How you are helping ease the burden of life’s expenses. “It used to be when school fees came up, I’d start sweating. I had high blood pressure. Now I just ask, ‘how much?’” This confident quote is from Annie Muleba. She is a business owner from a small village in Zambia. Your care and generosity …
How your support is helping make bathroom facilities more affordable in rural Ghana. Hamidatu had an idea. Working in sales at iDE Ghana, she knew that buying a bathroom facility (a structure that includes the toilet, floor, walls, roof, etc.) was becoming too expensive for rural customers. That meant people weren’t getting access to safe …
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Meet Monowara Begum, a single mother of two and entrepreneur from Bangladesh. Through donors’ generous support, she was able to connect with iDE and got the education and training she needed to build a successful tailoring business. In her own words: “Now, I can take care of my family’s needs and send my children to …
Meet Chetan, a farmer from Nepal. Chetan runs a small farm. Like many farmers in his region, he faces a chronic shortage of fertilizer. Fertilizer he needs to help his dragon fruit trees grow and produce more fruit. With the support of iDE Canada donors through the Paul Polak Innovation Fund, three community-managed projects began …
Thursday May 11, 2023 The iDE Canada community had the pleasure of hearing from and engaging in discussion with Deepak Khadka, iDE’s vice president of Asia operations. Deepak brings over a decade plus technical and leadership experience in designing and implementing projects in Nepal focused on private sector market development, access to financial services for …
