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Back in 2024, iDE excitedly welcomed Support Her Enterprise — aka SHE — into the fold. SHE is a Cambodian organization that specializes in providing business training to female entrepreneurs. Women in Cambodia struggle to access and benefit from business training. There aren’t many networks to connect them, and business training isn’t tailored to their …
Cambodia Paul Polak Innovation Fund
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 …
Cambodia News Newsletter Paul Polak Innovation Fund
We’re very excited to announce the first ever Polak Fund Ignite awardee! This award ($340k) was given to a Cambodian team working toward improving garbage collection and disposal solutions in rural Cambodia. It is thanks to your generous donations that Polak Fund awards like this are available to innovators around the world. Approximately 75% of …
Bangladesh Cambodia Ethiopia News
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 …
Have you ever been nervous about trying something new? Did you have a safety-net in place if something didn’t go as planned? Since 2021, your support has been providing a safety-net for innovators and entrepreneurs through iDE’s Paul Polak Innovation Fund. Thanks to your generous donations, the Polak Fund has distributed 50 awards in 11 …
