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Powering entrepreneurs
to end poverty.

iDE Canada creates income and livelihood opportunities in developing countries around the world. We invest in local entrepreneurship, building businesses with a focus on agriculture and sanitation. With access to the right products, services and advice, farmers can transform their small farms into small businesses. With access to research and development, sanitation business owners can produce the life-saving products their customers want.

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There are moms around the world who are worrying about whether they have enough money to pay for necessities, including school fees. You can help ease this stress by making a donation today!

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Our Initiatives

Innovate for Impact

iDE’s founder, Paul Polak, practiced and preached the importance of starting with people. With your support, local iDE teams use Human Centered Design to engage deeply with the people and communities we serve.

Innovation Fund Projects

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Cambodia

| The Paul Polak Innovation Fund

Transform Smallholder Farming

Small-scale farmers grow 80% of the food available in rural areas but often live in poverty. Your support helps farmers increase their incomes by ensuring they have  access to markets, high-quality seed and affordable irrigation.

Agricultural Projects

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ETHIOPIA

| Agriculture resilience and dignity

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NEPAL

| Dealing with new pests

Three women's standing side-by-side in a farm field.
A women is making toilet seats in a rural area using clay and mud.

Stop Diarrhea

Diarrhea kills over half a million under-5 children every year – more than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV combined. Diarrhea deprives many millions of children of the nutrients they need to reach their full physical and mental potential.

Sanitation Projects

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GHANA

| Selling toilets to poor household


Recent News

  • How entrepreneurs in Vietnam are cleaning up plastic waste

    How entrepreneurs in Vietnam are cleaning up plastic waste

    Vietnam’s lush coastline and winding rivers draw millions each year — but look closer, and you’ll see grocery bags tangled in mangroves, plastic bottles drifting along canals, and shorelines littered with debris. Every year, an estimated 300,000 metric tons of plastic end up in waterways and beaches — that’s the equivalent of 30,000 garbage trucks…

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  • Your support is sweet like honey!

    Your support is sweet like honey!

    Your joyful support of Her Time to Grow is helping women in Ghana feel at ease trying a new, and slightly nerve-wracking way to earn income — beekeeping. Three white beehives sit in the shade beneath some trees in the rural village of Kalbeo. As you approach the hives, you can smell the sweetness of…

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  • The garbage truck is music to their ears!

    The garbage truck is music to their ears!

    The cheery jingle might make you think the ice cream truck is coming, but it’s actually a garbage truck — decorated with blue birds and pink flowering trees. The jingle signals it’s arrival. Before 2024, the rural people of Boribo district in central Cambodia didn’t have garbage pick-up. So, they resorted to burning, burying, or…

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  • Good things are brewing in Honduras

    Good things are brewing in Honduras

    We’ve teamed up with Bean Voyage, a nonprofit that helps female coffee farmers in Latin America. Together, we’re running a Coffee Quality Bootcamp. Through practical training, women are learning how to improve bean quality, find good buyers, and strengthen their place in an industry often dominated by men. We’ll train the participants on how to earn income through…

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Our Partners

iDE Canada creates income and livelihood opportunities in developing countries around the world. We invest in local entrepreneurship, building businesses with a focus on agriculture and sanitation.

We would like to thank the Government of Canada and Manitoba Council for International Cooperation for their generous financial support.


Your support reaches to all corners of the world.