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Ethiopia Ghana News Newsletter Zambia

You did it!

Thanks to the enthusiastic support of our iDE Canada community, WE’VE REACHED OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL OF $780k FOR ‘HER TIME TO GROW!‘ We needed your help to leverage a $7.8 million dollar grant from the Government of Canada, and donors like you came through in record time. The ‘Her Time to Grow’ project is well …

Andrea Wiebe

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Hamidatu’s idea, come to life!

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 …

Andrea Wiebe

Ghana Newsletter

Do You Dare?

The Polak Fund is risky. That’s the thing about big ideas. You don’t know if they’ll work or not until you test them. As Nadia Campos, iDE’s Director of Global Design says; the Polak Fund “was meant to support projects [and] experiments that other donors will never dare to do.” That’s why we are so …

iDE Canada

Ethiopia Ghana Newsletter Zambia

Creating Opportunities Together: How Your Generosity is Helping Women Grow Their Businesses

Your enthusiasm and support of the Her Time to Grow project has been inspiring! In just over one year, you have donated nearly 70% of the matching funds needed to see this project through its four-year implementation. That’s $527,996!! That is a HUGE accomplishment – THANK YOU! Another thing that’s needed to get big projects …

iDE Canada

Ethiopia Ghana Newsletter Zambia

Growing Together

Ired Chuumbwe, 46, is focused on growth, not only for herself and the five children she’s raising as a single mother, but also for her community. As a Farm Business Advisor, or FBA, she works with more than 200 farmers, providing women with training in Conservation Agriculture, post-harvest management, and food processing and preservation. These …

iDE Canada