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December 2006:
Matsekope epicenter gains bank recognition, the third epicenter in
Ghana where the women who run the bank have reached this milestone, and
the 15th in Africa. Also: see the updates submitted to the Global Board from our AWFFI program and country reports from Bangladesh, Benin, Boliia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Senegal and Uganda. |
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Valerie Harper received the AARP Impact award for her work with The Hunger Project. (Photo: AARP). |
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Joan Holmes, Kofi Annan, Peter Piot call for accountability and gender equality at World AIDS Day event in New York City organized by UNAIDS, St. Bartholomew's Church and The Hunger Project. Events also organized by The Hunger Project around the world, including in our newest epicenters in Mozambique. (Photo: UNAIDS) |
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November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is observed all over Bangladesh, thanks to action by the Girl Child Forum - the coalition of organizations catalyzed by The Hunger Project, initially around Girl Child Day but now taking action on a range of gender issues. |
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Joan Holmes outlines the five elements of the Scale-up Strategy at the October 23 meeting of the Global Board of Directors. "Scale-up has ramifications far beyond the Eastern Region of Ghana. It requires new organizational capabilities in program, fundraising and financial management, new levels of professionalism, and new expressions of leadership." |
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November Newsletter - Investing for Scale-up Financial planning this month? New legislation may offer significant savings for seniors. Ways to take action to expand our investor movement |
October 7, 2006: Human Chains Formed Across Bangladesh To Demand Reforms
October 2006 Newsletter - Scale-up: The Next Great Challenge
October 2, 2006: Minister hosts Sarojini Naidu Prize in New Delhi.
September 30, 2006: Highlights of National Girl Child Day, in Bangladesh and a new Girl Child Video!
September 2006 Country Updates: International Literacy Day in Uganda; AWFFI Successes in Mozambique; and Leadership in Senegal's Rural Banks
September 2006 Newsletter - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to Receive 2006 Africa Prize
September 2006: The Hunger Project's 2005 Annual Report (or click here to download the full report as a pdf file)
August 2006: Country Updates -- Super Savers in Ghana; The Hunger Project-Uganda featured in article in Donor News: Focus on Development; Cornerstone laid for first epicenter in Mozambique!; and Rural Banking in Burkina Faso
August 2006 Newsletter - India -- Five-Year Cycle of Empowerment
August 9: Hunger Project Women in Benin Display Financial Acumen
August 1: THP-Malawi HIV/AIDS program featured in Malawi News
July 2006: Photo Highlights from the July investor trip to Ghana
July 2006 Newsletter - What Works: Top-down or Bottom-up?
June 2006 Newsletter - Making Microfinance Work in Rural Africa
June 5: Federations of women leaders in Assam and Uttarachnal India issue demands for stronger local democracy
May 31: Great results in Ethiopia! Update from THP Global Office trip to Ethiopia.
May 28: Great Results in Uganda! Update from THP Global Office Trip to Uganda
May 19: Watch the film - "An Investor Trip to Burkina Faso"
May 17: Report to the Global Board of Directors by Joan Holmes
May 2006 Newsletter - The Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger
April 26: Great Results in Malawi!
April 26: Photos and trip report from the March 2006 investor trip to Burkina Faso
April 22: Bangladesh - Earth Day - 200,000 form "human chains" for clean government
April 19: My Trip to India and Bangladesh by Sasha S. Stomberg-Firestein.
April Events in Northern California with Lorena Vazquez
April 2006 Newsletter - Empowering Women and Men to End Their Own Hunger (html) or pdf version
March 30: Elected women representatives of Orissa share their accomplishments with the media
March 19: Media coverage of THP action for good governance in Bangladesh.
March 8: Mobilizing Thousands on International Women's Day in Bangladesh, India and Benin.
March 3: Joan Holmes' message on scale-up in Ghana
March Newsletter: Expressing Solidarity: Global Investors in Ethiopia
February 17: Photos from the recent investor trip to Ethiopia and the inauguration of the Jaldu Epicenter
February 6-11, 2006: Creating the intentions for 2006, review of strategy in Tsunami-affected villages.
February Newsletter: To Solve the Water Crisis -- Empower the People
February 8: Photos of Jaldu Epicenter in Ethiopia prior to the upcoming Inauguration Celebration
February 8: Fire ravages slum where THP works
January 24: Protecting against arsenic in Bangladesh
January 12: Joan Holmes keynotes Microsoft Women's Conference
January Newsletter: Gender Equality: Key to Every MDG
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