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One Hope Ahead
IDEX Program Officer, Katherine Zavala, recently traveled to Mexico to spend time in the field with our grantees there. I met up with Javier and Jose, staff of EduPaz, in Comitan, Chiapas to visit...
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One Woman’s Hope, and a Cow, Transform a Family
Patrociña has recently expanded her business. She now makes cheese and grows plots of local organic chayote squash. Photo: Marlon García When Patrociña Cristal Ventura first heard from a neighbor about...
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Meet Elvira Sanchez, Grassroots Leader from IDEX Partner in Guatemala
Elvira Sanchez Toscano helped to found Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty (ISMU) – an IDEX partner in Guatemala – over a decade ago together with community groups in the urban shantytowns of...
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Advancing Goals, Transforming Lives
“Before, women were not considered credit-worthy but this process has helped.” Hiri Dangi with her buffalo. Hiri Dangi of the Uthalamata Self-Help Group, Sahyog Could you transform you life with a few...
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Photo of the Week 3/31/14
An IDEX partner since 1995, ISMU, the Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty, was formed by community groups in the shantytowns of Guatemala City to improve living conditions in their neighborhoods....
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Photo of the Week 5/20/14
Educación por la Paz, or “EduPaz” (meaning Education for Peace) has been an IDEX partner since 2007. EduPaz originally provided health-related services and economic development to Guatemalan refugees...
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Photo of the Week 6/18/14
Women’s Awareness Center Nepal (WACN), an IDEX partner since 2004, empowers women throughout 5 districts of Nepal by starting savings and credit groups and cooperatives. Today, there are over 40...
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Photo of the Week 7/28/14
GRAVIS, an organization founded by Gandhian activists, focuses on creating self-reliant village communities among the Thar Desert peoples in Rajasthan, India. GRAVIS’s approach focuses on social...
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Rajiv’s Rejuvenating Remedy for Resilience
Today Rajiv Khanna, IDEX’s Director of Learning and Evaluation, shares with us his special beverage recipe that he says is “resiliency in a cup.” “The knowledge of the magic of turmeric comes from my...
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Rebuilding a broken economic system
Now more than ever, we are drawing inspiration from our fearless partners who rise up each and every day. However hopeless we may feel at times, our partners show us that we have tremendous power when...
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