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Listen to Exec VP John Coonrod: Empowering Women at Every Level

Our Executive Vice President, John Coonrod, was a guest on the weekly radio show Green Hour. He explains why The Hunger Project's women-led strategy to reducing hunger and poverty is crucial to reaching the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and points to Malawi...

THP-Uganda Epicenters Move Toward Self Reliance

THP-Malawi inaguarated microfinance institutions at two of its epicenters and hosted monitoring and evaluation officers from several THP Africa countries for a learning visit. In addition, several epicenters undertook income generating activities like hall and chair hire services and planted orange fresh sweet potatoes to serve as demonstration plots and seed multiplication sites.

THP-Malawi Completes New Epicenter

THP-Malawi finished the construction of Majete Epicenter. Several staff undertook learning visits to partner countries and HIV/AIDS animators were trained in new workshops focused on the factors in the spread of HIV.

THP-Mexico Expands to Four States

In Oaxaca, THP-Mexico, with community partners, installed ecological stoves, dry latrines and rainwater collection cisterns. THP-Mexico also coninued its work towards empowering youth by inviting youth calalysts from Zacatecas to a centralized animator training in Mexico City

THP-Bangladesh Secures Local Government Commitment to MDG Achievement

THP-Bangladesh has established partnerships with 24 more communities who became part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) unions, committed to achieving the MDGs at the local level. THP-Bangladesh also held meetings across the country, engaging over 34,000 community members, on the topic of stopping early marriages and launched a pilot program to provide youth with tools and opportunities for building professional skills.

THP-Burkina Celebrate New Epicenter

THP-Burkina inaugurated the Boulkon Epicenter in the presence of several high-level THP staff and local government officials. THP-Burkina also continued its work in food security and women’s empowerment, centering around the 1000 Days Initiative.

The Hunger Project-Ghana Completes Several Construction Projects

THP-Ghana inaugurated a new nursery school at Toku Epicenter; Adomfe Epicenter’s cocoa and oil-palm seedlings were transplanted into the field and began to generate income; and Fesi-Bame Epicenter, through a partnership with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, acquired 450 bags of government subsidized fertilizers to be sold to partner farmers to boost production.

THP-Ethiopia Epicenter Savings & Credit Receives Award

THP-Ethiopia Jaldu Epicenter, Gudatu Saving & Credit Cooperative (SACCO) received accolades for mobilizing the most women members. The Machakel Epicenter’s clinic welcomed government health employees and Debre Libanos Epicenter completed 6 hang-dug wells. THP-Ethiopia also continued to expand its capacity building programs to beekeeping.

THP-India Strengthens Capacity of Elected Women Leaders

THP-India incorporated the issues of food security and malnutrition into the work of the Elected Women Representatives in the five THP-India states with the highest levels of malnutrition. In addition, various workshops for women were held throughout the country on topics, informing women about government processes and their rights, and THP-India contributed to the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

THP-Benin Partners with Dutch on Epicenter Strategy

THP-Benin signed an agreement with the Dutch Ministry to implement the Epicenter Strategy over a four-year period. The Klouékanmè Epicenter was inaugurated in the presence of HP-Netherlands investors, district authorities, local chiefs and the Katakle group.

Gender First

This piece, by Hunger Project Executive Vice President John Coonrod, was originally featured on Local First. Every issue that Local First hopes to address is fundamentally a gender issue. Deeply entrenched gender discrimination is not merely a factor in poverty,...

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