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Not Just Potatoes Anymore!

How your generosity has multiplied 20x for female farmers in Ethiopia After two years of no international travel, we were so excited to be back in Ethiopia. We met with a special group of women who iDE brought together to grow seed potatoes for income in 2014. iDE hasn’t been involved with them for the …

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Her Time To Grow, Indeed!

How caring people like you helped raise $60,774.58 to help women grow their agricultural businesses and earn more money! Even with challenges like global conflict, drought, supply chain issues and unequal access to land, money, information and technology, female farmers in Ethiopia, Ghana and Zambia are STILL growing. Learning. Succeeding. That’s because this year, generous …

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A Fair Deal for Farmers in Mozambique

Flora Mostiço is an entrepreneur selling seeds, tools and other agricultural supplies in Mozambique. She started her business several years ago with just $3 that she used to buy two crates of tomatoes for resale in the local market. With some training from iDE, she built her business and became a farm business advisor – …

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Fighting The Shecession

iDE doubles down on women’s economic empowerment in the face of pandemic Several new words have joined our vocabulary, thanks to COVID-19. One of the most ominous is “shecession,” which describes women bearing the brunt of pandemic family care while trying to keep working. Experts fear the adverse economic impact of the virus on women …

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Success Made Possible By You

A Healthy Business iDE’s Hydrologic Social Enterprise celebrates 10 years of bringing clean water to everyday Cambodians Imagine living in a rural village in Cambodia, miles away from the nearest road. From where do you obtain safe water to drink? You send your daughters to collect water from the local lake, pond, well, or rainwater …

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