Categorized as: About us, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Affordable housing, Huffington Post, Microloans, Nicaragua, Slums, WCCN on August 8, 2015.
A typical “precarious” home in the Managua slums. Editor’s Note: This summer, our director, Suzanne Skees, traveled to Nicaragua with Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN). She discovered that her childhood dream of everyone having access to...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantees, Latin America, Legacy Partners
Description: The Cooperative for Education works to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. They provide educational resources and opportunities to indigenous Mayan schoolchildren in Guatemala’s Central and Western Highlands. They have created...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories & Tagged as: CGAP, Freedom from hunger, Impact, Resilience diaries on July 4, 2015.
The resilience diaries: Our long-term partner, Freedom from Hunger, uses journaling to understand the role of financial products in resiliency, hunger, and wellbeing of rural households in Burkina Faso, West Africa. By Megan Gash and Bobbi Gray for CGAP. This post...Read more