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A pilot project to train women to cultivate and process organic hibiscus (Bio Bissap) was so successful that the program has been scaled up to now include 12 villages with 563 women, who now plow and maintain a combined total of 21 hectares.
Raja Mari is president of her village council. “Participating in The Hunger Project’s Women’s Leadership Workshop gave me self-confidence, motivation and courage,” she says. During her three years in office Raja has focused primarly on education and sanitation.
Meher Nazmun, known as Tisha, works with The Hunger Project-Bangladesh and the Youth Ending Hunger unit at her university to educate the impoverished families and children of her community. “Since becoming a youth leader, I have learnt a lot about life, a lot about social responsibility, and a lot about the importance of setting an example for others,” says Tisha.
Theresa Sekyere, a farmer in Ghana, explains that through The Hunger Project’s Microfinance Program and other training, she increased the size of her farm, and is now able to pay her children’s school fees.
Clelia Regina Rivero works with Chirapaq, The Hunger Project’s partner organization in Peru, to reclaim the rights and language of indigenous peoples in Peru.
A Hunger Project staff person and investor shares her experiences on a recent Investor Leadership Trip to Ghana. In the words of one investor, “THP and the epicenters shifted from a distant concept to something I now have inside of me. I got my heart filled with this trip and it will stay with me forever.”
Mrs. Bassine Kane has seven children and is the Chair of the Ndiollofen Village Women’s Organization in The Hunger Project’s Sam Contor Epicenter in Senegal. The results she achieved through her bio sorrel (organic hibiscus) farm helped to influence the local authorities’ commitment to award land to other village women’s organizations and increased women’s access to fertile land.
Comfort Aniniwa was used to the ups and downs of subsistence farming. She was unable to picture a brighter future for herself, or her family. When THP-Ghana gave her the skills, financial freedom and encouragement to start her own business, things started looking up. Now, Miss Comfort Abena Aniniwa is becoming more “comfortable” every day – truly living up to her name!
Celine Migan was struck by a debilitating injury while still a child. Too often in her society, this sort of handicap casts a dark shadow over the lives of its sufferers, robs them of their abilities, and dooms them to beg in the streets. However, with The Hunger Project in the picture, self-sufficiency and dignity are never far away. Read about how Ms. Migan works with THP-Benin’s Microfinance Program to defy grim statistics and succeed every day.