By Julie Dugdale (@julie_dugdale) If you’re like billions of people on the planet, you get up in the morning, go to work to provide for your family, and come home at night with something for dinner. Your picture might be framed a little differently, but the details boil down to the same thing: livelihood. A […]
It sounds like a brutally disturbing nightmare: Alone in a forest miles from home, a teenage girl fights off a man as he tries to rape her. She flees home in terror, hours on foot, afraid for her life. The next day, the scene repeats itself as she is forced to collect firewood again. Facing […]
Interview by Ali Shlom How do villagers protect their livelihoods and communities when the land they have relied on for decades gets stripped away? That’s exactly what Justine Reed, Global Greengrants’ Vice President and Executive Director of Global Greengrants Fund / UK & Europe, went to Kenya to understand. What major issues are grantees in […]
By Nnimmo Bassey, Global Greengrants Fund Board Chair and Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation On the 10th of November 1995, twenty years ago today, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni patriots were hanged by the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha following a kangaroo trial that received world-wide condemnation. Ken Saro-Wiwa’s activities prior […]
The Athi River is Kenya’s second longest waterway and one of its most endangered. Violet Matiru knows grassroots grants can help. A grant advisor in East Africa, Violet is strategically directing Greengrants to riverside communities. Her goal: to support the health of the entire river basin, one community at a time. “Once we can […]
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