August 8, and Barogram August 12.

August 8, 2004: Listen to the investor team call and see the pictures from the Latin America meetings in Mexico with Joan Holmes and our delegation of investors - including the Latin American Strategy Conference and Meeting with President Fox.

August Newsletter - Latin America: Empowering Indigenous Women, Peru: Fourth Continental Meeting, Bolivia: Toward a New National Vision, Mexico: Animators and Catalysts, and Financial Family Campaign Completes First Phase.  

August 3, 2004: Bangladesh flood updated reports and photos from yesterday and today. Special: Slideshow from Goran.

July 2004: Global Office Visit to Uganda: Inauguration of the New Iganga Epicenter & THP-Uganda’s First Women’s Rural Bank at the Wakiso Epicenter

July 29, 2004: Update on flood relief action in Bihar, India and Bangladesh.

July 26, 2004: The Hunger Project-Bangladesh responds to worst flooding in 15 years.

July 17, 2004: Over 1,000 Celebrate the Inauguration of the Second Sub-Epicenter in Malawi!

July 6, 2004: Inauguration of our office in Ethiopia.

July Newsletter - A National Movement to End Hunger in India, Leading the Women's Leadership Workshop, Our Strategy in India, and Heroes of the Financial Family Campaign: Trudy and Andy Anderson.  

June Newsletter - Partner Countries Fund the End of Hunger, Creating The Hunger Project Everywhere, and Update on the Financial Family Upgrade Campaign.

June 4 - Powerpoint presentation by John and Supriya on the latest from India.

May: Investors inspired by progress in Senegal!

May Newsletter - Investors Fuel Expansion, Investors Visit Bangladesh, Joan Holmes Appointed to UN Hunger Task Force, and Financial Family Upgrade Campaign.

April 18: Annual Board Meeting - Report of the President and written updates from every program country.

Publication of the 2003 Annual Report with independent auditor's report.

April Newsletter - African Women Lead the Way (English, French). Also - read more in-depth updates from Benin, Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda.

April 1: Joan Holmes appointed to UN Hunger Task Force. 

April 1: Activist call with Joan Holmes to launch the second quarter (text and recording).

March 8: International Women's Day in Bangladesh, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.

March Newsletter - Women and Philanthropy

February 17 - Women leaders create strategies in Assam, India.

February Monthly Newsletter - Women Animators in Bangladesh: Living the Principles of The Hunger Project

January 22-28: Bangladesh - Progress in Strengthening Local Democracy

January: Anti-Malaria Bed-Net Program Launched in Malawi (English, French)

January 6: Progress in West Africa - Trip Report from Dr. Fitigu Tadesse and Jennifer Thomson

January Monthly Newsletter - Expanding Our Impact!

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